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 planting the crape myrtles.  I think it’s important that artists and creators learn how to raise the money to realize their visions.

We set to work learning to screen print with Elsewhere Creative Assistant Anthony Lowe, who has been Elsewhere’s screen printing operations head this year.  He walked everyone through the printing process, and then the class set to making some designs for the shirts.  We settled on two different designs, a stretching tree design and a bird design, to appeal to different Weaver groups (the band kids and the design kids).  In the process, we also imagined the event as “Treefest,” including musical performances to keep entertainment flowing.

We’ll brainstorm more next week.