How can creativity help us live in harmony with nature? – Dominika Jankowska, Adapt Transform co-curator This is Adapt Transform Stories, a co-created digital series exploring community responses to urban design and creativity. Part of the current Adapt Transform exhibition, in partnership with Oxford Brookes University, this week we’re exploring the timely Environmental stories featured… Continue reading Adapt Transform Stories | Environmental
Month: August 2022
Adapt Transform Stories | Local
How does your street make you feel? – Lucy Jacobs, Adapt Transform co-curator This is Adapt Transform Stories, a co-created digital series exploring community responses to urban design and creativity. Part of the current Adapt Transform exhibition, in partnership with Oxford Brookes University, this week we’re exploring some of the fascinating Local stories, which feature… Continue reading Adapt Transform Stories | Local
Adapt Transform Stories | Personal
What does ‘home’ mean to you? – Hamideh Rimaz, Adapt Transform co-curator This is Adapt Transform Stories, a thematic series exploring community responses to urban design and creativity. Part of the current Adapt Transform exhibition in partnership with Oxford Brookes University, this week we’re exploring Personal experiences of urban spaces, told through works in the… Continue reading Adapt Transform Stories | Personal
Adapt Transform Stories
David Gasca
David Gasca is an environmental scientist and artist. He uses a range of different media from photography, video, mapping, sculpture, printing and painting to investigate the relationships between people, environment and place. By often favouring a birds eye perspective, his investigations changes and patterns in the urban and rural landscape. For the Oxford Map of Trees, he is using laser altimetry data for the city to provide a classic map view of the current urban treescape in Oxford. By considering where trees are now, what patterns exist and how different features are linked we can identify where and how we need to act to expand the network of trees across the city.
This is Adapt Transform Stories, a thematic series exploring community responses to urban design and creativity. Presented alongside our current exhibition Adapt Transform, each week discover a different story told through the exhibition, from deeply personal experiences of home and the city, to the environmental projects transforming our spaces in the face of climate change.… Continue reading Adapt Transform Stories
Women of Black Mountain College | Anni Albers
Anni Albers (1899-1994) led the weaving and textiles workshop at Black Mountain College from 1933-1949. She and her husband Josef were invited to the college in 1933 after the closure of the Bauhaus, where Josef was a professor and Anni a student, by the Nazis. Well into the 1940s, Black Mountain provided a welcoming refuge… Continue reading Women of Black Mountain College | Anni Albers
Review by young artist May | Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe
Simplicity forms the most powerful meanings – Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe at Modern Art Oxford Read a review of our exhibition Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe written by young artist May, who took part in this year’s City as Studio film-making residency for ages 16-19. Words by May Ruth Asawa created beautifully… Continue reading Review by young artist May | Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe
Women of Black Mountain College | Mary Parks Washington
“I didn’t think it would affect me, but it has. That’s what makes it Black Mountain. It’s still living.” – Mary Parks Washington Mary Parks Washington (1924-2019) attended Black Mountain College’s 1946 summer institute, where she met with Ruth Asawa and Gwendolyn Knight, among others. whom she remained friends with. She arrived from the very… Continue reading Women of Black Mountain College | Mary Parks Washington
Women of Black Mountain College | Karen Karnes and MC Richards
“Are you gonna be an earthy person, practical, bound to earth, or are you going to be a dreamer, a visionary? I don’t have to choose. I am both, and I live in the crossing point.” – MC Richards The words of poet and potter MC Richards (1916-1999) go to the heart of the ethos… Continue reading Women of Black Mountain College | Karen Karnes and MC Richards
Women of Black Mountain College | Vera Williams
“You could just put your imagination into practice.” – Vera Baker Williams Vera Williams (1927- 2015) was one of few to formally graduate from Black Mountain College, with a graphic design project creating signage for the college. Author, illustrator, activist and educator, her life was endlessly creative. From the 1970s she produced children’s books, often… Continue reading Women of Black Mountain College | Vera Williams
Women of Black Mountain College | Gwendolyn Knight
Artist Gwendolyn Knight (1913-2005) came to Black Mountain College in 1946 with her husband Jacob Lawrence. Not officially a teacher, she spent lots of time engaging with students, even teaching informal dance lessons. In the 50s she would study dance in New York with Martha Graham’s company. An expressionist painter with a strong interest in… Continue reading Women of Black Mountain College | Gwendolyn Knight