Art thoughts and January Goals
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Lee Reis
Jan 4, 2011, 1:08:37 PM1/4/11
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Happy New Year Artists!
It's been excellent to see the conversations that have started around both bike-part crafts and shop decoration.
I'd like to suggest we start a regular drop-in session to have more brainstorming/prototyping/group work time. Eventually we could work to have items ready by May for the event at Walleye Gallery as we discussed.
Here is a poll of the hours available at the new shop to start this. Please choose the times you are most likely to attend, and we'll pick the most populated. You are of course welcome to come down during any of our open hours!
My big goal for January is to create signs for most of the shop areas and for tasks that volunteers can do. Many of the tasks can be found here, but the shop sections will need to be outlined (I will take care of this soon). If people are available this Thursday from 6-7, like last meeting, we could start to divide up the list of signs and get any materials that you need ready - please RSVP if you can make it! We will keep the mural in mind as a medium- to long-term project, but these short-term signage needs will go a long way towards making the space easy to navigate.
Lastly, if anyone wants to help paint the walls of the big retail space white tomorrow (Wednesday) from 5-9, bring some clothes to paint in and come on down! We will have plenty of supplies and a professional painter to help guide the process.
Cheers,
-Lee
P.S. A note on working with bike parts: A main goal of this work is to add value to stuff that flows through OCBC. Chains and gears are the most durable and evocative of the plentiful wear-parts material, but also the hardest to clean. The bowl idea is fun, and you may have all seen our wind chimes made of gears. To use these effectively the first job is to clean them thoroughly, easily, and as "greenly" as possible. We have salvaged an agitator from the previous building owner which may solve this problem similarly to this. We will try to experiment with this soon.
It's been excellent to see the conversations that have started around both bike-part crafts and shop decoration.
I'd like to suggest we start a regular drop-in session to have more brainstorming/prototyping/group work time. Eventually we could work to have items ready by May for the event at Walleye Gallery as we discussed.
Here is a poll of the hours available at the new shop to start this. Please choose the times you are most likely to attend, and we'll pick the most populated. You are of course welcome to come down during any of our open hours!
My big goal for January is to create signs for most of the shop areas and for tasks that volunteers can do. Many of the tasks can be found here, but the shop sections will need to be outlined (I will take care of this soon). If people are available this Thursday from 6-7, like last meeting, we could start to divide up the list of signs and get any materials that you need ready - please RSVP if you can make it! We will keep the mural in mind as a medium- to long-term project, but these short-term signage needs will go a long way towards making the space easy to navigate.
Lastly, if anyone wants to help paint the walls of the big retail space white tomorrow (Wednesday) from 5-9, bring some clothes to paint in and come on down! We will have plenty of supplies and a professional painter to help guide the process.
Cheers,
-Lee
P.S. A note on working with bike parts: A main goal of this work is to add value to stuff that flows through OCBC. Chains and gears are the most durable and evocative of the plentiful wear-parts material, but also the hardest to clean. The bowl idea is fun, and you may have all seen our wind chimes made of gears. To use these effectively the first job is to clean them thoroughly, easily, and as "greenly" as possible. We have salvaged an agitator from the previous building owner which may solve this problem similarly to this. We will try to experiment with this soon.
Melissa Thompson
Jan 5, 2011, 10:05:31 AM1/5/11
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I'll plan to come this Thursday at 6pm.
Maureen McNamara
Jan 5, 2011, 9:32:48 PM1/5/11
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I can be there.
Maureen
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 13:08:37 -0500
Subject: [ocbc-artists] Art thoughts and January Goals
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