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Artists Embrace Nature in Post-Industrial Landscape

Posted by: Jeffrey Goodman
Thanks to: Jeffrey Goodman
18 June 2004 - 1:00pm

Under a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation, artists are investigating and preserving the way in which nature reclaims abandoned industrial areas.

As Pittsburgh’s industrial glory days fade from memory, the rusting and disused factories are attracting a new collective of artists interested in how nature slowly rids itself of manmade structures. In the abandoned refuse of a changed economy, wildlife and nature have returned.

Full Story: Artists look at nature's way of reclaiming industrial sites
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 16, 2004
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