So thankful for this amazing participant in my quest for ecological stewardship. Lee organized a cap collection for St. Louis Master naturalists, Forest Releaf, and Missouri Botanic Gardens. This is the first haul. Please keep collecting those caps. We need thousands to make art!
@forestreleaf
@greatrivers
@mobotgarden
So happy to be partnering with @turnipgreencreativereuse for the Nashville plastic bottle cap collection! We cleaned them out last week and are hungry for more of your discarded caps. Nashville, please take your caps to Turnip Green. We'll pick them up each week and turn them into a fabulous space for your enjoyment this fall!
Special thanks to @janet_decker_yanez and @sp153060605, who are helping launch this project.
If you'd like to participate in the Nashville build, DM me your email and I'll send you more information.
People ask how we make the panels for the dome. It's a long and laborious process to get to the fun design part. Paying attention to structural integrity, ability to withstand weather conditions, and make it fun for participants is what we do in the studio.
Can't wait to see the work in its entirety. Exciting to collaborate with @mintartistsguild, whose artists are making half the Dome panels!
We've collected enough caps for one dome! Now onto the second... Keep up that collection folks!
Kim had been collecting her caps since I started this work as a collaboration with a middle school. She most recently introduced her niece to the project. So happy to get to know project participants better and better and meet more people along the way!
@jiali_designs
She's growing up! Keep collecting those caps please. We need a llloottt of them!!
When I got my studio in St Louis I was so burnt out I wasn't sure if I'd continue doing social practice. So glad I went with the bigger space! Almost as soon as I moved in I was commissioned for a project that involved me having about 3 dozen people in the studio a day. Soon after I started hosting monthly Third Space meet ups.
Now we're building a 10' x 17' geodesic dome here with plenty of room to spare. That said, the sun light pouring through the south facing windows made it too hot to keep going for today. Will post it progress tomorrow!
Thanks to @madgreen.art, @jiali_designs, and @defnot_avas for the help today.
If there are some strong folks who'd willing to help us tomorrow please DM me!
@artprize
Adding more panels! @jiali.deck created this one as her first project for the studio!
We're making panels for the domes! 198 to go! DM if you want to make a panel with us! All participants are credited in the artworks.
@madgreen.art
#avaswan
#geodesicdome
#zipties
#plasticreuse
#bottlecap
#bottlecapart
#artfair
#participation
#participatorypublicart
Call for Caps!!
I'm excited to announce that I'm making large scale participatory artworks for the cities of Grand Rapids, Nashville, and St. Louis as part of my national Makes Waves initiative, where I'm working with river city communities to imagine cleaner, more creative futures for all.
Please join me by collecting plastic bottle caps of any size, color and shape! Get your neighbors, schools, and organizations involved and You could find your community by being a collection point.
Everyone will be credited in the work and the resulting art will be a lot of fun!
Collection deadline: September 1. You'll be amazed how quickly you collect!! DM me for cap pick up in your city.
#nashville
#grandrapids
#stlouismo
#artistsmakingadifference
#plastic
@mo.river.relief
@turnipgreencreativereuse
@mintartistsguild
@mandy_cano_villalobos
@caryokoro
@cultivategr
@fccstl
@forsythschool
If you've ever wondered where all those bottle caps that you're giving me are going, know that I use them for large-scale participatory artworks. I'm working on one right now that I plan to show @stlouisearthday festival next year.
Next week I'm running a participatory workshop @camstl as part of their tornado relief summer camp. Keep on bringing the caps. It's fun to meet you!
@madgreen.art
@marniacbermingham
@markzimmermanphotoart
@mo.river.relief
