Amazing FIGMENT Terrace Time Lapse – Construction and Opening Weekend!
Check out this amazing timelapse video by FIGMENT Artist Chris Jordan… of the FIGMENT NYC minigolf course, pavilion, and sculpture garden in FIGMENT Terrace under construction from May 20 to 22, 2011, and then check out the intense opening weekend crowds on May 27 and 28, 2011! Wow! FIGMENT GO time from Chris Jay on [...]
Lessons of a FIGMENT Sculpture Garden first-timer (Part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of Katherine Gressel writing about the FIGMENT 2010 “Pallet City” project she co-built with Jeremy Reed and a team of dedicated volunteers. See here for part 1. Please visit the Pallet City Blog for full coverage of “Pallet City.” Planning a City: Public and participatory art involves taking risks, but it is also [...]
Lessons of a FIGMENT Sculpture Garden first-timer: (Part 1 of 2)
Katherine Gressel writes about the FIGMENT 2010 “Pallet City” project she built along with Jeremy Reed and a team of dedicated volunteers. Part 2 follows next week. Please visit the Pallet City Blog for full coverage of “Pallet City.” Neither of us had ever done a public sculpture before. Jeremy was a trained architect. I [...]
Maker’s Diary: Sparky’s Wheel of Tesla
When you do something, you learn something, and sometimes, those around you do, too: Artists Kathleen and Jesse Green talk about their FIGMENT 2010 creation, Sparky’s Wheel of Tesla!, where the exclamation point means both, “Be excited,” and, “Watch out.” The Invisible Wheel*: Installed in the FIGMENT 2010 Sculpture Garden, Sparky’s Wheel of Tesla! looked [...]