Clue: In collaboration with Partners for Active Living, SPARTA Bus, and the City of Spartanburg, visual artist and Spartanburg resident Kris Neely will move through out the city of Spartanburg for six months. The project is intended to call the community's attention to bus shelters, bike racks, and city trails.
Step 1: Kris Neely will move through Spartanburg in ways that are not his typical ways of experiencing this place. He will begin to create studies and sketches that will be used for the creation of one larger piece of art.
Step 2: Kris will place these studies throughout the city in places that he noticed during his travels. Clues will be placed on this blog along with photographic images of the artifacts.
Step 3: Participants are invited to follow the clues to find these small pieces of art. Finders keepers. We invite you to leave a comment on this site letting us know the work has been found and taken. You might even want to post a picture of yourself in the location. Please see Step 5 for more details about a what we hope you will do with this art.
Step 4: Citizens are encouraged to send in postcard reflections about the way they move through Spartanburg. Poems, art work, and collages are just some of the creative ways you can reflect. (Children are encouraged to participate.) Please be aware that by submitting a card you are agreeing for the card to be exhibited in a culminating show and on this site. No postcards will be returned and decisions about whether reflections will be posted are left to the sole discretion of the Artist-in-Transit.
Step 5: Participate in the culminating art show (TBA). Participants who find the artifacts are encouraged to bring them to the culminating show for display. These pieces will be yours to keep after the event. Kris will share the larger work that resulted from the studies of movement and systems in the City of Spartanburg. Postcard reflections will be on display. Information about active living and public art initiatives in Spartanburg will be available at this event.
Step 6: Consider making a personal adjustment in the way you move each day through Spartanburg!
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In his studio, Neely experiments with new media and found objects to create two-dimensional and three-dimensional art.
For more information about the artist, please visit: www.kristoferneely.com
4 comments:
Heard you this morning! Glad Bill finally figured out what was going on. I think you were right, someone got it before the show was over because it was not there when I went by at 10:30!
I also heard you on Bill Drake this morning... Good interview, Kris!... and I'm glad that he finally understood your art project... or did he???
We went to look for the "Chicken Leg Tree" artifact around 4:30 this afternoon. In spite of the rain and the missing art, we enjoyed the view from the Helvetica Gazebo... watching the Ducks on the Lake... and waking the Promanade.
You are doing a grand job of locating wonderful spots for us to enjoy as we seek to be finders and keepers of your art.
My favorite sight at the hiding place today was watching the rain hit the water and the way the drips seemed to jump back into the air for a brief moment. We have many wonderful sights in our city that can be easily overlooked!! Maybe as easily overlooked as our artifact for the day was!!! I arrived at Helvetica Island around 6:07 tonight and after a good bit of looking around...I found the art! It had fallen from its original place and was lying on the ground under a bush near the wall. What a pleasant surprise! But you can rest assured, it has a good dry home now. And your packaging seems to be keeping the art very safe indeed! Happy hunting to all!!
Ooooh!
What if some of the other pieces that have been reported missing might have suffered a similar fate?
Persistence seems to pay off!
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