Locust Projects: Art Builders Exhibition

Saturday, July 13th from 6-8pm experience the Opening Reception of Locust Art Builders Exhibition at Locust Projects. The LAB: Summer Art Intensive for Teens was guided by two professional artist mentors over a four-week art intensive, where students gain hands-on experience building an exhibition from scratch and behind-the-scenes knowledge about careers in the arts. Now in its ninth year, The LAB brings together a diverse group of high school-aged aspiring artists from schools across Miami-Dade County for a four-week Summer Art Intensive for Teens where they learn to build an exhibition from scratch. Each year’s exhibition evolves as a unique and timely reflection of the current issues and ideas impacting youth today. The title of the show, The nauseating dream danced gingerly in the Volkswagen is drawn from a game of exquisite corpse, a chance-based game most notably used by the Surrealists in which a collection of words or images is collaboratively assembled. The whimsical title is meant to play on ideas of originality, authorship, fact vs. fiction, and big data, questioning if certain concepts can really be owned. Through the exhibition the students hope to bring new life to preexisting concepts and ideas and examine the relationship between a rapidly fluctuating world and a generation of teenagers trying to adapt.

Students: Nataly Ballon, Liz Cardero, Paula Carrizo, Miles Chestler, Katherine Cifuentes, Carlton Daley, Claire Joseph, Antonella Labrozzi, Katherine Luna, Mireia Molins, Gonzalo Peña, Chloe Sadorge, Mira Sadorge, M. Jamesly Saint-Louis, Marina Velis. Schools represented: Design and Architecture Senior High, Dillard Center for the Arts, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Beach Senior High, Palmer Trinity School, New World School of the Arts, TERRA Environmental Research Institute.