Inviting Community Participation at an Experimental Animation Workshop

I hosted a grant-funded observational drawing workshop in collaboration with artist Carmen Ribaudo. Each participant drew twelve frames of animation from views along the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge in North St. Louis to deeply engage with the riverfront landscape. All drawings will contribute to a printed flipbook, which will be published and distributed this summer.

To promote the workshop, I designed a riso flyer using my own photos taken from the bridge and interpolations of drawings by Carmen. Scanned in, the flyer transformed into a dynamic animation we used to advertise the event on Instagram.

Risograph printing by Swan Meadow.

26 workshop participants braved the wind to draw twelve frames of animation while looking through wooden viewfinders clamped to the bridge rails.

Event documentation by Justin Solomon.

Currently, I am in the process of designing and producing a printed flipbook bringing the workshop drawings together with essays and documentation of additional sculptural work by Carmen Ribaudo.