Fundred Dollar Bill Project
Presented by 21c Museum in Partnership with LVAA Open Doors Program
Art is "about making possibilities, making choices – and that is one of the
last freedoms we have. To provide that is one of the functions of art."
—Mel Chin
This is your chance to get involved in a nationwide project with
an acclaimed contemporary artist that raises awareness about health risks of environmental
damage.
The soil in New Orleans is contaminated with lead. It affects 86,000 properties
in the urban area, and is especially harmful to the inner city youth who live in
this region. There is a plan to de-toxify it and remove any health risks to the
community. It will cost $300,000,000.00.
Contemporary artist Mel Chin has a plan to raise this money and it involves everyone
across the country. The Fundred Dollar Bill Project invites you to make your own
hand-drawn $100 Fundred Dollar Bill. 3,000,000 of these will be collected by the
project in a veggie-oil powered armored truck and taken to the steps of Congress
and asked for an equal exchange of money to clean the New Orleans soil.
You can make an $100 Fundred Dollar Bill and be part of a nation-wide
public art project that will bring awareness to an environmental/health catastrophe
in New Orleans.
Download and print the double-sided pdf with a Fundred and instructions here.
Submit your Fundred to the 21c Museum Hotel and make plans to come
Tuesday, April 13 for Mel Chin's Artist Talk and Fundred Collection
About
the Artist
Mel Chin is motivated by political, cultural, and social circumstances. Previous
work has included Revival Field of 1990 aside a landfill in St. Paul, Minnesota
where special plants that would extract heavy metals from the toxic soil – a project
that was intended to bring the conceptual realization of the scientific process
through art. Chin visited the city of Louisville in May of 2007 and spoke at the
New Center for Contemporary Art discussing recent work and introduced the Fundred
Dollar Bill Project to the local community.
The Fundred Dollar Bill Project requests that only one Fundred Dollar Bill is submitted
per person. Children and students are encouraged to participate.
Currently Showing
Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War
Kara Walker
in Gallery 2, off the Atrium
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Faces of Fooshegu
Lindsay Cameron
November 2009
in Gallery 1, off the Atrium
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Emergence
Julius Friedman
January - August 2010
in the Atrium Hallway Gallery
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Wheel of Fortune
Anne Peabody
June - October 2010
in the Atrium Gallery
Exhibited in conjunction with the
2010 GAS (Glass Art Society) Conference
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Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes
July 2 - October 4, 2010
in the Street Level Gallery
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New Acquisitions and Highlights
August 6, 2010 - January 15, 2012
Atrium Gallery
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