The Dirty Lab – the largest project area in our space, with lots of movable work surfaces – is a great space for collective art.  We’ve hosted sign making for the March for Science, and students, faculty, and visiting artists collaborated on a banner for International Workers Day.  Today, students and faculty worked on signs for the National School Walkout and March 14, 2018.

Arms Are For Hugging

Some old school techniques…

No More Silence

…and some new ones.  We used the laser cutter to cut some 10 mil mylar – a new material for us that just arrived, and that will hopefully make our stencil activity for Making Social Change a little easier in the fall – creating an AR-15 stencil and accompanying “NO” symbol.

Krylon

Walkout Posters

Taylor and Zainub and Jeremy and CJ (students) and Diane Carlson (Sociology) and I collaborated on a display to accompany the culminating event of the college’s Social Justice Spring events.

Here Taylor and Zainub are creating a physical (and metaphorical) wall from felt and fabric…

Wall Making

We remixed Shepard Fairey’s “We the People” series, then used the vinyl cutter to create large stickers. Diane and I preparing a sticker for transfer…

Sticker Making

…and Diane and Jeremy laying out the words for the display.

Untitled

Here’s the wall, about to be torn down…

The Big Reveal

…and here’s the final result, beautifully back-lit:

All Three Panels

A great and powerful wrap-up for an important month-long series of activities. I’m proud of our college!