Earthbound Moon
Artists
Earthbound Moon will offer hundreds of artists an opportunity to create site-specific public sculpture. We are looking for sculptures that are integrally situated in the communities they inhabit. Artists will be expected to design and install their works with the ethos and history of the community in mind. We firmly believe that without such engagement in the community we would be enacting the same hubris we are condemning in business.

Asking artists to take such care with site-specificity creates a bond between the work, the common space we are declaring and each individual community. Beyond this, by inviting artists from around the world, and building a sculpture garden that spreads across the Earth while embracing local site-specificity, Earthbound Moon creates a sense of each communities place within the larger whole of the species and life on Earth. Enhancing the challenge of site-specificity for artists, we expect the works to be rigorously contemporary. We are curious how contemporary artists will engage the challenge of creating contemporary works that are safe enough to be installed publicly.
Heidi Hove
Bledsoe, TX

2010 | Bledsoe, Texas

Heidi Hove was born in Denmark in 1976 and currently lives and works in Copenhagen. She graduated at Funen Art Academy (DK) in 2007 and has been studying one year (05/06) at the MFA program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco (US). Furthermore, she is co-director of the exhibition site, Koh-i-noor in Copenhagen and the artist-apartment and residency, The Berlin Office in Kreuzberg, Berlin.

Jonathan Whitfill
Portland, OR

2010 | Portland, Oregon

Jonathan Whitfill received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Texas Tech University in sculpture and three-dimensional art. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Wayland Baptist University. Mr. Whitfill has taught art appreciation and three-dimensional design for the department of art at Texas Tech. Among his numerous awards are the 2007 Best of Show Juried Show in Bloomington, Indiana for his work “Wheels.” He sculpture has been exhibited throughout West Texas. His performance art has been shown in the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center . Mr Whitfill recently exhibited work at Art Vitam Galerie Europ'Art in Aigues Mortes, France, and was selected to participate in SANOFI's Library Conference and Exhibition in Montpellier, France.

Carol Anne McChrystal

2011 | Kilauea, Hawaii

Carol Anne McChrystal graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with degrees in studio art and gender studies. Her work uses meaningless symbols, established formalities and stylistic reiteration in historical sculpture. As a means to examine limitations of how we organize and understand knowledge structures, her work topically engages the myth of youth subculture. She is the author of "Cliffs Notes on Art School Rhetoric," and "You Have No Power You Have No Power," which both investigate the relationship between theory and the practice of contemporary art. As a representative of her MFA program at the California College of the Arts, she won an award for most reasoned vision at the 2005 Grad School debates. She is currently working with Keturah-Anne Cummings on "The Diana Project," a NightmareCity publication.

Taha Belal
Crete, Greece

2010 | Crete, Greece

In recent work I have distorted and abstracted selections from the newspaper. I see the newspaper as a tangible marker of time and an excerpt from the deluge of information created and disseminated. It is a source where material, text and images are produced daily. I'm interested in how the newspaper (through stories and pictures) is fundamental in shaping ideas of places and events, and the reductive nature of such information.