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Artifact Count

  • Currently Hidden: 0 items
  • Reported Missing/Not Registered: 14 items
  • Found and Registered: 106 items
  • Total Artifact Count: 120 items

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Hidden on 9/22/07 Status: FOUND!


Clue:
This week Wofford entered a new "Green Season" with the addition of the sculptures by Mac Boggs. Visit the sculpture and pay close attention to each piece.

Additional Information about this Piece:
As the weather continues to become more and more crisp, the Piedmont begins to put on its best colors. This piece almost looks like a stained glass landscape to me. (Or maybe it is a close up of a butterfly's wing?)

Friday, September 21, 2007

Hidden on 9/21/07 Status: Reported Missing/ Not Registered


Clue:
This piece is hidden at a desolate place that used to be known as Sky City. Sometimes I dream about it becoming a park or a green space again. For now, it remains an empty box that scars our landscape.

Be careful as you look, there are only two lamp posts. Maybe start by looking at those.

Additional Information about this Piece:
I was testing some new art markers to see how they would do "on the road" with this project. I was dabbling with techniques in several different random doodles.

My wife, Patrice, pulled this one out and said I should hide it. She said, "With the weather we have been having these last two days, everybody can begin to identify with this scene." I always try to trust her instincts.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Hidden on 9/20/07 Status: FOUND!

Clue:
To find this artifact, beware of the orange cones on the 295 bypass. At the sports complex, stop into play on the hot pink slides. Look up before you slide down.

This is the site where my family plays our annual winter football game, The Neely Bowl. Talk about memories of permanent wounds!

Additional Information about this Piece:
This piece is unsettling to me as the artist. I think of it as a psychological portrait. If I had to give it a name, I would call it "Stripes." I was thinking about the permanent wounds we can inflict on each other as I drew it.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Hidden on 9/19/07 Status: FOUND!



Clue:
To find this artifact, stop at Converse Cinemas. Before text messaging and cell phones arrived, the pay phone was the best way to call for a ride. Walk past the ice cream shop and check out the relic,... how we would have phoned home after watching E.T.!

Additional information on this piece:
I have a student who is teaching me to read the code in this wide-eyed message. This is a baffled salute to the generation that will change how we all think.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Hidden on 9/18/07 Status: FOUND!



Clue:
To find this artifact, find some daylight in the Broad Walk Parking Garage. Look for the niches that look like they that once held fire extinguishers. This is a great place to watch the sun rise.

Additional information on this piece:
This is my interpretation of a teenager's reaction to discovering that his mom was hunting for art last week with her friends! He did not seem trilled to learn of his mother's wild tale.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Hidden on 9/17/07 Status: FOUND!




Clue:
This artifact is hidden behind a guardrail that helps churchgoers avoid falling from Grace.

Additional information on this piece:
If you just heard about this project in the H-J Weekly, welcome! I hope you will enjoy finding ways to participate. (Thanks for reflecting on my work in your column, Dad! This one is placed in your honor.)

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Hidden on 9/16/07 Status: FOUND!



Clue:
To find this artifact, watch a tennis practice run by Coach Roy Shelton. Look under the bleachers.

Additional information on this piece:
A friend encouraged me to create some pieces that would motivate more students to hunt for art. Maybe this will qualify...

Artist-In-Transit Promo as TXT

Conceptualize!

What is this project?

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.

How can I participate?


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!