We commission artists to help us design and deploy social interventions. We tend to work with artists that are adept with public art / social practice.
2 examples of our work with artists include:
Gestures Feelings Memories That Aren’t Our Own
In this commission, the artist developed a social intervention that engaged 200 or more young people in performing or investigating a gesture, an idea, or a feeling that they use, yet inherited from somewhere or someone else. This intervention is connected to our larger social campaign against violence, Let’s Flip It. (Photo above is part of this intervention.)
Kelly Sherman, Artist
School Lab
School Lab is a design research project and an interactive installation. It investigates ways everyday school objects, rituals and settings shape students’ experience of school. The point for this look into student experience is threefold:
- to surface less explored ways of thinking about what makes school “school” for students
- to function as a fresh way to speculate about school change and improvement
- to support the capacity of students and youth organizers to imagine the kinds of schools they want, even as they engage in struggles to keep the schools they need
James Schaffroth, Artist
Future Art Commissions
We will post future art commissions on this page as well as on our blog. If you would like to propose an art commission to us, please contact us at: art [at] ds4si.org
