Donations needed for Angel Oak Exhibit: GIVE your old cloths and scrap fabrics a NEW EXPERIENCE
Donate your cloths, textiles and fabrics for a new exhibit, the tree of life, at the Children’s Museum of Lowcountry. This new exhibit is part of the Museum’s new artist-in-residency program.
About the exhibit
The tree of life (working title), will be a collaborative, site-specific installation (exhibit) at the Children’s Museum of Low county. This artwork will be created by Museum visitors (children and their families) and artist-in-residence Jennifer Van Winkle. It will be on view starting late spring 2010.
The tree of life will celebrate the natural treasure, The Angel Oak located near Charleston. The focus of the exhibit will be an activity center (play structure) inspired by the Angel Oak. This activity center will be a large tree design that encompasses most of one of the Museum’s rooms. The tree of life, will be constructed from reclaimed wood, and recycled textiles, including clothing. The intent is to encourage exploration of space—both physical space and the imagination andplant seeds of environmental awareness and stewardship. Visitors will be able to crawl, slide, and move through the spaces. There will be additional areas in the exhibit for hands-on explorations and play related to Nature.
PLEASE DONATE:
Scrap textiles, used clothing and household fabrics (blankets, sheets) needed.
All colors, sizes and textures accepted. (Cotton, polyester, corduroy, silk, velvet, leather, etc.)
Exception, no sweaters (or knit/woven fabric) please.
Long pieces of fabric especially needed ASAP. These pieces will be cut for making braids and large-scale weaving.
Drop-off your CLEAN and used (or unwanted) clothing and textiles to the Museum at 25 Ann Street, Charleston, SC.
Tuesday-Saturday, 9am-5pm and Sunday 1-5pm
Thank you for helping make this new contemporary art experience available for kids!
About the Artist
Jennifer Van Winkle is an installation artist, who creates spaces for people to go inside. Her new body of work begun in 2008, entitled, sustainable creativity: newexperiences>reused materials, involves the creation of sculptures, site-specific installations and collaborative art projects with communities. Sustainable creativity developed from her passion for making large-scale things and building both objects and relationships. So far this series has involved working with textiles, cardboard, paper plastics, and natural materials. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. She will be an artist-in-residency for the Children’s Museum of Lowcountry from March-early June, 2010. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her scientist husband and their big tom cat, Willie.
About the Project
Recyclable textiles and materials are clogging the nation’s landfills and their incineration spews tons of chemicals into our atmosphere every day. The Tree of Life is the Children’s Museum of the Low country’s solution of sustainable creativity that raises environmental awareness and stewardship in Low country children and families. Built by Museum visitors, members and the Museum’s Artist in Residence, this innovative community art installation will be constructed solely of recyclable materials.
The Tree of Life (working title) is a collaborative, community art installation made exclusively of recyclable or reusable materials at the Children’s Museum of the Low country as part of CML’s national Artist-in-Residency program from March – May 2010. The Tree celebrates a national Low country treasure, the 1500 year-old live oak tree, Angel Oak. This innovative art experience (and summer 2010 exhibit) will plant the seeds of environmental awareness and stewardship with the children and families that take part in its design and construction. In addition, the installation of recyclable and reusable materials reduces the need for landfill space and reduces pollution from incinerators. At the completion of the project, the materials are put pack into the recycling system (or nature) to have another “life” beyond contemporary art and our Museum.
