Circle of Bees operates within artistic, educational, and scientific scopes. We produce utlitiarian folk art, living classroom experience, and techno-scientific experiments, illuminating the human experience of wild natural ecology in sub/urban space. We are one piece of the permaculture revolution, exciting peaceful agrarian renaissance and rewilding in towns and cities.
Circle of Bees is premised on the idea that a corporation can not only be an artwork, but a good one. We mingle elements of corporate and collective identity, with high individualism, progressive action, production machinery, folk art, sub/urban ecology, ancient apicultural practice, new technology, and many other elements in freeform, similar to the way an AbEx painter mingles paint.
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Pictured is Charmer Paul Bugni helping to install "
Resurrection Cycle" in Central Park Davis, April 19-21, 2019.
100 Hives Davis is a utilitarian artwork and public service focused on the management of honeybee swarms in city space. In 2019, 77 swarm capture hives toured the city with installations at Central Park and the Davis Food Co-op. parks and backyards across Davis. Read more about 100 Hives Davis.
Many thanks to City of Davis office of Art and Cultural Affairs, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, and Davis Ace Hardware for generous grants for 100 Hives project.
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Read more about The PolliNation.
The PolliNation is an ambitious artwork for 2021 and beyond.
It is focused native pollinators in city space and will feature a major public art spectacle.
More we cannot say or we will spoil the fun.
However, The PolliNation the artwork includes a number of radical/cautious transformative action items for Davis. Most immediately we are working with city officials and like-minded organizations on a 3rd Street Community Thoroughfare, to transform 3rd street into a automobile-free (excepting emergency and commercial vehicles), citizen-friendly passage from the University to the railroad tracks. Read more about The PolliNation.
Included in the The PolliNation artwork are a number of radical/cautious transformative action items. Most immediately we are working with city officials and like-minded organizations on a 3rd Street Community Thoroughfare, to transform 3rd street into a automobile-free (excepting emergency and commercial vehicles), citizen-friendly passage from the University to the railroad tracks.
Read more about The PolliNation .
Thanks
Circle of Bees has been so lucky to be nurtured by a growing community of folks that have supported our mission throughout the years. Some of these include ...
Many thanks to City of Davis office of Art and Cultural Affairs, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, and Davis Ace Hardware for generous grants for 100 Hives project.
Yolo County District 2 Supervisor Don Saylor and City of Davis Chief Innovation Officer Diane Paro
CoolDavis
Sacramento Beecharmers and Rachel Morrison
The Davis Food Co-op
The Niño Lab
Tree Davis
Donna Billick and the Billick Rock Apiary
Farm Davis and Farm 2.6 and Cloverleaf Farm
Tuleyome
Restoration Landscaping by Billy Krimmel
Davis Dollars and Nick Barry
Leslie Crenna of EcoAssistant and the good people of WaterWise