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March 4 - 10, 2013
- LODGING: we are staying at the lake house of the museum coordinator
- Arriving with MMA's table and multiple benches. The table is in two sections: one section is half outside, half inside the glass wall of the museum. The other section is a long and narrow meeting table with benches to accommodate ten persons. We will meet around the table with the museum staff, including the director. We will leave it in Jackson as a gift to the museum. THE MUSEUM IS NOW A COMMUNITY PARTNER.
- ART AND COMMUNITY continues to be discussed and represented. "Why do White people in power think of poor, black kids and areas of deprivation when they hear community?"
- ART AND COMMUNITY continues to be discussed and represented. "Why do White people in power think of poor, black kids and areas of deprivation when they hear community?"
- Stacy, with THE STEWPOT, brings slats of wood painted with poignant questions by Jackson homeless artists. They are woven in an improvised creek springing out of the burned down side of a Farish Street home, adding content.
- POETS Tongo and Kanika, sent by Jason Thompson, write their mind on Farish Street's walls, in poetry. Others may see it as slang, true or too harsh. Kanika wonders if it is appropriate for a public space. PAINTERS bring their works finished on pre-formatted canvases. Once the paintings are hung among the buildings they behave as sails and the top-heavy prop/table are toppled over by the wind!
Tony paints musicians and dancers directly on the bare wood. The Alamo Theatre is missing from the landscape. A representation of it on a new canvas is in progress.
- Add SOUND to Farish Street? We never got to it.
- POETS Tongo and Kanika, sent by Jason Thompson, write their mind on Farish Street's walls, in poetry. Others may see it as slang, true or too harsh. Kanika wonders if it is appropriate for a public space. PAINTERS bring their works finished on pre-formatted canvases. Once the paintings are hung among the buildings they behave as sails and the top-heavy prop/table are toppled over by the wind!
Tony paints musicians and dancers directly on the bare wood. The Alamo Theatre is missing from the landscape. A representation of it on a new canvas is in progress.
- Add SOUND to Farish Street? We never got to it.
- First IMPROV by M!A and a Belhaven movement CLASS. Participation multiplies. Things develop. The project is working!
- Participants BRING THEIR PIECE OF THE FUTURE TO THE GARDEN, plan and do more work in the museum's classrooms.
- More WORKSHOPS away from the museum as well. We activate the props in different ways. They now clearly belong to the work groups . EVERYTHING is possible. Nathan Robertson, an assistant in the previous C3 project, is Jean-Marie's assistant.
- The BRICKS are stacked up, stacked down and replaced....
- Participants BRING THEIR PIECE OF THE FUTURE TO THE GARDEN, plan and do more work in the museum's classrooms.
- More WORKSHOPS away from the museum as well. We activate the props in different ways. They now clearly belong to the work groups . EVERYTHING is possible. Nathan Robertson, an assistant in the previous C3 project, is Jean-Marie's assistant.
- The BRICKS are stacked up, stacked down and replaced....