![]() Students from the NBSU worked with writer-in-residence Juliane Hiam Scribner on a project for this space called Writing on the Walls, creating poems and stories related to the themes in Bua’s CRIBS. Students from the North Berkshire School Union (NBSU) (Savoy, Florida, and Clarksburg, MA) created installations for this space as part of CRIBLIOUSDOME, an off-shoot of CRIBS. The third piece of the installation took place in downtown North Adams at 107 Main Street as part of the annual DownStreet Art festival. Cribs to Cribbage to b-Home Again was a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts. This expansive collection of drawings - which originated with an invitation to a wide range of participants, including established and emerging artists and architects as well as those presenting ideas for the first time - represented unconstrained ideas about building structures. In To CRIBBAGE, visitors found a copy of Visionary Drawing Building (2009), a publication organized and produced by Bua and Max Goldfarb with support from The Joan Mitchell Foundation. ![]() This piece of crib could be entered outside the museum to experience the collaborative “building game” Bua called Architectural Cribbage, a game in which he encouraged others to start constructing their own small-scale visionary spaces. To escape the chaos of the cluttered future that encroached on it, the crib breached the gallery walls, pouring itself down on the museum’s entrance below. The second part of the installation, To CRIBBAGE, was a piece of the crib climbing out of the second-story window of the Kidspace gallery. The installation included a special project by Jesse Bercowetz, and work by Carrie Dashow, Ward Shelley, Lisa Ludwig, and other previous collaborators. Surrounding the crib was an “outro-spective” purging of the artist’s pack-ratted material possessions of random detritus: lost gloves, found paintings, vacation slides, guitars rescued from the streets of New York - all organized into presented collections. CRIBS featured an overloaded crib complete with hanging mobiles, recorded “lullabies,” and the bars that keep the infant safe. Teacher activity guides are developed for each exhibition.CRIBS was a three-part installation project organized by Matt Bua celebrating alternative/experimental architecture. Since 2000, Kidspace MASS MoCA has mounted 25 major thematic exhibitions, and contributed to DownStreet Arts with special exhibitions and a permanent installation-The Bus Stand. Artists are selected for their works’ educational and artistic merit, and exhibitions have featured renowned artists from around the world, including Long-Bin Chen, Devorah Sperber, Portia Munson, Lisa Hoke, Willie Birch, Gajin Fujita, and Tim Rollins and K.O.S. Key to this curatorial vision is that we do not “kiddify” or “dumb-down” exhibitions for children. The art chosen for exhibition is used as a vehicle for discussing contemporary social issues, making evident topics of concern to children, and challenging notions about art and art materials. A child-centered art gallery where professional, contemporary artists exhibit their work, Kidspace is also a hands-on studio where children create and study art. ![]()
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