Urban Garden Community Drawing

Within Steve Prince's art exhibit Armour of God in the Olson Gallery, we will collectively create a 30-foot drawing based on the theme, Urban Garden, utilizing charcoal in an additive and subtractive manner—all are welcome to join in creating this drawing as a community. The big questions we will ponder are: What is planted in America’s garden that perhaps needs to be interrogated, examined, or removed, and conversely, what should we plant in its place? What should or could we be nurturing?

Urban Garden is a project that will ask community members to draw on one side of the compositional space metaphorical imagery of the problems that they recognize as endemic to the United States and the Bethel community that need to be uprooted; on the opposing side of the compositional space, participants will be encouraged to create images of what they would like to plant and grow once these problems have been addressed. By the end of the exercise, we will have created a metaphorical Urban Garden that creatively addresses the issues embedded in the soil of America, for better or for worse.