ELandF Gallery

Kudos to local "small project accelerator" ELandF Gallery for continuously instigating quirky community projects. I was sold from my first encounter, in July of last year : a classified ad in ACE Weekly seeking to hire mourners to publicly grieve over the loss of "The Dame block," which was torn down to make way for the CentrePointe debacle.

Since then, ELandF (which is basically Bruce Burris of Latitude Artist Community, a community that encourages people with perceived disabilities to create art) has initiated lots of fun, off-the-wall public art projects - including poetry readings in public buses and nursing homes; inviting folks to decorate the "last kiosk in Lexington"; selecting public readers to read their favorite book in a parking lot, to name a few.


Latitude Artist Community's Frankenstein Music Park was the brainchild of ELandFGallery's Bruce Burris. They set this tent, which had 100 records and a record player inside, at Parking Day as well as the Boomslang Carnival.

Now they've gone and hired 3 people to publicly watch clouds (yes, these people actually get paid). This is going down tomorrow from 12- 1 near Wine + Market (2nd & Jefferson Streets).

You've still got a chance to participate in the next ELandF Gallery project: Share a taxi with Lexington Vice Mayor Jim Gray. The selected participant, sure enough, gets a scenic bluegrass ride in a taxi with the Vice-Mayor. For more details (and archives of past events), visit their blog here.

Again, thumbs up to Burris and ELandF for imparting some weirdness to our humble town.