
The Art Play Pop-Up
The Art Project
Memphis, Tennessee
Dominique Price, Architect
Colin Billings
Maeliosa Barstow
Overview
The Art Play Popup structures an Art Free Play experience by intersecting child-led action painting with The Art Project’s unique spatial strategy. The Art Project concept collects children and caregivers in the same domain, while providing the children with a network of focal nodes that opens the sense of exploration and discovery and creates the secure environment necessary for the child’s immersion into wonder and play.


Mobile components enable re-appropriation by users. Traces of former events elaborate the components of the pop-up installation.
A field of floor paneling designates the central painting area while providng protection for the permanent floor below. Various age groups can participate simultaneously, with access to a variety of surfaces that encourage free-expression. Young artists are able to exercise creativity while reflecting on their art as witnessed by a larger public audience. With layers of additive paint, the final state of the canvas is designed to be removed, a record of the achievement of the event of participatory art.

The Art Project, Jamie Harmon, Jenn Brandt