Figment
Nicole Donnelly and I created 4' x 8' sheets of handmade paper in West Philadelphia's Clark Park as part of the interactive art festival Figment. We invited the public to contribute imagery via finely beaten pigmented pulp sprayed through silkscreen stencils. The stencils included imagery and text speaking to timely issues in Philadelphia in October 2013 -- primarily schools, public funding, and the upcoming election.
Eat Your Words
Visitors to this event, held at The Soapbox: Independent Publishing Center in June 2013, were invited to screenprint the text "Eat Your Words" onto tortillas using edible "inks." They then wrote things they regretted saying using food coloring markers, built a burrito from the tortilla, and then literally ate their words.
MURAL Arts Residency
As artist-in-residence at Max Myers Recreation Center in Philadelphia in 2012, I worked with a group of students ages 8-14 to create this mural. Participants created stencils from leaves gathered on recreation center grounds and then made shaped sheets of paper. I installed the papers, using wheat paste techniques, along a corridor wall to create vine or branch motifs that dialogued with the relief print plant imagery installed in isolated spots along this hallway by a previous group.
DISPLACED
Displaced was an interactive pulp printing piece that took place in September 2012 as part of Make It, Break It, Rebuild It, an event and exhibition featuring over 20 artists as well as performances. The exhibit took place in a former lamp factory, currently sitting unused.
Visitors were invited to make a sheet of paper from recycled paper fibers and then use finely beaten pigmented pulp sprayed through an array of stencils to create art responding to ideas about community, speaking out, and transformation. The papers were transferred to windows at the entrance to the space, building an installation portraying the collective vision of dozens of participants.
Visitors were invited to make a sheet of paper from recycled paper fibers and then use finely beaten pigmented pulp sprayed through an array of stencils to create art responding to ideas about community, speaking out, and transformation. The papers were transferred to windows at the entrance to the space, building an installation portraying the collective vision of dozens of participants.
Book Bombs
Book Bombs is a collaboration with Michelle Wilson, featuring a series of prints on paper made from invasive plants harvested from empty urban lots, and a zine, installed in public spaces in Philadelphia in early 2010. More on the project at http://bookbombing.blogspot.com and at www.bookbombs.net.
The Welcome House
The Welcome House was conceived by Marianne Bernstein. A 10' x 10' cube housed day long artist residencies in Philadelphia's Love Park in October 2009. Mary Tasillo and Michelle Wilson transformed the cube into the Book Bombs Shelter. Passersby were invited to make handmade paper pieces about home, Love Park, and security using pulp sprayed through silkscreen stencils, and to add their wet paper art to an installation on the walls of the cube. The project was presented by First Person Arts, designed by Interface Studio Architects, and included nighttime video projection by Ricardo Rivera of klip collective and other artists. www.thewelcomehouse.net
Rifle Cookies
In January 2007, I delivered 200 rifle-shaped sugar cookies packaged with "Nutrition Information" to an anti-troop surge rally in Washington, DC and handed them out. The stories I collected from the people I spoke with became the material for a zine. This intervention served as a vehicle for conversation and exchange of stories amongst those at the rally