Art in the Yard will be a morning full of fun family discoveries in art, gardening, sculpture — and snacks! Several concurrent components will shape the time:
Free Ride Home, one of three Kenneth Snelson tensegrity sculptures on public display, named after a horse, 1974.
TENESGRITY SCULPTURE WORKSHOP
How can individual sticks hold together without touching one another?
Come find out at a family friendly workshop on tensegrity. Each family will work together to make their own tensegrity sculpture using colored sticks and rubber bands.
Modernist tensegrity sculptures can trace their lineage to Black Mountain College (the famed art school in Black Mountain, North Carolina that operated from 1933-1957), where innovators like Buckminster Fuller and Kenneth Snelson used ideas surrounding tensegrity to develop a structural system where a piece's stability relied on continuous tension to hold isolated elements in place.
CURATING A CONTAINER GARDEN WITH SUZIE DITTENBER
How might gardening be an act of curation?
Through an ongoing collaboration with five other artists, Suzie Dittenber has transformed ceramic vessels and handmade and hand-dyed felted wool into a captivating container garden in the backyard of the Parts & Labor residence.
Works by Martha Clippinger, Sarah Hess, Knook Ceramics’ Diana Hoover, Louise Deroualle, and Suzanne Dittenber coalesce to support plant life as vessels, trellises, mulch and vegetation come together to create small container gardens. With this project, artworks serve plants’ needs, both for cultivation and aesthetics.
While Tom and the families are busy building, come hear from Suzie about her explorations into these crafts and the plant life that has come to fill each vessel.
Participating artists: