![]() ![]() ![]() Matthews writes that Bernofsky hid in his dome throughout the Joy Festival, and quit, disgusted, the very next day. The peak of Drop City's fame was the Joy Festival in June 1967, which attracted hundreds of hippies, some of whom stayed on. Gene "Curly" Bernofsky later wrote that nationwide attention contributed to the commune's demise. The community grew in reputation and size, accelerated by media attention, including news reports on national television networks. The Firesign Theatre folks had a commercial-"kids, tear the top off your daddy's car, and send it, together with 10 cents in cash or coin, to Drop City, Colorado." In 1967 the group, now consisting of 10 core people, won Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion award for their constructions. Inspired by the architectural ideas of Buckminster Fuller and Steve Baer, residents constructed domes and zonohedra to house themselves, using geometric panels made from the metal of automobile roofs and other inexpensive materials. Drop Art (sometimes called "droppings") was informed by the "happenings" of Allan Kaprow and the impromptu performances, a few years earlier, of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Buckminster Fuller, at Black Mountain College.Īs Drop City gained notoriety in the 1960s underground, people from around the world came to stay and work on the construction projects. Their intention was to create a live-in work of Drop Art, continuing an art concept they had developed earlier at the University of Kansas. In 1960, the four original founders, Gene Bernofsky ("Curly Benson"), JoAnn Bernofsky ("Drop Lady"), Richard Kallweit ("Larry Lard"), and Clark Richert ("Clard Svenson"), art students and filmmakers from the University of Kansas and University of Colorado, bought a 7-acre (28,000 m 2) tract of land about four miles (6 km) north of Trinidad, in southeastern Colorado. The Ultimate Painting, by Drop Artists, 1966, acrylic on panel, 60" × 60" Pythagorean Tree, by Drop Artists, 1967, acrylic on panel, 48" diam. ![]() Abandoned by 1979, Drop City became known as the first rural "hippie commune". Drop City was a counterculture artists' community that formed near the town of Trinidad in southern Colorado in 1960. ![]()
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