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Goodbye Blue Sky

8.12.2011
With loose ends tied and bearings gathered, please enjoy this last post to the Identities in Action blog!

The 2011 Blue Sky Project officially ended last weekend with the Final Exhibition.
We hope everyone was able to attend one or some of our performances, and would like to thank those who did. If you missed us, don't worry - we've uploaded photos, and hope to potentially share video documentation.

It's been an amazing summer, and we are incredibly proud of what everyone has accomplished! The BlahBlahs go their separate ways, but our experience at Blue Sky leaves no one empty-handed. Everyone achieved some level of personal growth through the course of the Project - by developing movement, exploring our roles in social media, examining our forms of outer expression, and being more observant of our interactions. We laughed, learned, made new friends and met a lot of talent.



We wish everyone the best and thank you for your hard work!



read the words of our Youth Participants
Alex Wes Alexis Izzy Jalynn


see photos from the Final Exhibition / Performance at our Flickr.com gallery



watch videos of some of our group's collaborations / projects
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Final Performance / Exhibition!

8.01.2011
 
it's time...

This week, we invite everyone to join us and view our performances at the summer 2011 Blue Sky Project Final Exhibition! 

The culmination of everyone's work these past 8 weeks, this Exhibition will feature the art of each Blue Sky group, made collaboratively by their respective Resident Artist, Student Artist, and of course - Youth Participants.

We're excited to show the Dayton community what its creative youth are capable of! Especially when working side-by-side professional artists of different mediums, and in an egalitarian setting where people of different ages and expertise can develop a project together.


INFORMATION


Wednesday – Saturday
August 3 – 6

8 N. Main Street, Dayton, OH
Across from Courthouse Square, next to PNC Bank


•  Wednesday: PREVIEW PARTY, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
($20 admission - Appetizers & Cash Bar) TICKETS

•  Thursday: OPENING NIGHT, 5:00 – 9:00 PM

•  Friday: FIRST FRIDAY ART HOP, 5:00 – 10:00 PM

•  Saturday: FAMILY & FRIENDS CELEBRATION, 6:00 – 9:00 PM 
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Group of the Week, Open Studios & more!

7.17.2011
THANK YOU to everyone who came out this week to see our Group of the Week presentation on Thursday and the Blue Sky Open Studio on Saturday!

We hope you enjoyed the preview of what's to come at our Final Performance/Exhibition, in addition to the side-material and general overview of how the project's been coming along and what we BlahBlahs do day-in & day-out.

For those who couldn't make it, no worries.
The Final Performance/Exhibition is just 2 weeks away! Crazy.

We've been diligently planning and practicing, working on our sound and video, having fun, staying loose, and preparing the Exhibition space (an undertaking everyone at Blue Sky has been cooperating wonderfully to complete - Resident Artists, Student Artists, and Youth Participants alike).

If you haven't done so yet, check out our Flickr.com gallery to see new photos.
Including new vignettes:



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PacSun @ Dayton Mall

6.30.2011
Yesterday (June 29th), we field-tested a variation of our Gesture Study.
The exercise involves observing and mimicking body language, considering how we intentionally and involuntarily behave and present ourselves, and what different factors may influence these movements.

With a big THANK YOU to the Dayton Mall and Sarah from PacSun, the Youth Participants (plus Carolyn Ruck, Student Artist a.k.a Resident Artist's Assistant to Blue Sky Project Resident Artist Marin Abell), were able to pose as live mannequins in PacSun's storefront window display. Fully geared in merchandise, our group surprised and confused Mall-goers - posing, dancing, mimicking their actions and observing their reactions.


video coming soon
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National Social Media Day

This being very relevant to the subject matter of our group's project, we thought you should know: Today (June 30th) is National Social Media Day!

Created by Mashable.com (see event page), it is a day recognizing the ways in which Social Media has changed our lives. How do you use or view Social Media? How do you interact with or communicate through it? Do you prefer some sites or mediums more than others?


Look for our Social Media Survey coming soon!
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Bucket Brigade

6.25.2011
Shared by Blue Sky Project Resident Artist Kaz McCue, documentation of a Bucket Brigade collaboration between his group and ours.

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Snapshot Vignette

6.19.2011
Our "snapshot vignette" exercise relates to these definitions:

  1. A short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, an idea, or a setting and sometimes an object.
    see Vignette (literature)
  2. Collect information by presenting hypothetical situations and asking participants a set of questions to reveal their perceptions and values.
    see Vignette (psychology) 

The objective is to tell a story through a limited number of photographs (around 3-4 shots), capturing expressive body language and use of space, framing, environment, props, etc. 



a MUCH more elaborate example
 
see another example
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