Charlie Milgrim interview

Artist and educator Charlie Milgrim talks about her building experiences in the Emeryville mudflats: building sculptures with high-school students during her first teaching experience in 1975 and collaboratively creating large scale activist pieces protesting the U.S. involvement in the Civil War in El Salvador in the late 1980s.

Pyramid and palm tree sculptures

Sculpture in the Emeryville Mudflats, September 1976

Figure with outstretched arms sculpture

Sculpture in the Emeryville Mudflats, October 1978

Sculpture of scrap wood, tires and colored plastic

Sculpture in the Emeryville Mudflats, April 1978

"Sculptor's Fair" sculpture

Sculpture in the Emeryville Mudflats, May 1978

Darth Vader sculpture

Sculpture of Darth Vader from the movie "Star Wars" in the Emeryville Mudflats, August 1977

Mudflat Express, train sculpture

Sculpture in the Emeryville Mudflats, October 1977

Angel, windmill and knight sculptures

Sculpture in the Emeryville Mudflats, May 1978

Peterbilt truck sculpture

Sculpture in the Emeryville Mudflats, April 1978

Trojan Bunny sculpture

Sculpture of the Trojan Bunny from the movie "Monty Python and The Holy Grail". Emeryville Mudflats, December 1977