Every first and third Saturday of the month
from 1 to 4 p.m., the Mattress Factory offers Art Lab, an interactive and
hands-on creative session ideal for individuals and families with children of
all ages. Art Lab is free with
admission and projects are developed to complement our current exhibitions and
permanent collection, so please feel free to check out our galleries before or
after Art Lab!
The Art Lab experience for the participant is
representative of the creative processes of the artists at the Mattress
Factory. It is a space intended
for creative experimentation, where ideas can grow and foster. Art Lab is a liberating space for everyone
to have the opportunity to get lost in his or her own creative process.
This Saturday, March 16, Art Lab: Wonder Bred will be hosted by artist and museum educator Derek Reese. Derek’s own
artworks explore common themes of identity through the use and experimentation
of materials. One question
visitors can explore is, “How does the place you are from influence who you
are?” By viewing and interacting
with Derek’s works, visitors will be invited to reflect upon their own
background (whether it be cultural, genealogical, geographical, etc.) and
create their own works of art by using unconventional materials. As a working artist himself, we asked
Derek to relate the Mattress Factory’s Art Labs to his own creative processes
as an artist. This is what Derek
had to say:
I think that Art Lab has the
potential to be an actual laboratory where the artist begins a test, or asks a
question and the visitors, guided by the artist, continues the conversation or
the experiment. Experimentation is
key. Through participating in Art
Lab, I hope that Mattress Factory visitors get a sense of what the art
making process is like for a professional artist, such as the artists with work
being exhibited upstairs in the galleries. I would like everyone to see how important and rewarding
that experimenting, playing and creating can be.
Join us this Saturday, March 16, for Art Lab: Wonder Bred and perform your own artistic experiment with Derek Reese!
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