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 Excerpted from www.voiceofsandiego.org
A Sculptor's Natural Habitat: The Elfin Forest
To find sculptor Anne Mudge, you need to travel far from the arty enclaves of San Diego's Little Italy or East Village and drive all the way to Elfin Forest, a rural community outside Escondido's city limits.
Mudge shares a trailer next to a seed farm with her husband, nurseryman Gilbert Foerster, and their dog, a border collie mix named Bandit. Her small trailer home and art studio — 600 square feet and 400 square feet, respectively — are nestled toward the end of a rutted dirt road, surrounded by fields and hills. There's no street sign. No traffic, either.
"I sometimes go for days without talking to outsiders," Mudge says. Mudge, 59, describes herself as a hermit. Yet she makes public art, as well as works seen in museums and galleries. There's a contrast, even a contradiction, between the isolated way she lives and the collaborative process required for public art. And an enormous difference between where she lives and the gritty urban places where her art is installed. The contrast energizes her." Visit Anne's profile page or Read the full article online at VoiceOfSanDiego.org.
Excerpted from foothillsextension.org
With six new stations in five cities coming your way in 2015, we wanted to introduce you to the process by which the Authority selected the artists that will make each station unique. This 15-minute video explains the role of public art in existing Gold Line Stations (from Union Station to Pasadena) as well as provides an overview of the themes and elements of the art that will be integrated into the stations along the Foothill Extension from Pasadena to Azusa. Visit Robin's profile page or watch the video.
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