Mural In Progress!

 
 

Spring is here! And the deadline to putting up our mural is approaching. Get Up Get Down students are working hard on painting and tracing out the piece that will soon be proudly hanging behind Rao's Coffee in Amherst Center. Stay Tuned for more updates!

Opening Night!

Last night our installation project opened at Freedom Trails Gallery! It was a nice evening for us to celebrate the culmination of this collaborative piece with Get Up Get Down and local artists Alicia Renadette and Angela Zammarelli. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work to create this installation that considers, dissects and reconstructs the shoe. Drawing on shoes as a focus of identity, power, consumerism, utility, and mark making, youth and artists have been using the space to explore shoes in their many forms. Stop by Freedom Trails Gallery in Amherst for the next month to see the project. 

Entrance space into the cozy zone of the big cardboard shoe

Landscape of the cozy constellation nook inside the shoe

 Shoe Sculptures, made from dissecting shoes, cardboard, fabric, found objects

Wandering Soles Wall, mud prints, drawing, paper, shoe soles

A huge THANK YOU to Alicia and Angela for their work with our youth on this project, and to Ani Rivera of Freedom Trails Gallery for hosting! 

Youth involved were Tabitha Klamm, Danielle Martin, Katherine Armentano, Josh Rose and Malcolm Reyes. 

Oh the place's we'll go..

For the past few weeks, Get Up Get Down has been working around the theme of shoes and how that is attached to notions of movement and community. On thursday's, we have been working in the gallery space at Valley Frameworks, dissecting shoes and discovering different ways in which we can use old shoes and other materials to create different layers and images that work together to be one group piece. Follow our journey and take a walk in our shoes as we continue to work on what will be a masterpiece... Oh the places we'll go!

Danielle building a giant shoe!

Still working on the shoe... Amilcar working on something in the corner? 

Strips of paper used to experiment with space in the gallery.