Further development: community art workshop
If These Walls Could Talk: Activating Bathrooms as Art Spaces with Mayuko Fujino and Bryan Zimmerman
The bathroom project developed into a workshop at Art Omi (Ghent, NY) created in partnership with Tobacco Free Action of Columbia and Greene Counties in 2022.
If These Walls Could Talk: Activating Bathrooms as Art Spaces
with Mayuko Fujino and Bryan Zimmerman
How can public art begin to normalize conversations around basic human emotions such as anxiety, anger, loneliness, and insecurity? How can art provide a safe space for others in your community to think and learn about mental health issues? In this week-long workshop, students created a collaborative, site-specific artwork in the Art Omi: Education Pavilions bathrooms that incorporates stencil techniques and other methods of producing large-scale public art. The workshop engaged in notions of health equity, predatory marketing to youth, addiction, mental health, science, anatomy, youth advocacy, and other related topics.
