The Sheboygan Project

Like I mentioned in my last post, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center is always trying to connect the community with art in amazing ways. One of their latest endeavors is The Sheboygan Project. The Sheboygan Project is what came of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center working closely with the Wooster Collective. The Wooster Collective started as a website showcasing different street artists in a variety of different mediums- like cardboard art and guerilla gardening. With the Sheboygan Project, the Wooster Collective and JMKAC are bringing street art to sheboygan with artists Chris Stain, Gabriel Specter, Jessie Unterhalter & Katey Truhn, along a few other artists.

Jessie Unterhalter & Katey Truhn at Deland Park in Sheboygan

Fred Smith's Concrete Park Workshop

One thing that makes the John Michael Kohler Arts Center such a great place to work with is that they are constantly providing programming that not only serves the community but connects the people in the community with the art they conserve. As an intern on the exhibitions team, I had the opportunity to help out with a workshop at Fred Smith's Concrete Park in Phillips, Wisconsin. It was absolutely amazing and I think it was a massively successful workshop!

RGB

Hi Everyone! I'm back from Mexico and full of inspiration for how I'm going to make Tracing Perspectives better. Before I start the re-haul, I want to feature an installation called RGB by a design group called Carnovsky which is made up of two Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla- an artist/designer duo based in Milan.

From their website:

RGB

Color est e pluribus unus

RGB is a work about the exploration of the “surface’s deepness”.

RGB designs create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus.

Carnovsky's RGB is an ongoing project that experiments with the interaction between printed and light colours. The resulting images are unexpected and disorienting. The colors mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear. Through a colored filter (a light or a transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed. The filter's colors are red, green and blue, each one of them serves to reveal one of the three layers.

RGB’s technique consists in the overlapping of three different images, each one in a primary color. The resulting images from this three level’s superimposition are unexpected and disorienting. The colors mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear. Through a colored filter (a light or a transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed. The filter’s colors are red, green and blue, each one of them serves to reveal one of the three levels.

Don't you want to just stand in there and soak it all in?

I also really love that they went with the encyclopedic drawings. 

Here are some more pictures:

Those pictures are all of the same room, with a different color light to highlight a certain layer. SO COOL. 

Can I have this on a wall in my house PLEASE?

This work of art makes me feel like the blogger at The Jealous Curator because I'm SO JEALOUS of this idea. It's amazing. 

I hope you all enjoyed. and thank you Katie B. for showing me this! 

Artist Spotlight - Bradley Hart

You may have noticed from some of my past posts that I really enjoy when people use everyday, ordinary things to create amazing art. Like Jessica Drenk and her pencil sculptures or Rob Mulholland's mirror sculptures. Well Bradley Hart is another artist who uses a unique medium for this works... Can you guess what it is? 

Art & Science - Barbican's Rain Room

Seriously guys, I don't know how many of you are usually standing when reading Tracing Perspectives, but take a seat. 

This art is going to KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF. 

This installation is called The Rain Room at Barbican's Centre in London.

Known for their distinctive approach to digital-based contemporary art, Random International’’s experimental artworks come alive through audience interaction. Their largest and most ambitious installation yet, Rain Room is a 100 square metre field of falling water for visitors to walk through and experience how it might feel to control the rain. On entering The Curve the visitor hears the sound of water and feels moisture in the air before discovering the thousands of falling droplets that respond to their presence and movement. Did you read that? The thousands of falling droplets that respond to their presences and movement. 

Isn't that amazing!

Installation - Felice Varini

Isn't it interesting how something looks so out of place in one spot...

John Merritt - Wood Magician

There's a place in my heart for woodworking. My grandpa had a complete wood shop in his basement and every time I smell sawdust or the smell of freshly worked wood, I think of him. The style of woodworking that's featured in John Merritt's video was very popular during the great depression, but has been around for thousands of years. Hobbyists would take wood that was sitting around the house and carve it to pass the time and would sometimes sell their pieces for a little extra money. The intricacies of these pieces always astound me! 

Cutest old man award 2013 goes to John Merritt.