Public Project

The project’s meaning is to educate the people around Onondaga Lake of the history of the Onondagan’s as well as their history with the lake.

The project is a festival where we will invite the Onondagans to teach people about their tribe as well as booths set up to educate the people about Onondaga Lake’s pollution

I want to work in the site we chose because I believe that pollution is a serious matter that needs to be attended to. By educating these people we could help the environment and future generations of human beings

The history of the site is interesting. First you have the Five Nations (five native American tribes grouped together) and the lake was in both the Onondaga Nation and the Oneida Nation. Of course our main focus is the pollution that has occurred in the lake since the late 1800’s. Sewage, as well as toxic materials from plants around Onondaga Lake polluted the lake. However clean-up has begun, although it is slow. The Onondaga tribe also believes that not enough is being done to clean up the site.

This site is appropriate because it is outdoors and a lake with a lot of shoreline to use. By staging the festival here we can show the people what the lake could be like if we can clean it up. Showing the lake and showing its pollution by actually having people there would increase how the people would be affected by what they learned.

It is an integration because we are integrating Onondaga Lake and the Onondaga tribe. Also we are attempting to show the people what is happening to Onondaga Lake through teaching them be about it.

I believe that Onondaga Lake is public property, however we would have to ask the Onondaga tribe to aid us.

This piece will fit in with the surroundings because it will be about the lake and its clean up. The festival will attempt to honor the Lake and its surroundings.

Valery’s Ankle, by Brett Kashmere. Although the medium we will use will be different the point is the same. He attempted to point out a problem he saw, and so are we. While he got people questioning the violence in hockey, so do we want people to question if enough is being done to clean up Onondaga Lake, and to inform them of its true past, just as Brett attempted dispel the myth of hockey’s history in Canada.

The goal of the project is to inform people of the pollution at Onondaga Lake, as well as educate them about the Lake’s history. Hopefully people will step up and take action to clean up the lake.

It is tough to measure success this way. As long as people come away from the festival having learned something new it will be a success. It will definitely be a success if people find a way to help clean up the lake. The target audience are the people who live around Onondaga Lake. They are everyone from the blue-collar workers, to rich CEO’s. They care about their well-being as well as their family’s well-being. We want them to react a little shocked at the fact that the lake is still as dirty. They should also understand what is being done and what other procedures could be done to clean up the lake.

Our audience should interact physically and mentally. They should see the polluted water talk with those who know about the lake, smell the air around Onondaga Lake. They will be at Onondaga Lake and they should see what Onondaga Lake is, what is was, and what is can still be.