Providence, RI – A group of architects, construction and engineering professionals, architecture and construction management students, and a wholesale natural food distributor have banded together to help relieve the hardship of the growing numbers of Rhode Islanders facing hunger.
Their efforts will help to raise tens of thousands of dollars worth of food for the R.I. Community Food Bank in April. Eight teams will design and build giant, amazingly innovative sculptures from thousands of cans of food in Rhode Island’s third annual Canstruction® sculpture competition. Designed to focus public attention on the problem of hunger, the sculptures will remain on exhibit for two weeks after they are built along the Providence Place Mall’s Skybridge Concourse on, April 10. The teams will disassemble the sculptures on April 24, for transportation of several tons of canned goods to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. Winners in various categories of the Canstruction® Rhode Island sculpture competition, all of which will be entered in the national competition, will be announced at a gala on April 22, in the exhibit area.
“We are very grateful for the efforts of these teams at a time when the numbers of Rhode Islanders served by emergency food programs has grown to more than 50,000 a month,” said Andrew Schiff, chief executive officer of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.
The teams include: Consigli Construction, Dimeo Construction and Vision 3 Architects, Gilbane Building Company and Roger Williams University, Innovative Office Interiors with Durkee Brown Viveiros and Werenfels Architects and United Natural Foods, Jo Ann Bentley Architects Lerner | Ladds + Bartels and Shawmut Design and Construction, Robinson Green Beretta Architects, Saccoccio & Associates with DiPrete Engineering and the Young Constructors Forum