Past Event
Thursday, June 30, 2016, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Porcella in China
3205 Olive Street, Lemon Grove, 91945
Age Limit: 21+
Cost: Free
A discussion of artist Don Porcella’s debut in Shanghai, China, where he was commissioned by French couturier Hermès to design four windows for their new flagship store featuring his trademark pipe-cleaner creatures (golden monkeys, penguins, flamingos, deer, birds) in a four-season environment. The installation is called The Great Hall of Nature, and each window is named after a famous caretaker of nature: John Muir, Jane Goodall, Jacques Cousteau, and Charles Darwin.
The zoo was made in Lemon Grove on the heels of Porcella’s debut at the Parsonage Museum. See and hear the backstory from Porcella and Samantha Wilson (studio chief of Don Porcella Studio) amid “bubbly, beaucoup toasts.”