I learned a lot from watching children at NYC hands-on museums and enjoyed designing and leading “maker” workshops with teens and families. That work informed the challenging “Lightforms’98” exhibition for ASCI, and my personal commission projects below.
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(1998)
It was an international competition and exhibition of three, large-scale, kinetic lightworks that were interactive with 30,000 museum visitors; commissioned by the New York Hall of Science for its Great Hall.
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(1996)
This was an interactive sculpture for children to “dress-up” and change via magnetized vinyl patterned and textural surfaces, small snap-on spinners and 3D shapes, plus a large transparent bug eye (a home skylight dome) with changeable colored lenses; commissioned for the Staten Island Children’s Museum.
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(1992)
It was an interactive, wall-mounted “composing-grid” mechanism in the format of my early patchwork quilts. It was designed to give the public “agency” to create their own compositions of my silk-screened Lexan tiles; commissioned for the Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT.
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(1988)
Was an interactive room installation simulating riding the Staten Island Ferry. It had interactive components (many created in public workshops); commissioned for the Staten Island Children’s Museum.