Out of the Blue Studio
Athens, GA | 2015
In 2015 as my thesis project for my Master’s in Art Education, I renovated, fathomed, and produced an experimental pop-up art studio called Out of the Blue. Through the studio pop ups, I collected data on drawn responses to visual prompts about drawing, experimentation, and social justice. The studio was run out of a vintage camper — I toted the thing around several places in Athens, GA (breweries, schools, street corners, etc). The purpose was to invite strangers into the space, and ask them to participate in a collaborative sketchbook project. There were 50+ sketchbooks laying around the inside of the trailer. Each had a prompt. Some were goofy (draw a robot or an alien) and some were not (draw a representation of how you perceive racism in Athens, GA). Throughout the process, I observed and recorded data of what prompts folks chose, the drawings they created, and why. And eventually, wrote an 150 page paper about it.
