An artwork, a symbol, and instrument for a green future.
Urban Air transforms...
...existing billboards into...
...bamboo gardens and global nodes.
The steel and wood of billboards will become the infrastructure of urban sustainability in cities around the globe.
Urban Air has inspired a team of professionals committed to its realization.
Urban Air — actively, publicly, and collectively generating a green global future.
Nels Cline + Urban Air: Elevated is an all-star event on 4/28/13 in Los Angeles, benefiting the Urban Air project as well as SHFT Mobile Kitchen Classroom.
Wilco's Nels Cline, named on both Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists" and "Top 20 Modern Rock Gods" lists, joins childhood friend and choreographer/director/dancer Sarah Elgart for an one-of-a-kind performance on loftSEVEN Penthouse's Downtown Los Angeles rooftop. The collaboration headlines a dynamic night of music, dance, and art. VIP tickets include a pre-show reception starting at 6:30 pm with Nels and Urban Air artist Stephen Glassman, plus complimentary gourment bites and cocktails. All tickets include complimentary beer and wine. Must be 21+ to attend.
Mobile Kitchen Classroom is a new nonprofit organization launched by Peter Glatzer and
Adrian Grenier's SHFT that seeks to provide high school students with the opportunity to engage in experiential lessons around food, health, and sustainability.
LA-based sculptor Stephen Glassman first caught international attention in the early 1990's when he began creating freeform, large-scale bamboo installations in urban sites devastated by the Rodney King Riots, Malibu Fires and Northridge Quake. These works became local community symbols of resiliency as well as a springboard for the permanent, award winning projects he creates today — art for art's sake in a social context. Urban Air sprung directly from those siteworks. Immediately upon its debut, the tangibility of Urban Air inspired the collaboration of key vanguard professionals committed to achieve it as a reality. Urban Air achieved global recognition in 2011 with the winning of a London International Creativity Award.
