Jersey City Museum Unveils Bottled Project V.2. By Pollie Barden

Jersey City Museum is pleased to invite the public to the unveiling of Bottled Project V.2.Jersey City Museum, Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development, Liberty State Park's Interpretive Center, and the school children and residents of Jersey City have collaborated to create this off-site installation which be on view through June 2010 at the Mack-Cali building on Christopher Columbus Drive in Jersey City.

Conceived by artist Pollie Barden, Bottled V.2. is made up of more than 2,000 discarded water bottles collected from school waste receptacles, the beachfront along the Hackensack and Hudson Rivers, city streets and neighborhood parks. Barden and Jersey City Museum have collaborated with more than 1,000 students from the Learning Community Charter School, M.S. Number 4, P.S. Number 8, P.S. Number 23, and the Ethical Community Charter School to collect these bottles.

Date : February 17, 2010

Time : 10 a.m.

Off-Site Location:

JCM @ the Columbus Windows: Sculpture Satellite

The Mack-Cali building windows located at Christopher Columbus Drive between Washington and Greene Streets Jersey City, NJ 07302

For more information about the project, visit www.bottledproject.org.

Part of the JCM @ series, Bottled V.2. is an extension of Hudson Views, a 2009 exhibition at Jersey City Museum organized by William La Rosa, Director, Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/Tourism. This project was also made possible by the generous support of Hudson County Freecycle, ScrapCycle and the Recycling Program of NYU.

This program is sponsored by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development, Thomas A. DeGise, Hudson County Executive, and the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders and the Jersey City Museum.