A collaborative installation I facilitated at Phillip Brooks School in San Francisco. This installation is made from 200+ individual sculptures, created from 250+ students from K-5, using all found + recycled materials. These workshops were centered around material exploration, transformation, play, and intuition, mimicking my own creative process. Belongings lives in their school library; I love imagining students’ spending time with the installation, searching for their sculptural contribution - seeing their piece as part of a larger whole.

Created in collaboration with PBS’ art teacher, Keriann Armusewicz.

Photo Credit: Jon Wheatley

Recycled Materials
2018

Transformations is an installation made from 100+ individual sculptures, collaboratively created by 200+ students from Pre-K to 9th Grade at British International School in New York, where I was a visiting artist for one week. Working with found and recycled materials, students were challenged to transform the materials into something interesting and unrecognizable, while working within a colour family. Students of different grades continuously built off of each other’s sculptures demonstrating the spirit of collaboration and adaptation. The expressive workshops were centered around material exploration, transformation, collaboration, play and intuition, mimicking my creative process. Reflecting the idea of Transformations, in this process, students transformed both discarded materials and transformed an often overlooked space in the school community. How can these small transformations inform our own power to transform ourselves, our surroundings and our world?

I facilitated the workshops and the installation, in collaboration with the school’s amazing art teachers, Alana Grainsky and Laya Ballesteros. The process of this installation was adapted from Belongings, which I developed with art teacher Keriann Armusewicz.

Recycled Materials
2019