All Ages Artmaking: Collective Composition

Floor 3, Artspace

Open to all ages

Artists of all ages are invited to join us for artmaking inspired by artist Christine Sun Kim and explore the survey of her work, All Day All Night.

Kim’s art encourages us to think in new ways about sound and how we communicate. She often creates work that explores her native language, American Sign Language (ASL), in inventive and playful ways. Whether your first language is spoken or signed, her work invites you to reflect on how you express yourself.

In this exhibition, you’ll see pieces where Kim experiments with written music. She reimagines the staff—the set of lines where musical notes are placed. The position of a note on the staff tells the musician how high or low the pitch should be. Without these lines, the notes have no meaning on their own.

Now it’s your turn to create. Start by making your own staff for musical notes. A traditional staff has five straight lines, but you can use as many lines as you like. Try adding lines to a collective composition, creating your own musical notes, or rearranging existing ones as your staff lines wind across the wall. Take a look at what others have made throughout the day and see how you might respond to their creations!