How big do the rocks need to be and what do they need to look like?

An artist I work with carved Styrofoam blocks into "rocks" about
fist-sized and spray-painted them with faux-granite craft paint to use
in a scale model of a project.  I don't know how they would hold up in
an environment such as you plan to use them in, but they are so
inexpensive to make that you could make a whole bunch and just replace
the ones that get worn out.

Best,

Julia Muney Moore
Public Art Administrator
Blackburn Architects, Indianapolis, IN
(317) 875-5500 x230
 

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Baron, Melanie Perlman
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 3:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Foam rocks

Hi Stacy, 
Call the Indianapolis Children's Museum.  They had a wonderful exhibit
several years ago with tractors and building equipment excavating an
enormous pile of foam rocks.  


Melanie Perlman Baron
Program Coordinator
ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center
300 East Seventh St
Charlotte, NC 28202
704-973-2783
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stacy Ellwein [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:29 PM
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Subject: Foam rocks

Hello,

I'm an exhibit designer with AldrichPears Associates in Vancouver.  We
are
currently designing a mining gallery in which there is an interactive
children's section where they can shovel rocks into carts and flumes
etc.
I'm having some difficulty tracking down retailers and/or manufacturers
of
foam rocks and was hoping some one in the museum world could help.

Please let me know if you have any leads.


Thanks,

Stacy Ellwein
Exhibit Designer
AldrichPears Associates

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