On Monday February 27th MAP started a new project in collaboration with Building Bridges at the Tassafaronga Recreation Center in East Oakland. We will be working with the kids on projects monthly gearing up to an installation of their artworks at the June Oakland Art Murmur’s “First Friday” art walk. For the first visit we worked on a seed planting project where we invited the kids to plant a California Poppy seed and start a Plant Growth Diary!
Hello Friends,
A huge thanks to everyone who stopped by and checked out our our installation ”Form/Perform/Re-Form: The Mind and Body In Motion”at Art Murmur. The event was a huge success and we really enjoyed collaborating with Rock Paper Scissors! A huge thanks to all the amazing fashion models from Bella Bridal Haute Couture Atelier who put on such a wonderful runway show, and Karen and Michael from Lake Merrit Dance for their inspiring performance!
“Form, Perform, Re-Form: The Mind and Body In Motion”
Curated by The Mobile Arts Platform (Peter Foucault & Chris Treggiari) and Rock Paper Scissors
Featuring live Performances by:
7:30 pm Runway Fashion Performance by Bella Bridal Haute Couture Atelier, East Oakland
8:10 pm Dance Performance by Karen and Michael
6:30 – 9:00pm
Interactive Artwork and Games by MAP
Participatory MAP Space Design by Patrick Wilson
Interactive Video Piece by Jonathan Grover
Endurance/Performance video by Jennifer Locke, Justin Hoover, and Will Barclift
Hello friends,
A huge thanks to everyone who made it out to our MAP installation on Thursday September 1st at the Tiffany Ave. Block Party event! For this exhibition we partnered with Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema and featured local film makers, live music, audience created short films and an interactive MAP installation.
For more info please visit: http://mobileartsplatform.wordpress.com/
Here is an article about our upcoming exhibition that appeared in the SF Weekly:
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When art comes into a public space, it’s got to be accessible, right? And if its creators hope to invigorate a community, the experience has to operate at multiple scales, from the intimate to the universal. All this is understood by the people behind the Mobile Arts Platform (MAP), a traveling communal art space that for the past year has rolled up to neighborhood street festivals to bring art to the people, pop-up style.
(Look for it at SOMArts this Sunday afternoon from one to five p.m.)
MAP specializes in alternative ways to experience art in everyday life. Two interactive sculptures — conceived and transported by artists Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari — are brought to festivals and the streets outside of galleries.
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“It is our goal to inspire the passive viewer to become an active participant,” Foucault says. “By offering interactive projects, we invite the viewer to roll up his/her sleeves and take part in the making of an object.” At some of the neighborhood festivals, Foucault and Treggiari commissioned instructors to teach a craft, such as origami or creating stencils, and for the Potrero Festival, MAP partnered with The ‘Nabe, the Potrero Neighborhood House, to reach out to people in the community to star in a talent show.
The basic activities and parameters of each event in the MAP series are conceived beforehand, but most of the artwork is created on-site by the public. During last month’s event at the Precita Eyes Urban Youth Festival in La Raza Park, Foucault and Treggiari popped up a mobile stencil station where people created three-layer stenciled poster of the city’s skyline. “People loved the piece,” says Foucault. “It was amazing to see four-year-olds and eighty-year-olds from every imaginable background working side-by-side to spay paint in stencils.”
Locals are both the input and the output, making MAP a self-reinforcing platform, one that explores and expands what both art and community can be.
This Sunday marks the final event in the MAP series, the Pop-Up Wrap-Up at SOMArts for a one-day only exhibition. Part retr, tective of MAP’s past year and part live art making, there will be a stenciling station by artist James Gregg, a work from Precita Eyes muralist Miranda Bergman, a ready-made picketing project, and a reading of haiku submitted by the public at the Cherry Blossom festival.
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http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/08/mobile_arts_platform.php
Thanks to everyone who stopped by Pop-Up Wrap Up! Was an amazing afternoon filled with interactive artmaking and a retrospective of MAP artists we worked with in 2010-11. Here are some pics from the event:
What: Mobile Arts Platform Pop-Up Wrap-Up Exhibition
Where: 934 Brannan St. (between 8th & 9th)
When: Sunday, August 14, 1-5PM
How much: Free admission
This free public event event marks the last in series of five collaborative exhibitions for 2010 – 2011. Pop-Up Wrap-Upcelebrates the many creative forces who contributed to and interacted with mobile participatory art structures conceived by lead artists Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari.
Pop-Up Wrap-Up features participatory art making activities as well as original artwork produced by collaborating local artists and by the public at four prior interactive pop-up exhibitions at SOMArts and the Potrero Hill Neighborhood, Northern California Cherry Blossom and Urban Youth Arts festivals.
The retrospective component of Pop-Up Wrap-Up includes a mural by Miranda Bergman and ergonomically innovative seating and structural installations by Furniture Design and Architecture MFA students from California College of the Arts.
In addition, Pop-Up Wrap-Up will display video and digital media content commissioned for and displayed at the neighborhood exhibitions: live poetry and performance from the Potrero Hill Neighborhood Festival, video combining historic and contemporary photographs of Potrero Hill by artist and Interim Director of Cultural Affairs JD Beltran, a short documentary about Bay Area murals by John Urquhart, Chris Treggiari and Peter Foucault, and video by Peter Foucault and Nico Crisafulli featuring street art from India & Berlin.
Pop-Up Wrap-Up revisits three participatory projects included in MAP’s installations at the Urban Youth Arts and Cherry Blossom festivals. Artist James Gregg will produce a new set of stencils for an interactive stencil art assembly station. Pop-Up Wrap-Up also resurrects the Yes, We Can ________ Positive Picketing Project, which allows any member of the public to create a mini- pronouncement of values by customizing a ready-made protest style sign with their own message. There will be a live reading of haiku submitted by the public at the Cherry Blossom festival, as well as an opportunity to submit new haiku.
A HUGE THANKS to everyone who came out and participated at our MAP sites last Saturday at La Raza Park ! The event was an amazing success and resulted in a afternoon filled with many modes of participatory art making. Below are some pics:
MAP four layer stencil design by artist James Gregg
All photos by Shannon Foshe.
Here is a link where you can check out “On The Wall” a collaborative video by John Urquhart, Chris Treggiari and Peter Foucault documenting the Bay Area mural scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bOPU6Bb1_Y
Also a link to view our community sourced mural documentation slide show, where we invited people to submit pics of their favorite murals in the city!
What: The Mobile Arts Platform (MAP) installs at the Urban Youth Arts Festival
When: July 23, 1PM – 5PM
Where: Potrero Del Sol/La Raza Skate Park (25th and Utah)
How Much: Free
What Else: Click here for more information about the Festival
SOMArts Cultural Center, presents a one-day-only Mobile Arts Platform installation in collaboration with the 15th Annual Urban Youth Arts Festival, hosted by Precita Eyes. The special temporary exhibit will focus on urban art forms and will include:
- Murals by Miranda Bergman
- Video slideshows of murals from around the world by Nico Crisafulli
- Interactive stencil at production by James Gregg
- Participatory mural painting by Nicole McClure
- Collaborative video documenting local murals by Peter Foucault, Chris Treggiari, and John Urquhart
- A crowd-sourced street art slideshow
- The “Yes, we can ________” Positive Picketing Project
- Pop-up exhibition seating and structural installations by CCA Furniture Design and Architecture MFA students
All artwork produced at this event throughout the day, including the stencils, Positive Picketing signs, and murals will be instantaneously uploaded to the an online gallery where it will available for public viewing for our online community.The public can also exhibit their art both photographic and street focused by submitting images to our online crowd-sourced street art United Murals Flickr Group to be displayed in a digital slide show on our website and live at the event. Full instructions for submitting images can be found here.
Call to photographers, street artists, and muralists – interactive urban art exhibition!
What: Submit your street photography to the Mobile Arts Platform Exhibition at the Urban Youth Arts Festival.
How: Participate through the United Murals Flickr Group, full instructions below.
Deadline: Upload photos by July 20th, 2011
Questions: Email ayanda@somarts.org
Have you ever made a mural or street-based artwork, or taken a picture of an existing piece that you would like to share? Now’s your chance! SOMArts Cultural Center and the Mobile Arts Platform seek muralists and photographers to participate in the Mobile Arts Platform exhibition at the 15th Annual Precita Eyes Urban Youth Street Art Festival. A slide-show of the submitted photos will be displayed at the Festival on Saturday July 23rd from 1-5PM, as well as in a special online gallery on the SOMArts website.
How to Participate
Just submit your photos to the United Murals Flickr Group with a photo credit, title, and quick description of where you snapped your photo. If you encounter problems while uploading, please email ayanda@somarts.org by July 20th for assistance. All images must be owned by the person submitting them – they cannot be photographs taken or owned by another person or entity.
