What's it all about?
Bees pollinate 1/3 of our food supply and they are dying at alarming rates. Haven is a nationwide art installation intended to help reverse this trend. A network of one thousand specially designed beehives will replace diminishing habitat for wild honeybees, and enable the collection of valuable field data for researchers.
How it works
Thanks to a second round of Rocket Grant funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation, administered by the Charlotte Street Foundation and the Spencer Museum of Art, Haven has developed a hive monitor prototype that can wirelessly transmit data from internal hive sensors to Haven’s website. Haven’s sensors began gathering data in a hive at the […]
Swarms, bee trees, and Haven hives are mapped for future reference. As data accumulates we will look for patterns indicating where wild populations are thriving and what the key environmental features of those areas may be.
With the installation of 1,000 hives across the country HAVEN will not only be helping to reverse the trend of habitat loss but will encourage local communities to preserve additional habitat and provide good forage. When complete, Haven will be the first nationwide honeybee sanctuary and an unprecedented research tool.
What Haven is up to...
Rocket Grant!
I gave a short acceptance lecture about Haven at the Charlotte Street Foundation Rocket Grant award ceremony. This grant funding will allow me to develop a prototype hive monitoring device that will stream internal data from Haven hives right to the website. Image courtesy of the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas.
The Kansas City Zoo gets a Haven hive
On your next visit to the KC Zoo, stop by and check out the new Haven hive opposite the Discovery Barn. The bees were all abuzz for a day or two while they were resetting their GPS, but now their attention has turned to nectar hunting and pollinating the zoo’s flowering trees and shrubs.
Private installation in Brookside
Commissioned by the homeowner and designer of a gorgeous modular container home in Brookside. Both yards and the roof are filled with edible plants.
deCordova Sculpture Park
A long weekend idea if you’re in the Boston area: Haven is at the deCordova! Along with works by Carl Andre, Paul Mccarthy, Sol Lewitt, Jaume Plensa, Jim Dine, Dan Graham, Antony Gormley, NamJune Paik and Ursula VonRydingsvard — pretty sweet company for Haven to be keeping.
Haven in Hyde Park
Thanks to the Friends of Hyde Park for generously commissioning this one for the whole neighborhood to enjoy!
Kauffman Memorial Garden
It was a crystal clear day in late fall when the KCMO Parks Department helped instal this privately commissioned Haven for the Kauffman Memorial Garden.
Want to fund a hive?
Use the PayPal link below to make a donation toward the growth of the Haven network or head over to the contact page and send an email to discuss commissioning a Haven hive for yourself or public installation.
Please reach out through the contact page if you’d like to support Haven using cryptocurrency.
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