Dana Albany: Dreaming in Metal and Glass
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Dana Albany has come a long way since her first art project in the Black Rock Desert, a scrap-wood camel that got her started making things out of found materials, from discarded metal and broken glass to sun-bleached cattle bones and deer antlers. She has built flammable targets for notorious machine-art groups, worked as the artist-in-residence at a San Francisco dump, and had her large-scale metal and mixed-media sculptures exhibited around the world, most recently at the “Radical Horizons” show at England’s Chatsworth House. She talks with Stuart about her path to becoming an artist, which began at Burning Man in 1996, about her mentors and mentees along the way, and about the joys of working with children to create high-impact interactive art.
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