Laboratory Works

This evening the University of Georgia's School of Landscape Architecture presented Richard Saxton and his work with Municipal Workshop. Saxton, trained as a sculptor, birthed the idea for the Workshop in 2002. Today, the Workshop is "dedicated to the creation and facilitation of contemporary public art projects in hopes of creating more creative and dynamic cities and townships". (see: municipalworkshop.com)
In his lecture, Saxton highlighted the communal successes that Municipal Workshop has made possible in areas of need. The Workshop seems to take root quickly wherever it goes- gaining local governments' support, recruiting volunteers, planning and gathering resources. What results are appealing and beneficial structures and systems for the public good.
Municipal Workshop will be on hold until 2008 as Saxton takes residency at Switzerland's The Wall House and works on plans for taking the Workshop global. "Laboratory Works," a survey of Municipal Workshop's works to date - including drawings, prints, proposals, photographs, and videos- will be on display in the Circle Gallery, Caldwell Hall, the University of Georgia, through April 4, 2007.

Also: Nina Bovasso's exhibition "The Cartographer's Podiatrist's Underestimation of a Melancholic Toe (Contemporaneous Mappings of the Spirit, Body and Mind)" will be coming down on Friday, March 9, so head over to the Lamar Dodd Main Gallery and take a look while you can. Her paper diptychs swirl and implode to create states of color trauma. See it to believe it...