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.
