Do you want your voice to be heard? This art installation can give you the opportunity to amplify your message.
The new gallery space Liv Lab – Watershed Project on Sylva’s Mill St. could offer an interesting opportunity for your voice, sounds or music to be heard.
The giant megaphone was created by artist and teacher Michael Webster.
Webster works as an assistant professor at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC as well as being an artist focusing on installation, objects and photography.
With the help of volunteers on March 31, an installation of the megaphone was put together where anyone can stop by and interact with it. The installation will remain until the Greening Up the Mountains event on April 23.
Prior to the installation, Webster gave a lecture for the students. We had a chance to sit with and chat with Webster about his art and his teaching. Hear what he had to say below.
Webster was invited and introduced by colleague Morgan Kennedy, the assistant professor of sculpture at WCU.
“Thinking about our relationship to the region, we live in this awesome place, but we’re also surrounded by these really rich communities around us. How do we start making relationships with that, you know? So in this case, Michael coming in from the Spartanburg/Greenville area wanting to tap in and have these relationships with our greater community,” Kennedy said.
Webster talked about many of his works throughout the years as well as a bit about his process in making the works and the story behind every piece.
One-piece was ‘Crystal Scaffold’, a work created for the Yardwork exhibition and the Tiger Strikes Asteroid which is a nonprofit with the goal of creating community through art exhibitions.
“They wanted to use the front yard as the exhibition space and have people drive around Greenville… so this work was kind of a continuation of working with crystal as a medium. Part of it was because they wanted the show to be visible at night and so that also corresponded with my interest in thinking about life,” Webster said.
For more on Webster’s work, visit his website. Kennedy is excited that this is the first exhibit/ installation in the new gallery and is planning more to come bringing the art and WCU closer to the community.
