Hexagon Project
Interdependence Day 2009
our reality, our hope, our change
August 31, 2009
Press Release Immediate Release
Michael S. Taluto
(570) 357-3843
Mike@taluto.com
Environmental Artist to be part of Hexagon Project
Scranton, PA- Environmental Artist, Cindy Snodgrass will be present at this year’s opening of the 2009 Hexagon Project on September 4, 2009 at the Melberger Arts Center Gallery at 123 Wyoming Ave, Scranton, starting at 6 p.m.
Snodgrass will do an interactive installation in the windows space both inside and out. This will be her second appearance at the Hexagon Project.
A lifelong connection with nature has empowered her art-making and educational alternatives. Her projects are site and situation specific; often created with communities.
“SOS Fish: about Water” was recently on exhibit in the MIT Stata Center. Snodgrass works to focus the viewers and the participant’s attention on water, climate, and food: balance.
Through her ideas on “social aesthetics” she questions environmental balance and cultural /individual wellness. Her projects expand direct participation in the arts as a way to address social change. At MIT this year [2009] she worked with student’s parents and other community members to expand her “no non-sence sense project;”
”BAU2 Business as UnUsual:” what does it look like? In interdependent workshops, diverse groups of people created Hexagons that focus on MIT students’ international collaborations.
”SOS Fish: About WATER” exhibited in Frank Gehery’s “Fishbowl” the Stata Center, is an example of her traveling collaborations. It has had participation from diverse groups including the Pittsburgh International Children’s Festival and Museum, MIT, Surfrider’s,, NYC Museum for Water, Ohio schools and children from Gee’s Bend.
Snodgrass received her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She chaired textiles at the Cleveland Institute of Art, taught at Washington, Syracuse, and Carnegie Mellon Universities; and has guest lectured at MIT, RISD, Cranbrook Academy and many other places. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the NEA, Heinz Endowment, the Grable Family Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council and 3 catalyst grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
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