Release Date: Thursday, October 7th 2010
Open for Business: Park Here Project by Artist Cyndi Coon
October 9, 2010 – January 29, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, October 8, 7-9pm
Arizona State University Art Museum & Downtown Tempe Businesses
What do the ASU Art Museum, Tempe Chamber of Commerce, Tempe Convention and Visitors Bureau, Downtown Tempe Community (DTC), Local First Arizona, Create Connect, *Scottsdale Public Art and Volunteer Legal Assistance for Artists (VLAA) have in common? They engage, educate, raise awareness and connect communities. In a collaborative effort to create increased understanding and dialogue about local community, these organizations will join forces with local business owners and artists for Open for Business, an exhibition which will take place jointly at businesses of downtown Tempe and an interrelated exhibition in galleries of the ASU Art Museum. The exhibition will involve sixteen Arizona artists exploring, and allowing the audience to explore, businesses of the Tempe community with onsite installations and projects. The work created for the exhibition will address the purpose of each business, challenging the audience to interact with the physical space and purpose of each business. Guide maps to the locations will be produced and available throughout downtown Tempe, Scottsdale and the ASU Art Museum.
The projects intention is to connect local contemporary artists with local businesses in hopes of a mutually beneficial art/business related outcome. The projects will be respectful, relevant and engaged with the actual purpose of that individual business. The projects may have fun with the business and/or its customer, but will not make fun of that business and/or its customer.
For more information about the Open for Business Exhibition visit http://asuartmuseum.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/1606/
Park Here is a project by Tempe based artist Cyndi Coon
After filling out the quick 5 question survey about parking in downtown Tempe you will be eligible to win a Downtown Tempe Community gift certificate and a drawing from the artist. The artist will create a drawing a week from September 6, 2010 through January 24, 2011. Drawings will be on display at the ASU Art Museum as part of the Open For Business exhibition October 8, 2010 through Jan. 29, 2011
For more about the artist visit: www.laboratory5.com
To complete the 5 question survey visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LDRZPZJ
Good luck and thanks for participating!
