The images shared here highlight Laura’s current public social engagement project is The Art in The Everyday Community Quilt Project. The images highlight images of the locations and several of the larger events.
History - The project began in Calgary Alberta and was proposed as its first stint as a community social engagement project to the Volcano Art Center in Hawaii. The Hawaii Craftsman Art organization supported the effort with the help of Evan Jenkins a well know glass artist in Hawaii. while there Wailoa Art Center hosted a workshop and remote participation. One of the teacher participating from the Maui assisted in finding a location at University of Hawaii Maui Library while Laura continued hosting workshops in various locations. Right before covid Laura presented the project in at the College Art Association Conference in Chicago in conjunction with the WCA. This presentation included a workshop. During covid it proposed to appear in part in conjunction with a prestigious exhibition at Metropolitan State University Visual Art Center in The Walls Between Us. The project was proposed at a Denver CO area recreation center to get the center invigorated after covid with an installation of the project and 3 workshops. Growing to 37 feet long. Next stop it was installed in entirety at fooLPRoof contemporary art gallery in the burgeoning RiNo Art District. It received a little write up in DARIA and was reinstalled to photograph it in entirety along a 45 foot wall. Next stop was the Maryland Institute for Art where with participation grew to 60 feet long
This project is dimensionally variable and able to be fitted to any commercial, municipal or commercial space for display or community participation. The project is currently 4 - 10 x 12 foot panels (and growing) that may be broken down into smaller panels or display in large format as well as shapes. Laura invites social engagement, inviting individuals, corporations, universities, classrooms, communities, community organizations, corporate event groups and individuals to participate. She is scheduling stops for its travel through 2026. So far through 2022 she has taken the project for installation, presentation, workshops, workshop at a national art conference Chicago, during covid the project grew and was exhibited in a reduced format locally in conjunction with a group exhibition at the CVA in Denver and then to get a community center re-opened from covid at the Englewood Recreation Center for seniors. It is scheduled to be installed in an exhibition this summer in 2022 at fooLPRoof contemporary art gallery from August 5th to November 26th 2022 in its full form 37 feet
The project is currently installed, in its entirety, in Denver Colorado in the RiNo Art District at fooLPRoof contemporary art gallery at 3240 Larimer St. Workshops are scheduled in September and as always - Remote participation is welcome. The artist prepares packets to distribute participation pieces by pickup or mail.
The project has its own Facebook page to review the 600 individual participation submissions so far.
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