Time to Transcend: April 2nd
| April 2, 2010 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
April 2nd is Spokane’s time to transcend.
In an unprecedented community-art-business get-down, The Transcendence Project is a large-scale collaboration of Spokane’s Arts and Youth Services communities. Local “social-sculpture” duo, Black Rabbit Magic are coordinating with Our Kids: Our Business, the April awareness project promoting investment in kids, as well as The Inlander, Riverspeak Arts Collective, the Downtown Spokane Partnership, and Spokane Arts Commission to explore the parameters of community and art by implementing eleven interactive art installations in public and vacant spaces along the April First Friday Art Walk.
The eleven Transcendence Projects are the result of collaborations between non-profit organizations and artist teams, and were juried into public exhibition by a team of young professionals representing Spokane’s diverse arts and non-profit sectors. Venues for The Transcendence Project are generously donated by The Community Building, STA, Little Red School House, Spokane Partners, LLC, and Monroe Madison Management, LLC. (Learn more here)
Don’t miss these fantastic projects on April 2nd:
1. Hope for the Future: Performance art team, The Koalas, is working with Spokane’s Youth Suicide Prevention Program and Washington Youth ‘n’ Action to develop a forum for a diverse group of youth to express their hopes for the future. Odd Fellows Building, 1017 W 1st Ave. For more info, contact Mary Bass of The Koalas, msmarybass@gmail.com
2. Tic-Tac-Toe in the Community: Visual Artists, Cori McWilliams and Dani Pavlic, are working with The Little Red School House and Community-Minded Television to document x’s and o’s from various Spokane neighborhoods that will projected onto the Little Red School House’s down town windows, 621 W. Sprague Ave. For more info, contact Dani Pavlic, artist, pavlic.dani@gmail.com
3. Give Peace a Chance: M.E.A.D. Alternative High School is partnering with the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane on a project involving students from the school’s human rights class in learning about the human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip culminating with a night of performance and songs for peace at the Community Building, 35 W. Main St. For more info, contact Brooke Matson, bmatson@mead.k12.wa.us
4. Blanketing the Community: The Salvation Army is being led by volunteer, Sarah Hoffart, to build a blanket fortress that will serve to show-case the breadth of the Salvation Army’s valuable community programs as well as serve as a venue for a performance by the Army’s old-fashioned brass band. STA Plaza, 701 W. Riverside Ave. For more info, contact Sarah Hoffart, artist, woodlinspryte@aol.com
5. A Brighter Future: Muralist, Tiffany Patterson is working with community mentors from Goodwill Industries’ Mentoring Children of Promise and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland Northwest to create a large, multi-layered painting and personalized gift-sets highlighting the benefits of mentoring. The Music City Building, 1011 W. 1st Ave. For more info, contact Tiffany Patterson, artist, cursewordsandbirds@gmail.com
6. Ball Painting: Spokane County Head Start, Early Head Start and ECEAP are coming together to illuminate the benefits of creativity at the earliest age. Instructors from these programs will lead families with young children in painting with various sized balls. Main Street Warehouse, 15 W. Main Ave. For more info, contact Mariah Martindale, Early Headstart, 509.279.6332
7. Hiding, Trespassing and Remembering: A Collective Passageway Through Isolation: Instructors, Ken Jernberg & Teresa Droz, have been using art in their learning environment for years at Volunteer of America’s Crosswalk. The student-designed installation documents the youth’s experiences of living on the streets. Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, 115 S. Adams St. For more info, contact Ken Jernberg at Crosswalk kjernberg@iel.spokane.edu, or Teresa Droz tdroz@iel.spokane.edu or 838-6596 (Monday-Thursday, 9:30am to 3:30pm)
8. The Transcendence Project: Art team, Boys Who Like Butterflies, is working with Lutheran Community Services, Odyssey Youth Center and Partners with Families and Children on a three-part interactive exhibit about the personal affects of gender and sexual violence. New Madison Apartments, 1031 W. 1st Ave. For more info, contact Naaman Cordova-Muenzberg of Boys Who Like Butterflies, ncordova@gonzaga.edu
9. Mother Tree: Sculptress, Tessa Swaboda, is partnering with Catholic Charities’ Childbirth and Parenting Alone to build a 23 foot high tree with a glass-blown uterus as an interactive monument to motherhood. For more info, contact Lisa Krigbaum from Catholic Charities, Main Street Warehouse, 15 W. Main Ave. lkrigbaum@ccspoknane.org
10. Blueprint Exhibition: Art/Urban Planning: Sustainable development agency, Futurewise, is sponsoring the exhibition of a traveling art show focused on visionary trends in urban planning which will be complemented by a similar themed exhibit at Saranac Art Projects. The Saranac Building, 25 W. Main Ave. For more info, contact Kitty Klitzke, organizer, kitty@futurewise.org
11. 2010 Earth Turners Convergence: Community Minded Enterprises’ teen-eco-guerilla-art force, the Youth Sustainability Council, is demonstrating its pioneering gathering spaces concept, complete with an indoor park, community-sculpture, sustainable living workshops, and Dance Par-tay! New Madison Apartments, 1023 W. 1st Ave. For more info, contact Nina Chalard, Youth Sustainability Council, 509.939.1848
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