Using nothing but antique hot irons and plastic sheeting, Art of Space is busy constructing huge inflatable art in a warehouse on Drury campus. The plastic sheeting is cut, layered in origami-like folds, and then heat sealed using the irons. The finished piece will be installed at ArtsFest on May 5-6. It will cover an … Read More
Help Art of Space create massive inflatable art that you can climb inside using nothing by plastic sheeting and irons. Next workday: April 28 and 29 from 9 am-3 pm. Come and go as you please! at the Drury Warehouse #3 between the O’Reilly Center and the Architecture building Look for the signs! This inflatable … Read More
Over the weekend, the Art of Space group began construction of an interior Nest at Drury’s C-Street masters studio gallery. The project is woven of irrigation tubing on a wooden armature, and when the Nest is complete, the armature will be removed leaving an open interior space. This interior space will be lined with pillows … Read More
The Art of Space group has big plans for the November First Friday Art Walk. The collaboration of Drury students, faculty, alumni and members of the Springfield community who built the packing tape installation last spring in a vacant Park Central basement are planning to construct a huge “Nest” out of irrigation tubing and zip … Read More
Triangulum, a bronze sculpture by Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt, is a sometimes forgotten gem located in field between the Springfield Art Museum and a historical column-flanked stone stage. Although there is no landscaping or garden paths around the sculpture, it’s worth the walk to view the sculpture from all sides to appreciate the dramatically different … Read More
Christine Kreamer Schilling’s tile mosaic mural “Onward and Upward – Many Roads Lead Home” was dedicated last Thursday at the Boys & Girls Town of Missouri. The interior installation is a collaboration joining the ideas, dreams, and visions of Boys & Girls Town of Missouri residents with the creative and technical assistance of the artist … Read More
Art of Space installation constructed in the basement of Gelato Mia by Drury University architecture students over a two-week period using 200 rolls of clear packing tape.
Looking forward to the new year, it’s also fun to look back. Jonthan Gano, Assistant Director of Springfield Public Works, has given a creative window to the past by hanging an exhibition of historical Park Central Square photos in the darkened windows of the former Mr. Fuuurniture, just next to Coffee Ethic.
Hurray for Bistro Market — they really know how to tend “the garden.” The Garden is a public art installation created by Jennifer and Nathan Falter of Springfield Pottery and installed in 1999 with the help of the former Springfield Program for Public Art. The Garden is a massive piece of work composed of thousands … Read More
The ArtPort, designed and built by Drury University architecture students and faculty, is part of the exhibition space of Sky Gallery at the Springfield-Branson National Airport. The current exhibition which runs until November 18, 2010 features regionally known artists Kat Allie, Dolores Bauer, Roxie Castro, Elizabeth Chapman, Cindy Dawson, Gary St. Ivany, Kyle McKenzie, and Denene Taliaferro