Strapped

This week in Chicago, if you know what's good for you, you'll get to experience a solid performance collective and venue known as The Inconvinece. This week they launch The Strapped Festival, several days of art and theater performance plays that will "examine the current economic recession-some plays are funny, others freakish; some quick witted and some musical"

It's a fun place to be, for real. Plus my buddy Meredith Kachel is pulling in the arts, she's quite rowdy, so it's gonna be good.

Put your arrow here and click the button to learn more about The Inconvinece and the Strapped Festival.

And oh yea you can expect to see a few MoneyBags laying around the place. PickEmUp, PickEmUp, PickEmUp!

A Sense of Place

MoneyBags in the Gallery? Fo Show!

A Sense of Place opening reception on

April 23rd

6-9pm

The Monarch Gallery located 3829 Main Street

Kansas City, Mo 64111

CURATED BY KATHERINE O’HARA AND RYAN TIMOTHY LAFERNEY

A Sense of Place wishes to further establish a dialogue within the arts regarding the subjects of functionality, viewer interaction, and the art of generosity, and how these elements can work together to create a holistic community.

A Sense of Place will feature the work of: Justin Rulo Sabe, Judah Wenger, Lora Campbell, Andrew Lyles, Elysia Contreras, Christopher John Schrat, Christina Lenert, Wen-Dan Lin, Leila Hybl, Kristen Montgomery, Lea Griggs, Tess Stilwell, Jaclyn Senne, Christina Dostaler, Stephen Proski & Sean Starowitz, Sarah Skidmore, Ryan Fletcher, Matthew Jorgensen, Charlie Mylie & Abbe Finley, Ramzy Masri & collaborator, MoneyBags (Stan Chisholm & Lisa See Kim), Eric Thomas Wolever, John Hilger, Sara Cramer, & Amanda James.

New Art In The Neighborhood

Lisa and I got the chance to make MoneyBags with a 5 star group of High School students who are apart of the New Art In The Neighborhood program at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. This was a rare chance for us to sit and present the project, plan, create the bags and currency, AND make the drop in a matter of a few hours. EXHILARATING.

Here are a few of the drops we made.

elementary, my dear.

I was fortunate enough to tag along with Sabrina Severns, educator, artist, and baker extraordinaire to pump out another $bags workshop at Marvin Garvey elementary in Chicago. And that Miss Severns, boy is she crafty; slinking around a slim time constraint and even slimmer budget, she concocted a new way to make kid friendly moneybag printing screens: using a hybrid cheese cloth/mesh fabric (porous, but sturdy) and embroidery hoops, we were able to make reusable, easy clean up screens (I would say no mess, but them kids can get down!). The results were, I think, were an all around success. Lessons learned: 5th graders freak out at the idea of a "guest artist", a little cardboard and duct tape go a long way as a squeegee, and elementary school toilets are much shorter than I remembered.

Words For Ekklesia-"Created to Create"

Words For Ekklesia has started the beginning stages of their MoneyBags Movement. The small ministry of Christian creatives has 7 U.S. cities plus the country of Panama planed in their upcoming tour. But while they're still at home in SouthWestern Missouri, I'm told, that the coffee shop, "CoffeeBuzz," has re-opened their doors just for WFE to meet weekly for MoneyBaging up until their departure. Below is a video of their progress thus far. We'll be sure to keep up with these guys and share their efforts with you.

Art On Track-MassiveMoneyBagDrop

Here it is! The first of many big drops. People continued to make bags, there were trades and all sorts of new rules being tossed into the mix, that's how we like it. Filled the train, kept it stocked and we still have more bags. if you're looking to get your hands on one or wanna help out, give me the word and I'll mail it to you. Don't be one of them cool kids who waits for it to blow up before you give it your time.

The show lasted from 11am-8pm circling above the downtown streets of Chicago. The looks on people's faces were pricesless upon discovering that they could not only look through the bags, but keep them if they chose. And seeing a platform full of running bodies dragging moneybags doesn't happen unless we make it happen.

Keep your ears open for the next. and Keep contributing. ThisAintOver

-AteTeenA/C

------------photos by Joan (MojoMom)------

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*Bags, Printed Images, Labor, Motivation, Sanity, Assistance, Inserted Bag Item aka Currency were provided by the people of the world. Special Shout outs to Jay Kurtz & Ashley Daley, Randi, Daryl, Jeremiah Catalano-Reilly, Emily Heymeyer, Keith A. Bucholz, Courtney Trapp & her Mom, The Campers of SCOSAG, Ron, Ben Bergevin-Smith, Lindsay Brenner, Courtney WIlliams, The DePaul University Crew and anyone who called us crazy