Creative Sonoma hosted an online conversation to introduce artist Cliff Garten. photo credit: courtesy of Creative SonomaArtist Cliff Garten speaks during an introduction video hosted by Creative Sonoma.
Nearly a decade after the 2017 Tubbs Fire destroyed thousands of homes and killed over 20 people in Sonoma County, an artist has been selected to create a community memorial.
An online conversation with artist Cliff Garten was hosted by Creative Sonoma earlier this month. Fire Memorial Project Manager Karin Demarest says Garten was chosen from over 80 applications.
“He has an MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard. So he’s not just thinking about an object, he’s thinking about the entire place – how people move through it, how they gather, how they experience it over time. And his projects become spaces people can enter, not just something that they look at,” said Demarest…