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A Handmade Assembly

March 7, 2013 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in community arts, contemporary art, Research

A Handmade Assembly Organized by Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre with the Owens Art Gallery and Thunder & Lightning Ltd, A Handmade Assembly invites artists, curators and others from the region and away to lead discussions, facilitate workshops, initiate projects, open exhibitions, and share in a common thread, the handmade. Now in its […]

Car culture: Max factor

October 12, 2011 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in

By Stephen Bayley, published in The Telegraph (UK) The Max Power event in Birmingham reveals a parallel universe of naked gusto and feral cravings, says Stephen Bayley When I read Tom Wolfe’s The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby on my knee in a school maths lesson, I immediately identified with it. Apart from the inimitably brilliant […]

power tool drag racing

September 6, 2011 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in

POWER TOOL DRAG RACING Buzzing along at 7500 rpm, the AGYU and youth from the Jane and Finch Boys and Girls Club stirred up some dust in the attempt to feather out the division between art and trades with serious abrasive power. This eight-week artist and trades professional led afterschool community arts program, designed by […]