Event Title
Collective Pressure: Mobility as Maker
Location
McGregor Outdoor Tent
Start Date
26-9-2014 1:30 PM
End Date
26-9-2014 3:00 PM
Description
Collective Pressure: Mobility as Maker (Event) and Collective Pressure: Makers as Mobilizers (Presentation during panel discussion)
KCAD Printmaking students, staff, alumni, and faculty offered a printmaking experience for conference attendees that involved collective, large-scale printing using objects or tools related to either the auto industry directly or transportation in general. Objects and tools included tires from cars, bikes, skateboards as well as gears, timing belts, lawn rollers, and a "conveyor belt" substrate powered by a dismantled bike. Through inking and using the aforementioned tools/objects, conference attendees helped create large-scale works on tyvek through either printing or making rubbings. The three-hour outdoor event focused on process, participation and collaboration, and the performative capacity of using mobility as a maker.
The presentation in the panel discussion focused on the power of art to mobilize communities, and we looked specifically at Grand Rapids and how blighted areas are bring revitalized with art, while being conscious of the disenfranchised who live in the area. Specific examples included the Heartside area of Grand Rapids, Division Avenue, and Avenue for the Arts. The presentation focused on how as educators and community members, we as teachers can empower students to make positive change with an artistic and social focus.
KCAD students, staff, alumni, and faculty after the event
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Panel with Artuo Rodriguez, Mariel Versluis, and Danielle C. Wyckoff
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Panel with Artuo Rodriguez, Mariel Versluis, and Danielle C. Wyckoff
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KCAD students during the event, making totes out of printed-upon Tyvek
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KCAD students, staff, alumni, and faculty during event
Collective Pressure: Mobility as Maker
McGregor Outdoor Tent
Collective Pressure: Mobility as Maker (Event) and Collective Pressure: Makers as Mobilizers (Presentation during panel discussion)
KCAD Printmaking students, staff, alumni, and faculty offered a printmaking experience for conference attendees that involved collective, large-scale printing using objects or tools related to either the auto industry directly or transportation in general. Objects and tools included tires from cars, bikes, skateboards as well as gears, timing belts, lawn rollers, and a "conveyor belt" substrate powered by a dismantled bike. Through inking and using the aforementioned tools/objects, conference attendees helped create large-scale works on tyvek through either printing or making rubbings. The three-hour outdoor event focused on process, participation and collaboration, and the performative capacity of using mobility as a maker.
The presentation in the panel discussion focused on the power of art to mobilize communities, and we looked specifically at Grand Rapids and how blighted areas are bring revitalized with art, while being conscious of the disenfranchised who live in the area. Specific examples included the Heartside area of Grand Rapids, Division Avenue, and Avenue for the Arts. The presentation focused on how as educators and community members, we as teachers can empower students to make positive change with an artistic and social focus.