“Where Have All the Birds Gone?”
An award-winning sculptor’s “Where Have All the Birds Gone?”, now on display in the town’s main square, will be celebrated October 17 with a collaborative environmental art event and reception.
Food, Drinks, and Music — Families and Pets Invited!!
The town of Fairfax is proud to celebrate the work of one of their own – Marguerite Elliot, an internationally recognized Fairfax Environmental Artist – with an event that focuses on creative collaboration through art.
Tables will be set up with art supplies, where Marguerite will invite students and children of all ages to draw or make posters about their concerns, hopes and dreams for our environment, which will be displayed at the site.
As she puts it, “I want this to be a collaborative event, as I strongly feel that the health of our planet is in the hands of today's youth.”
Fairfax Mayor Bruce Ackerman plans to join us at the event and say a few words.
As the Mayor puts it, “This work serves profoundly, as art must, to bring the invisible to light. As the birds slowly go quiet, we can be distracted by our own noise and not realize what we ourselves are causing.”
"Where have all the birds gone?"
Marguerite’s sculpture brings attention to the 3 million birds we have lost in the past 50 years due to man-made causes. She often draws on a quote from author Rachel Carson in her book Silent Spring: “On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices, there was now no sound…”
The Fairfax October 17 community event invites all to express their thoughts about the environment and honor our beloved birds, in a fun, collaborative way.
ABOUT MARGUERITE ELLIOT:
Marguerite Elliot is an award-winning multi-media sculptor who works primarily in welded steel. Throughout her later career, she has used her artwork to address issues of environmental fragility, preservation, and interconnectedness in a continually industrializing world. Her work has been exhibited widely across the U.S. Her large- scale sculptures are installed in sculpture parks in Finland, Denmark and New York. Her earlier work is archived at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Marguerite welcomes visitors to her Fairfax studio to see and discuss her current projects.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Marguerite Elliot
Phone: 415-497-6028
Email: marguerite.elliot@gmail.com
Instagram: @marguerite101