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
5 comments:
We went to the Dist. 7 office; found the small patio with a possible perch for birds; but I was confused about the St. Joe's part of the clue? I'm pretty sure we were in the right place, and the art must have been found by someone else- but do you mind explaining the St. Joe part to me? Thanks Team Schwartzcomgcibv
I saw the word St. Joe on a brick on the low wall. This may be another stretch. Go back and check.
My husband stopped on his way to work this morning and found the apple artifact.
He brought it to me at lunchtime today.
An Apple a Day... from the Doc?
It reminds me of the shiney Candy Apple that I gave to St. Kristofer on Halloween.
All I need to do is add a stick!!
Doc said the artifact was sitting on top of the tall wall of the small patio at back of the District 7 office.
He was able to wave good morning to someone sitting at the desk in the office that faces the patio.
St. Joe could be Joseph McCracken who was the Superintendent of District 7 when we were students at Spartan High more than 40 years ago or it could just be a name on a brick!
One member of our team was searching for this artifact at St. Christopher's Church next door to the High School thinking that might be St. Joe's counterpart.
Good Job of confusing us, Kris!!
We actually enjoy it when the clues are a puzzle or riddle, and the artifacts are hidden out of sight. It makes the hunt for your art more challenging and like a game.
Thank You for the fun!!
I will try to keep it interesting!
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