Friends of Blue Dress Park 2010 - ongoing

Overhead Map of Blue Dress Park created by the FofBDP for public outreach.

Friends of Blue Dress Park 2010 - ongoing
Dimensions: variable
mixed media, multi-pronged, hybrid intervention

Friends of Blue Dress Park is a collaborative project exploring legacy, bureaucracy, and shared resources. The project takes the form of a stewardship organization, using an informal board structure to oversees the legacy of Druecke’s christening of Blue Dress Park in June 2000.

In 2010, and 2021 for that matter, BDP remains a place of pure potential

Blue Dress Park is a slab of concrete on the corner of Holton and Resevoir in Milwaukee, WI. The project grew out of conversations between Sara Daleiden (MKE<->LAX) and Druecke, eventually involving dozens of board members and multiple initiatives in the process of defining and undertaking it’s mission.

Mission Statement: The Friends of Blue Dress Park explore underused, overlooked urban environments—Blue Dress Park spaces—in order to cultivate value in marginal public resources. The organization fosters creative and critical inquiry into relationships between cultural legacy, social identity, and public space.

Documentary video by Wes Tank in response to the FofBDP’s prompt SPEND TIME WITH BLUE DRESS PARK.

Slideshow feature the Friend’s Guiding Structure and documentation from the group’s initiatives and activities.

Friends of Blue Dress Park Logo

Design oversight by board member, John Riepenoff

Blue Dress Park Map

Created by board member, Sarah Luther.

Board Structure

from the inaugural board meeting, which took place in the board room of Historic Milwaukee by invitation of then board member, Anna Marie Opgenorth.

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