Salina Art Center

March 06, 2009 — May 17, 2009

To post and view comments in conjunction with this exhibition, visit Robert Bubp’s blog, http://www.vvpsalina.blogspot.com.

Vision / Voice / Plan:  Salina will explore residents’ interpretations of what the community of Salina should be in the next 25, 50, or 100 years. Through a series of interactive workshops in the late summer and fall of 2008, Wichita artist Robert Bubp will facilitate an artistic conversation via collage, text, photographs, and discussion on a series of “planning” topics that include: cultural amenities, housing, schools, homeless shelters, green spaces, and community centers. From the workshops, Bubp will create artist interpretations to be assembled as part of a mixed-media installation that will incorporate the communities’ and artist’s drawings, text, and video. Bubp’s collaborative project centers on ideas of community planning, and the significant issues that face Salina and many cities of its size. Vision/Voice/Plan:  Salina seeks to ask substantive questions of what elements define a city, what forms should a city take, for whom does it exist, and whose perceptions and perspectives drive the community-building process? The final exhibition, both a conceptual and experiential exercise, seeks to create a dialogue of the expectations and potential biases of individuals, while publicly presenting the creative proposals of the Salina community through the “lens” an artist.