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August 16, 2004

December 1, 2004
March 25, 2005

Upcoming Creative Residencies

Nov 29 - Feb 11:
Susan Meyer, installation artist, will create an in-process mixed-media installation titled “The Voyager” in the main gallery and work with youth in the back gallery to create real and imagined 3D landscapes with photography and mixed media.

Feb 14 – March 25:
“Mile High Stories”, digital story telling with Tim Roessler, Hugh Graham and Daniel Weinshenkler. This artist-team will create personal narratives or mini-documentaries, lasting 2-3 minutes each, of greater Denver’s residents, targeting diverse communities. Additionally, the digital stories created through their workshops with youth will be looped with their work as a gallery installation and published through a website.

March 28 – April 23:
Jake Adam York, poet, “A Map of Denver.” Over the past several months, Jake has been working on a long poem that records his journeys “through space and time through the city, creating a mental map collaborating with writers and students at UCD. He will use his PlatteForum residency as a “benchmark” for mapping the Platte River Valley. The goal is to create a personal “map” over 40 pages long. The conclusion of the residency would be a “Progressive Reading”– taking place over a series of locations and ending via a “trail” at PlatteForum, where visual poems, created by Jake, youth and the community, will be written and projected on the walls.

May 1 – June 10:
Vincent Comparetto, will create a sound installation – digital animation comprised of a “labyrinth” of hanging speakers with various audio tracks. The speakers will each be lit by a low wattage light source and hung at varying heights. Tracks of music and mixed soundscapes interspersed with audio from recordings with children will be integrated into the piece. The youths’ work interprets their dreams through sound and animation.

 

PlatteForum News

August 16, 2004

“Thanks for teaching us better ways to express our feelings and make them into art…and for making us feel like there are people out there that care about us.”
Greg G., participant from Joan Farley Academy with Creative Resident Tola Wewe

Greetings!

SUMMER 2004 ADVENTURES AT PLATTEFORUM

During the month of June, kids participated in wildly exciting art adventures at PlatteForum. We took rafting trips down the Platte River with River Reach Youth Initiative, exploring the riverbanks with digital cameras to capture hidden secrets, getting soaked in the rapids and having a blast. We went on Photo Scavenger Hunts and navigated our way through the Riverfront Community. We created magic photogram prints on the riverbanks and left secret organic sculptures behind for others to discover. We learned about the construction of the millennium bridge and investigated different angles and perspective with our digital cameras to use the images in collaged and 3-D art pieces.

98 kids + 7 workshops = Fun !

These images were taken by kids who participated in the workshops with their digital cameras. Some created fantastic 3-D constructions and collages.


















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