What if we do this...or this...or this?

There continues to be much discussion in both studios about how the final exhibit is going to look. Renee and Maurshell have come up with some great designs for the graphics so that they will all look cohesive. However, everyone has their own ideas about how each detail should be and we have spent a lot of time discussing and debating as a class. Today we spent a long time figuring out which font looked best, after talking about it for a while I think the majority of the class was in agreement.

Construction begins!

Jami brought in the materials for the first stage of the exhibit today and we began putting the walls together. We got the back wall up in just a couple of hours and then Jami stayed the rest of the day and got the side wall together and cut down the pieces for the front wall.

Exhibit Design Continues...

Renee and Maurshell have come up with a layout of the exhibit in our studio space. Everyone who is planning on building a full scale version of the chair made a scale footprint of their chair to go on the plan. Everything seems to be going well with the exhibit design, I can't wait to see it all come together in the end!

Exhibit Proposal

While Jami and I have been working on the Living Collaborative Exhibition Studio, Renee and Maurshell have been working on the exhibit design and discussing their ideas with the rest of the class. Based on a sketch done by Sara Zales, they have come up with the idea of having a band of pictures which will unite all the posters into one cohesive exhibit. The idea is that each subject will have a different color band as the background for the images that the group decides to display.

Living Collaborative Exhibition Studio

Jami and I began constructing the walls of the exhibit today. The back wall will be made of metal, while the side and front walls are made of wood and acrylic. The framed walls are acting as the first stage of the exhibit, which is supposed to have been constructed by a sculptor. The back, metal wall will have a rectangular frame with scraps of metal crossed at different angles inside of it. The side wall is a wooden frame with plywood insets. The plywood pieces are scraps from Brayton furniture. The front wall is also a wooden frame, but has a large piece of clear acrylic set in it.

The walls are going to be used as the frame work for the next two people to display their work and add on to the exhibit. We are going to use the back wall of metal to attach canvas to be painted on. The paintings will then serve as a back drop for the chair that will be exhibited as the final stage. The acrylic that will be in front of the chair will be an interactive piece to the exhibit which people can draw on. Also, as part of the final stage, we will be strategically placing my process work for the chair on the side wall of the exhibit.

Exhibit topics

Today, each pair signed up for the topic that they wanted to represent in the exhibit.

Jami's honors project

There is still another piece to this project. Jami Southern is doing her senior honor's project this semester. Her project was also inspired by the Hatchery and she is going to be designing and building an exhibit. After much research and discussion she has come up with the idea of making a toolkit which would give the student the tools to create their own studio space/exhibit the way they see fit. The exhibit would then be added on to by the next student who came in to use it for their work and so on and so on. For the purpose of this project, the first person who would be using the toolkit would be a sculptor, the next a painter, and lastly me, an interior architecture student working on a chair design.

We talked a lot about it on Monday and generated some really cool ideas. We came up with ways that each of the stages could build off of the last one so that the end exhibit which will display my full scale chair will be cohesive and also very interesting and interactive. Also, her idea about the toolkit and the sort of modular exhibit has influenced my chair design as well. There will be much more to come about this soon!