[Vision2020] new public art in Moscow

[Bill London]

Local Artist Uses Recycled Agricultural Metal in Public Art Sculpture at the Moscow Food Co-op




A new public art sculpture made entirely of recycled agricultural metal is now on display outside the Moscow Food Co-op on the wall facing the Co-op parking lot. The artwork, created by local artist Lori Hay of Tekoa Wash., depicts compostable material added to the Co-op's giant Earth Tub composter, which is then put back in the earth to grow food.




Hay, whose artwork celebrates agricultural life, uses recycles scrap metal from her fifth-generation farm and other farms in the area in all of her artwork. (http://lorihay.smxus.com/).




The Co-op's Earth Tub, named "Eartha," began making compost on November 28, 2007 and is the Palouse region's first commercial composting machine. The giant composter-measuring four feet tall, eight feet in diameter, and three cubic yards in volume-is turning the Co-op's biodegradable waste into garden-ready compost, which will divert more than 20 tons of compostable material from the local landfill each year (approximately 100-150 pounds a day). 




The Earth Tub, a demonstration project funded by a grant for $15,000 from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was purchased and installed through a partnership between the Moscow Food Co-op, the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute (PCEI), and Moscow Recycling. The public sculpture was purchased and installed as part of the EPA grant. 




The Co-op is located at 121 East Fifth Street in downtown Moscow.



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