WIRE PLAY
In October 2021 I facilitated a project at the Twentynine Palms Art gallery, as part of the annual Joshua Tree National Park Art Expo. This project is the most recent iteration of other, similar wire art experiences I have "taught", in the National Park, via Zoom, and elsewhere.
The intention of the project is exclusively to promote creative play, fun, and connections among people by providing materials and a setting where participants can be actively engaged, on the individual level and also as a group, without any idea that there is a way to be good or bad at the activity. These projects are inclusive to all people; participants at the Expo ranged in age from 8 to 88.
Bending wire, making something that will stand up and look a certain way, participants engage with fine motor skills, physics, engineering, aesthetics, and more, learning as they play, following their own inclinations.
I provide wire, sticks, and stones, and invite people to make whatever they want out of it, with no other instruction or guidance. Participants are then invited to place their pieces in a collective installation and/or take them home.
The intention of the project is exclusively to promote creative play, fun, and connections among people by providing materials and a setting where participants can be actively engaged, on the individual level and also as a group, without any idea that there is a way to be good or bad at the activity. These projects are inclusive to all people; participants at the Expo ranged in age from 8 to 88.
Bending wire, making something that will stand up and look a certain way, participants engage with fine motor skills, physics, engineering, aesthetics, and more, learning as they play, following their own inclinations.
I provide wire, sticks, and stones, and invite people to make whatever they want out of it, with no other instruction or guidance. Participants are then invited to place their pieces in a collective installation and/or take them home.