The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefeild NY
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The Aldrich Art Museum is located in an area of New York where there are very few large walls to draw on. As an alternative solution to creating a centralized large-scale Tape art mural we offered the museum three days worth of two-hour time slots for which they could essentially rent us out to their patrons. This means that the museum patrons pointed us at walls and helped prompt the themes of these drawings.
We worked in private homes, in a public library, at a local supermarket and wherever else the donors wanted to see Tape Art. It was a great opportunity for the Aldrich Art Museum to offer an art experience directly to their supports who could either keep it for themselves or gift it to others in the community. |
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As part of the residency, at the end of the week the "stewards" of these drawings removed the work and brought the resulting tape balls to the museum, where we displayed them alongside documentation of the original drawings.
The residency ultimately created a fund-raising opportunity for the museum, which was able to not only pay for our residency from the money generated, but also raise money for the museum itself. The feedback we got from the project was very positive from the community, whose only feedback was that next time this would be a great opportunity to have walking tours of all the murals.
The residency ultimately created a fund-raising opportunity for the museum, which was able to not only pay for our residency from the money generated, but also raise money for the museum itself. The feedback we got from the project was very positive from the community, whose only feedback was that next time this would be a great opportunity to have walking tours of all the murals.
AHA! Festival's Every Home has a Story, Fall River MA
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We repeated the satellite residency model partnering with a group of UMASS Dartmouth marketing students and Fall River AHA, an organization that works to bring awareness to the cultural and architectural offerings of the Fall River area.
We made Tape Art drawings around the city to promote AHA's event celebrating historic homes called Every Home Has a Story. The small murals leading up to the AHA event continued the theme of story-telling by drawing vignettes reflecting the people living and working within the homes and small businesses we visited. At the event itself, we displayed the tape balls, documentation and stories alongside the AHA displays about the historic homes. |
