Wind Chime Festival

About Facilitators

Ellie Rae Hunter is a visual artist based in New York. Hunter received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, and has participated in residencies including Triangle (NY), Shandaken: Storm King (NY), Interstate Projects (NY),  Rupert (Lithuania), and Ox-Bow (MI). Recent exhibitions include Sara’s (NY), Almanac Projects (Italy), Lower-Cavity (MA), Loggia (Austria), and Kunsthalle Bratislava (Slovakia). She also curates and facilitates public art programming under the platform Chorus Public Art.

Laurel Schwulst is interested in ambient forms of design and literature, public works as gifts, and the poetic potential of the world wide web. Selected works include “How to Build a Bird Kite” a tutorial published by The New York Times, “Flight Simulator,” a novel travel app for iOS and Android, and “Perfume Area,” a fragrance review project. Schwulst teaches courses at Princeton, Yale, and her own learning initiative “Fruitful School.” As part of these roles and independently, she leads workshops, lectures internationally, and publishes learning materials with venues most recently including Dia Art Foundation, Are.na, British Art Network, University of Tennessee, and University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Previously she was creative director of Kickstarter’s The Creative Independent and designer and front-end developer at Linked by Air.

Objective

Please join us for a fall wind chime workshop and collective listening event. Together we will discuss a history of wind chimes (both conceptual and utilitarian), make our own chimes, and listen to our chimes together in Brower Park. We feel optimistic that stronger fall winds may cooperate and activate our work!

Wind chimes have roots in ancient cultures all over the world. Among many functionalities and histories: in China they are used to maximize the flow of chi, or life’s energy; in Japan they are hung up in the summer and understood as a cooling mechanism; in ancient Rome they were used to ward off evil spirits … We love the idea of wind chimes as an object that has endless connective potential … the way you can understand its presence before seeing it, or the way you reconnect with the movement of the wind and its feeling on your own skin, its spiritual connection, and even its cooling or healing possibilities.

What's Included

• wire and string
• tools for making a windchime
• recycled materials for building windchimes

What to Bring

• Found materials for making a windchime

Disclaimer

This is a 2.5 hour outdoor workshop. Bathroom accessible. In case of inclement weather, we’ll notify participants 2 hours before the start of our program.

For the safety of our community, we would like to kindly remind all participants that masks are encouraged at indoor workshops and going forward, the FM team will have masks available at all programs. In lieu of flu season and the ongoing pandemic, we ask that if you are feeling unwell or experiencing any symptoms of illness, please refrain from attending. Your consideration helps foster a more comfortable and accessible environment.