Mary Carothers
Materials: Rearranged cardboard banner greetingsLocation: Women's bathroom, , Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville
I know this feeling, do you?
Brigid Watters
3 inch miniature birdhouseLocation: A tree, Louisville
Amerisa Waters
Random Arts of Kindness
Materials: Photographs, cardstock, Sharpie, stampsLocation: Borders, Gardiner Lane Shopping Center
Materials: Photographs, cardstock, Sharpie, stampsLocation: Borders, Gardiner Lane Shopping Center
Materials: Rinestones, glue, candle previously purchased from the DollartreeLocation: Dollartree, Bardstown Square Shopping Center
Rosslyn Steinmetz
Material: CeramicLocation: Off-Broadway Shoes, Shelbyville Road
Mitchell Noah
Materials: Glass, rubberLocation: First and Market, abandoned building
Something potentially dangerous placed in an already dangerous spot.
Crystal Ludwick
Location: Cherokee ParkMaterial: Spray paint on wood with string
I have never been fully supported artistically from my family. I believe that childhood dreams are vital to growth and development, so I placed my piece on a playground to encourage children AND their parents to be open-minded.
Nick Linares
Swedish Fish in CyanideLocation: Unknown
Elizabeth Johnson
Basic Waltz StepMaterials: Chalk
Location: TARC bus stop, Eastern Parkway, near the Medical Arts Building
Samantha Grose
Materials: Spray paint and snowLocation: Louisville Suburbs, Grandma's house
Jimmy Devore
"Cairns"Materials: Stone
Constructed, balanced piles of stone, left where they belong.
Lucy Brown
The bull-eyes were screen-printed on recycled paper and attached to a row of ash trees in Bingham Park, located on lower Brownsboro road. The ash tree population has been suffering from a species of ash borer that was brought in through shipping crates from Asia. Millions of ash trees have died due to the introduction of the Emerald Ash Borer and it is just a matter of time before it reaches Kentucky. Although there is little hope for the ash tree, it is important to raise awareness of how delicate our ecosystem is to species that are introduced through the processes of man. Louisville is a city of trees and the absence of the ash tree will have an inevitable impact on the landscape of the city and it's environment.Lexi Bass
Is the concept of mystery still alluring in today's e-communication society? With the ability to find city addresses and solve friendly pop culture disputes on an iphone or laptop in a moment's notice, at the click of a button, could someone still be perplexed by a riddle or an object of curious origin? I created a treasure map and hid it in the city for some lucky or unlucky bystander to happen upon, but proving my hypothesis correct for the first 5 days, the little trinket of feigned antiquity remained in it's not-so-hidden-place inside a crosswalk button cavity. The map's seal had been broken the first day, but crinkled, it was obvious someone had puzzled briefly over the message inside (a recipe in the form of a map) and shoved it back in its hole. I relocated the object again to make it more noticeable and provocative, but again I found it shoved deep inside the crosswalk pole. I came back and moved it to the forefront once more, but discovering it unmoved for several days in a row was disillusioning... finally I didn't see it there anymore, and like the triggered catch and release mouse-trap with no scurrying sounds from inside, I was filled with the anxiety of what had happened. Had it fallen out and blown away? Was it shoved so far into the cavity that I could no longer find it? Or was it taken? Kept? Trashed? Used? I created a Hollywoodesque account of what I hoped happened to my trinket, but as the Tootsie Pop Voice Over reiterates, "the world may never know."
