Project Details
Planet Ord started as a small-scale art project aiming to document the landscape, ecology and community of Fort Ord - the largest decommissioned Army Base in the American West - and present that documentation to the world in a free and easily accessible format.
Created by artist Enid Baxter Ryce, this project became a partnership with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project which held a special pop-up exhibition and ceremony recognizing the Planet Ord project in the Library of Congress.
During the course of the project, Enid and her students discovered thousands of murals, painted by thousands of soldiers. They also developed a model for recording homeless veterans oral histories for the Library of Congress. The project inspired two museum exhibitions.
Subjects or Themes
Veterans, World War II, California Studies, Army, Vietnam War, BRAC
Project Language(s)
English
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Geographic Location
Project Categories
Content Type
Images, Mapping, Histories.