Sunday 05.23.10
The Mission: To create an interactive, temporary community out of trash.
This is a commissioned art installation piece for the C-Street Jam. This takes place June 26th on Commercial street.
We are a group of local artists, creative and radical thinkers and doers, who have joined together to make a city entirely out of discarded materials.
The purpose is tri-fold…One, to make art on a collaborative and community level. Two, to be interactive and stimulate ideas, dialogue and imagination. Three, to educate and inform the public of the environmental issues we face, while encouraging individual, local and global acts
Trash City is inspired by a future without the environmental luxuries we have today...
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Come see the final pieces from Art Factory 417's Art-a-thon!
The Art-a-thon was from 6pm on Saturday July 17, 2010 until 6am Sunday July 18, 2010. The public was invited to watch the artists, hang out, and talk to them about the art they were making.
For questions, please send them to info@artfactory417.org
Contributing artists:
Chad Thomas
http://www.whiterabbitart.net/
Justin Gault,
http://www.facebook.com/pages/strang-attraktors/
H. E. Croan
http://hecroan.tumblr.com/
Kristen Atkinson
http://www.flickr... 
Springfield Skillshare's first session will cover DIY screenprinting with inexpensive and readily-available materials. This easy and fun technique works on fabric or paper. Attendees will create a screen based on their own designs and use pre-made screens to print their own items. Please bring a blank T-shirt or sheet of poster paper for printing; all other materials will be provided. 
