CowParade Artists Lab Opens at Liberty Station for Public Viewing

NTC Foundation invites the community to come out on Saturday, August 9 from noon to 2 p.m. for the launch of Artist of the Day program at the CowParade Artists Lab located at 2855 Perry Rd. This is an opportunity to observe artists working onsite.

There is no charge for admission. Enter Liberty Station from Lytton Ave through the historic Gate 1. Free parking is available in the lot at Perry and Historic Decatur.

CowParade San Diego will feature 200 life-sized fiberglass cows transformed by artists from San Diego and Tijuana and displayed at San Diego’s premier outdoor locations for three months – January through March, 2009. Local businesses, hotels, restaurants and retailers will sponsor the cows individually or in multiple cow “herds.”

An auction of the top 50 cows — to be held at the end of the exhibition — will raise funds to benefit Rady Children’s Hospital, The Zoological Society of San Diego and the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership.

 

CowParade San Diego will reach out to local students during its three month run. School children will participate in a design competition that will give many their first exposure to the creative process and allow them to create their own “minimoo” cows — perfect miniatures of the full-sized versions — for public display.