October 2009
17 posts
WEEK 7: BAKE A CAKE
This week, I introduced the class to Sara Savannah Roach, a visiting artist from Portland Oregon who has been spending October at Elsewhere. Sara’s project at Elsewhere has been an ongoing bake sale and cake decorating company. Sara has been decorating cakes to look like Elsewhere objects, both 3-D and relief, and then selling them out of our front window for a paltry $3. While business...
WEEK 6: SCREEN PRINTING TIME
Well, with only a couple weeks to go I shared a final project with the class, a collaboration with Trees NC to plant trees (4 crape myrtles) on the Weaver campus to help beautify Weaver and make it more aesthetically integrated with downtown Greensboro.
We read the proposal to the school together, and then discussed a bit about the event.
I’ve tasked the class with raising 1/2 the cost of...
WEEK 5: GUERRILLA GARDENING
This week was a super phenomenal one for Art Everywhere. We talked about gardens as art, from The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, to Versailles, to the Rebar Collective, Park Day, and Guerilla Gardening in general.
Then the good part. We headed out Elsewhere’s front door to a spot where we used to have a city tree and until today was a large pile of dirt. The first large tree we used to have...
WEEK 4: BRIDGE
This week we decided to connect with a new Elsewhere project, a mural for under the bridge under the Hamburger Square Railroad Tressle. We spent a long time in class talking about how communities connect with an image in their downtown. George went into detail about his intimate relationship with the Public Art Endowment and what kind of languages we are using to explain our case for art —...
WEEK 3: LOUNGING
I met everyone at the Greensboro Public Library. The intention was to go on a public art walk around downtown, stopping at key sites along the way. We wandered up the Green Street Parking deck first, where two years ago the United Arts Council commissioned a mural in the stairwell. The mural is in spanish and english, and stretches across the four floors of the deck, and can be read in any...