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The Color Project TM
submitted by Darcy Meeker
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Project
Darcy Meeker
2018
Blacksburg, VA United States
Artwork Budget: 50000
Project Team
Artist
Darcy Meeker[ contact info ]
Client
FloydFest Industry Resource
Chris AngileriThankQ tech
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Overview
The Color Project TM presents a kinetic art experience of projective, refractive, reflective and absorptive light. We offer a fun approach to exploring color -- printing colors (cyan, magenta and yellow) and TV colors (red, green and blue).
We fabricate our sculptures out of industrial grade materials that are waterproof, shatterproof and highly vandalism-resistant.
Our installation includes Lollipops, Benches, a row of framed acrylic mirroring, a Solarium, solar LED lighting and The Chromilluminator photobooth.
The project can have a footprint as small as 4 x 3 feet, or 20 x 20 feet or larger in a library plaza or theme park.
Goals
The Color Project TM was granted an museum exhibition for April 2019. At the time, I had only completed plans and maquettes.
During the spring and summer of 2018, we applied to a dozen art shows, street fairs, and festivals. My hope for public art events was that we would be juried into a few. Instead, we were chosen for every one, the largest of which was a five day music festival with a twenty thousand person audience. Our season began with a gallery show of eighty fine art works and ended with a youth science festival entertaining 5,000 students.
The installation is modular and easily transportable. Each component stands alone, or in the case of FloydFest, can be installed in full for a LightArt Park.
The design and installation was inspired by the need for one collection of public art that met the diverse requirements of each client in our summer/fall line up and the 2019 museum show.
Process
Darcy Meeker, artist and founder of The Color Project TM , has been expanding her public art experience for more than 20 years. Elizabeth Shukwit (personal assistant) was focusing on RFPs and RFQs for public art and marketing of Darcy’s fine art.
When we were juried into more shows than expected, we put out a call to friends and family for help. Jim (grant writer), Chris (multimedia specialist) and Cameron (artist and fabricator) came to our rescue. We discovered how quickly and easily we work together, and formed a design and fabrication team, rented a second studio space and plunged into the work.
Darcy supplies an endless stream of ideas and guides us as Creative Director of The Color Project TM. Elizabeth is now Artistic Director of the team and assists in fabrication. We do all of our web design, graphic design, software programming, systems design and videography editing in-house thanks to Chris Angileri. Our lead artist and fabricator Cameron Stallings airbrushes all of our public art structures and Jim Pease, our Ph. D. grant writer, is instrumental in keeping our feet grounded in the business challenges of art and is why articles like this read easily.
Additional Info
Our dedication to creating public art experiences that inspire curiosity and deep appreciation of each other’s creative talents has made for a successful and fun collaboration.
We have ideas for collaborations with municipalities to increase safety, visibility and functionality using public art. We have plans for temporary public art projects using digital murals as luminous placeholders while more permanent installations are installed.
We have recently partnered with Equity Through The Arts. ETTA is a foundation that focuses on creative placemaking, reinventing, sustainability and technology by investing in public art projects.
Video
Chromilluminator
Duration: :21