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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

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Frame A Piece, Support The Project

The Art and Frame Gallery has agreed to help support the Artist-In-Transit Project by providing special coupons that will be hidden in the baggies with each artifact!

Here is the deal: You find an artifact. If you choose to get the artifact framed you receive a 40% off discount for the cost of the frame with the coupon you found.

In addition to your savings, 10% of the total cost of the framing ticket will be credited to an account that will offset some of the costs of art supplies like paint, canvas panels, brushes, and inks to help make the Artist-In-Transit project more sustainable.

No one should ever feel obligated to get a piece framed, but if you do, consider using the Art and Frame Gallery and make sure to thank them for supporting the Artist-In-Transit project!

To this point, all of the art supply costs have been at my own expense. It has truly been my pleasure. I have to admit is nice to have the support of a local sponsor to help make it possible to continue this fun project. Thanks to all of you who have already offered your support in so many ways to keep the art moving!

I apologize for the slight break in the action. I am finishing some of my graduate school final writings. That has given us time to get some of these details ironed out. I am getting geared back up to start hiding more art. Stay tuned for the next piece coming soon to a city block near you...
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Anonymous said...

Kris,
Please do not apologize. You deserve a rest and time to complete the writing for your gradutate work.
How nice of the Art and Frame Gallery to support you. I have wondered what the rest of us could do to help or support you in this project. Please tell us what we can do.

December 5, 2007 at 12:29 AM
Steven said...

Enjoy your well-deserved break. And as he does, let the rest of us not forget the google group where we can hide art for one another and keep on our A-game for when the Artist in Transit gets to work again! I have a piece I believe I will hide later today!! Let's see if Kris can beat everyone else and claim it for himself!!

December 5, 2007 at 9:34 AM

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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!