Garden Tool Storage Shed Charette
New York artist/designer Allan Wexler will be holding a workshop with 20 students at the Fine Art Center. The subject: to design and prototype a garden tool storage shed in an eight-hour group brainstorming effort known in architecture as a ‘charette’.
Beginning with the activity of raking a small area of lawn, students working with Wexler will creatively rethink the elements of tending, nurturing, sheltering, of the implements of cultivation and their care, and our relationship to them. Reflecting the mission of the new Master of Architecture program at Umass Amherst, students will come from a variety of
disciplines including architecture and design, studio arts, art history, public history,landscape architecture, building materials, engineering, and the liberal arts.
The public is welcome to come view their efforts and even to throw in an opinion or two.
This workshop is an exciting supplement to the University Gallery’s 30th anniversary lecture series, "In Conversation," that highlights the contributions of artists like Wexler over the years.
Allan Wexler is a sculptor and industrial designer known for applying his unique vision to making structures, furniture and usable objects. His provocative body of work, spanning more than thirty years, is comprised of studies and experiments in modes of building and design -- meditations on form and function.
The workshop runs from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. with a break from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.