She gardens, she builds…Michelle Obama may already be hands down the ReadyMade-est First Lady ever.
Here’s a picture of Ms. Obama with California First Lady Maria Shriver at the Bret Harte Elementary School in San Francisco on June 22. She was there as part of a playground build organized by KaBOOM, an organization that facilitates community-built playgrounds. (And a design-forward organization at that—check their collaboration with architect David Rockwell.)
The playground build was part of the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, and kicked off the Obama Administration’s “United We Serve” initiative, which calls on Americans to volunteer in their communities this summer. Over 600 volunteers came out to build the playground and paint a mural of labor leader César Chávez.
The images were sent by Chronicle Books editor and ReadyMade reader Christina Amini, who was on hand with a passel of playground-building volunteers to cheer Eugenie Harvey, the author of How To Change the World for Ten Bucks, who gave the keynote address at the NCVS opening session on Monday.
More pictures from the build after the jump.
(Image credit: Christina Amini)
This is a great cause for the first lady to be supporting. Also, for all my fellow ReadyMade project builders out there, the nonprofit KaBOOM! that organized the playground build has tons of projects on their site that you can do to spruce up an existing playground in your neighborhood! Just click on Improve a Playground when you get to the website and you’ll see plans for picnic tables, benches, you name it.