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Third Place Technologies

Summary

of Activities

for 2023

AGENDA

Background

Space: Sky Artworks (p. 3)

Event: Electric Sky (p. 8)

Space: Passable (p. 15)

Event: Seattle: City of the Future: Juried art & tech exhibition (p. 22)

Priorities for 2024 (p. 27)

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Background

A 501(c)3 founded in 2014

Mission: Foster interdisciplinary collaboration, community, and life-long learning through spaces, events, and new technologies. Facilitate the creative community at the intersection of art, technology, and civic engagement to create, collaborate, learn, and share their work.�

Why “Third Place”

In community building, the third place is a public space separate from the home (first place) or the workplace (second place). In his influential book The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg (1989, 1991) argues that third places are important for civil society, democracy, civic engagement, and establishing feelings of a sense of place.

Links:

A tale of two cities in King County!

Skykomish – rural mountain community

Space: Sky Artworks, a collaborative community arts space (26 members) with 5 public art shows over ten months (reaching approx 1500 people)

Event: Electric Sky, art and tech creactive retreat (25 creatives + their family & friends), workshops, and public art show (over 100 attendees)

Seattle – art and tech in the heart of Capitol Hill

Space: Passable, a makerspace with 31 members (partnering with Totally Legit), monthly art shows, reaching approx 2000 people

Event: Seattle: City of the Future, a one month immersive art experience in the heart of capitol hill with 28 installations, 43 artists and ~1800 attendees�

Board of Directors

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SPACE: SKY ARTWORKS

A community space designed to nurture, serve, and grow the creative community in Skykomish and beyond.

Workshops and peer mentorship for life-long learning

Gallery & gift shop, highlighting local art and/or

local environment

Collaboration space with meeting resources and specialized art & tech equipment

https://SkyArtworks.org

Community events, to develop broader community engagement

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Sky Artworks 2023 Activities

Space improvements

Installed micro-kitchen, shelter for laser cutter & CNC router

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Five art shows

Wild Sky, Interconnected Ecosystems (murals), Alpine Sky 2.0, Light of the Rails, Art of Craft

Workshops

Puzzle It, Murals, Expressive abstract, Watercolor, lantern making, light boxes, christmas ornaments, block printing

Supported numerous community events

Meetups: Railroad society, PNW Mycology, Sky valley mixer, Tunnel Days committee, Washout committee, Skykomish Resilient Energy Committee

Town sponsored events: Tai Chi, Tunnel Days, the Holiday Market, SkyCrafter meetups, Christmas Tree Lighting, civic meetups including Sarah Perry Town Hall, Comprehensive Planning Workshop, Holiday party

Lamps created in a lamp-making workshop for the Luminous Garden show, hosted by artist Beanne Hull

Workshops often tied to theme of shows to inspire collaboration.

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Art show themes feature local environment and/or local artists

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Lamp-making workshop for “Art of Craft”

shows how to use laser cutter

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Mixed media over laser cut etchings

by Genevieve Tremblay

Artist, community catalyst, passable member, Sky Artworks member, and board member

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EVENT: ELECTRIC SKY

An art and tech weekend retreat

with the goal of fostering the community of innovation at the intersection of art and technology in the Pacific Northwest.

https://ElectricSkyArtCamp.com

2023 Theme: Circuit Tree, exploring connections in nature

Posterby Jeff Larson

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workshops and collaboration

in pop-up maker lab

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All ages workshops tied to the theme – e.g. we taught microcontrollers and LEDs for making LED tree ornaments

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art walk in nature, in pop-up art show

photo by Elizabeth Ostasiewski

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automated tranquility by Joel Walters and Suzanne Dazo

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Circuit Tree

by CeCe Kotz

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These light boxes in the pop-up art show were made the same day during a workshop on zoom photography, showing circuits in nature.

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SPACE: PASSABLE

A collaboration space with specialized equipment, workshops, and an exhibition area in Capitol Hill – an “arts-oriented makerspace”.

The collaboration space is run in partnership with Totally Legit (the art group), with the art shows administered by Third Place Technologies.

See https://TotallyLegitLLC.com/passable/

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Group art shows

inspire learning, and collaboration around art and tech

poster by Jeff Larson

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Mad scientist art show, a group collaboration

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Story of Maps art show

examined art, design,

and science

in maps

poster by Jeff Larson

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Art Kitz show – exploring how to make art kits for holiday gifts

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Art Kitz show – learn how to make a spaceship with animated LEDs using laser cutter

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EVENT:

SEATTLE:

CITY OF THE FUTURE

An immersive art experience, June 2023, maze of art over three floors.

In collaboration with Tamarind Tree & PublicDisplay.Art

See https://SeattleCityoftheFuture.com

Full 3D Model of the event by photographer Levi Clark is here:

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=Zwu9KRan6zA

Poster by Jeff Larson

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Salt of the Earth

by Casey Curran

With Fractured Window

by Joseph Gray in the background

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Command and Control: Animated map shows Seattle neighborhoods and community hubs on a laser cut form – using art to visualize the impact of community places on happiness.

A Totally Legit project

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Augmented Reality Systems Map of Seattle by Jeff Brice

at Seattle: City of the Future

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An aspirational future – Seattle is occupied by trees

by Jean Bradbury

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