MSU Students Explore Home through Multimedia Installation at MICA Gallery
Lansing, Mich. – As part of the First Sunday Gallery Walk in Old Town, students from three different MSU courses are working collaboratively to produce a multimedia event called “That Familiar Place: House and Home” that will take place at MICA Gallery on Sunday, May 1. Using photographs, poetry, and dialogue, these students help us to confront fundamental questions that pertain to place and identity: What is home? How do the identities of people and places develop and become intertwined? How do physical objects and structures – streets, bricks, sidewalks, and buildings – acquire the meaning and significance associated with phrases like “my home,” “my home town,” and “my neighborhood”?
WHAT: That Familiar Place: House and Home (a multimedia installation)
WHERE: MICA Gallery, 1210 Turner Street, Old Town, Lansing
WHEN: May 1, 2011, 12:00-5:00pm. Student readings at 1-1:20, 2-2:20, & 3-3:20. (Photo exhibit lasts through May 31; MICA Gallery regular hours are 9-5 Monday-Friday.)
All of the students contributing to this installation are in MSU’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, an interdisciplinary “living and learning community” focused on art, culture, and civic engagement. These students are enrolled in one of three upper-level courses taught by professors Eric Aronoff, Anita Skeen and David Sheridan.
“Our focus is on the relationship between Old Town and the surrounding North Lansing neighborhoods,” says Sheridan. “Those neighborhoods are right next door to one of the densest hubs of creative professionals in the state.”
Old Town is known as a local center for art, culture, and creative professionals. Many economists see creative centers like Old Town as the key to future economic prosperity. They represent Michigan’s transition to a “creative economy.”
“We are interested in exploring the ways that the success of Old Town can nurture the creativity of young people who live in the surrounding neighborhoods and who might be interested in video, music, and other forms of creative expression,” Sheridan explains.
For more information on MSU RCAH or “Home,” contact David Sheridan, 517-884-1326, sherid16@msu.edu. Download show poster here.
With the support of the City of Lansing Arts & Cultural Grant Program funded through the Lansing Economic Development Corporation with help from the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, Inc.
with help from the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, Inc.
Michigan Institute for Contemporary Art (MICA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit serving as a catalyst for quality arts programming. For more information about the MICA Gallery, call 517-371-4600 or email info@oldtownarts.org.
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