Another Memorial Day weekend at Art All State. The 2010 Art All State at the Worster Art Museum was another great experience. For those who are not familiar, Art All State is a like the high school championship for art students in Massachusetts, only instead of competing students break into groups of 18 with two artist mentors (one being myself) and work together to build an installation exhibited in the museum. This year my fellow mentor and I choose rice and string as the materials students could use for their installation. We were also given a huge bolt of charcoal felt as a surprise material for the piece. We looked at three pieces of art from the Museum’s collection to create a concept for the project:

• John Farnham’s Gentleman Pensioner to Elizabeth
• Do-Ho Suh’s who am we?
• KTICIC Foundation
  

The student quickly got to work. Their concept played with the idea of individualism and community.

Students review as a group and plan their next steps.

Pouring rice. They made some hands too.

Final installation.

The students did a great job it was a pleasure to work with them. What an amazing piece of art.

See the Art All State work form 2008 and 2009.