From the press release:
Champaign, Ill. — Nancy Judd, the 2014 Hatch Visiting Artist-in-Residence, will be at Champaign’s Garden Hills Elementary School Friday (Feb. 28) from 8:50 a.m.-3 p.m. to lead an all-school assembly and hands-on repurposing project with third- through fifth-graders. Students will make an installation consisting of flags created from reused billboard fabric and will attach their own personal eco pledges to the flags.
The visiting artist program is part of Hatch, a two-week-long creative-reuse art festival produced by The I.D.E.A Store, Champaign-Urbana’s premier eco-edu-art creative-reuse marketplace and earned-income enterprise of the Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation. The festival also includes a juried art exhibition and juried art fair, “trashion” show, workshops, lectures and other activities.
Judd is an internationally recognized public artist, environmental educator and founder of Recycle Runway based in Santa Fe, N.M. She creates awareness of environmental issues through her inventive “trashion” designs, which have been exhibited in high-traffic venues throughout the world — from museums to airports, including the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Several major corporations, such as Coca Cola and Target, have commissioned Judd to create eco-fashions as well. Her “Obamanos Coat,” created from Obama campaign “door-hangers,” is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Hatch officially kicks off at 6 p.m. Friday (Feb. 28) with the art exhibition at Indi Go Artist Co-op in downtown Champaign. That evening, Judd will make an appearance at the gallery, which will feature two of her trash-fashion designs through March 15. She also will teach workshops for children and adults at The I.D.E.A. Store on Saturday (March 1); later that day, she will give a TED-style talk, free and open to the public, at 4:30 p.m. at the Champaign Public Library.
Other photo opportunities during the festival include the Hatch Trashion Show,March 7 (Thursday) at 6 p.m. at Urbana’s Lincoln Square Mall, and the Hatch Art Fair March 15 (Saturday) from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Savoy Recreation Center.
A complete festival schedule is online at here. Previous news releases about Hatch can be found here.
