Posts Tagged: Mark Rivera

'Life in the Hive': Bee-utiful Art

It’s all about the bees, the garden and the art. The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program is installing mosaic ceramic panels on cement planters at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden on Bee Biology Road, west of...

Multiple hands at work on the mosaic ceramic panels. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Multiple hands at work on the mosaic ceramic panels. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Self-described "rock artist" Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Self-described "rock artist" Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Artists Diane Ullman and Mark Rivera. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Artists Diane Ullman and Mark Rivera. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This art depicts "before" and "after": "before" when the man was deathly afraid of bees, and "after," when he developed admiration. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This art depicts "before" and "after": "before" when the man was deathly afraid of bees, and "after," when he developed admiration. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The life cycle of the honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The life cycle of the honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Artists Donna Billick, Diane Ullman and Mark Rivera. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Artists Donna Billick, Diane Ullman and Mark Rivera. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Unwrapped!

For more than a week, tarps protected the art from the elements. The artists would work on the installation daily, then stop and cover the art, resuming only when weather permitted.   The site: the half-acre Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee...

Beneath these weather-protective tarps: bee-box pillars. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Beneath these weather-protective tarps: bee-box pillars. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey

Entomologist/artist Diane Ullman uncovers a pillar. In the foreground, a bee sculpture created by colleague Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomologist/artist Diane Ullman uncovers a pillar. In the foreground, a bee sculpture created by colleague Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Today was a cold, blustery day but the pillars gleamed in the sunlight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Today was a cold, blustery day but the pillars gleamed in the sunlight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This work, showing the developmental stages of a worker honey bee, is by artist Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This work, showing the developmental stages of a worker honey bee, is by artist Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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