Artist Challenge: Creating out of the box with a bunch of boxes — let’s make it happen

printer half case boxes

Attention Artists:  Every other month, after the distribution of the new issue of our magazine, Jasper is left with close to 100 very nice and relatively unharmed corrugated cardboard boxes. The boxes measure approximately 9″ x 10″ x 12″ and are commonly called “printer half cases.”

Joe, accompanied by assistants Rose (left) and Ralphie (right) exits box cave, clearly exhausted.

While the cats at Jasper’s home in the woods most assuredly enjoy spelunking through these boxes, they are already quite spoiled with wonders to explore and we can’t help but think that the good artists of Columbia might have an even better idea for how to best  re-use, re-cycle, and re-claim these boxes in the name of ART.

What ideas pop into your infinitely creative heads about ways to make art from these boxes?

Challenge:   Jasper would like to sponsor the creation of a temporary site specific art installation with our empty boxes acting as the foundational, if not primary, building blocks of the exhibition.

  • We can provide you with 50 or more empty Jasper boxes in March — more in May, June, July, etc., if your project requires them.
  • We can assist you in procuring the other supplies you may need for your installation, though we can’t be responsible for a financial outlay that exceeds 30 bucks.
  • We will be happy to help facilitate, to the best of our abilities, arranging the use of the specific site you select, but we cannot guarantee we’ll be successful. That said — we think you should just go for it and we also adhere to the adage that sometimes it’s better to just not ask.
  • Finally, what we can guarantee you liberally is lots of attention for your installation art project. We will blog about you, give you a page on our website, share your project via social media as well as with our other media buds, and write a story about you and your project in the pages of Jasper.
  • The location of site must be in the environs of the Greater Columbia Arts community, so within a 25 or so mile radius of the city.
  • Our deadline for completion of the project is flexible, dependent upon how long and how many boxes you need to make this baby happen. That said — you need to tell us when you plan to have your project completed and when you plan to display, and you need to stick to those deadlines. We aren’t messing around here.
  • Send your ideas in whatever kind of elaborate or simplistic form they come to you to editor@jaspercolumbia.comby Monday, February 6th. The winning plan will be chosen by the editorial staff of Jasper Magazine – The Word on Columbia Arts.

 

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About Jasper

What Jasper Said is the blogging arm of Jasper – The Word on Columbia Arts, a new written-word oriented arts magazine that serves artists and arts lovers in the Columbia, SC area and its environs in four ways: Via Print Media – Jasper is a bi-monthly magazine, releasing in print six times per year in September, November, January, March, May & July, on the 15th of each month. Jasper covers the latest in theatre and dance, visual arts, literary arts, music, and film as well as arts events and happenings; Via Website – Jasper is an interactive website complete with a visual arts gallery, messages from Jasper, an arts events calendar that is updated several times daily, bite-sized stories on arts events, guest editorials, local music, dance & theatre videos, community surveys, and more; Via Blog – What Jasper Said -- you're reading this now -- is a daily blog featuring a rotating schedule of bloggers from the Jasper staff as well as guest bloggers from throughout the arts community; Via Twitter – Jasper Advises is a method of updating the arts community on arts events, as they happen, with more than a half dozen active tweeters who live, work, and play inside the arts community everyday ~ Jasper Advises keeps the arts community abreast of what not to miss, what is happening when it is happening, and where to be to experience it first hand.
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