Northern Spark 2015

Northern Spark is art all night, community all year.

When the sun sets at 9:00 p.m. and the church bells ring (listen!), the city awakes to a new sense of possibility. For eight hours and twenty-six minutes, the city surprises you: friendly crowds, ambitious art projects, an unexpected path through the urban landscape, the magic of sunrise after a night of amazing experiences.

MCAD is pleased to be participating in the event for the fifth consecutive year!

Projects include:

Topographies

Primary artists: Various
Hours of project: All night
Project location: Main Gallery
Joint reception: June 13, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Make a really big book on a Really Big Table and explore art from the handmade to the digitally wrought. Think big expansive bobbing quiet.

The Dark Room

Primary artist: Revolver
Hours of project: All night
Project location: Main Gallery

The Dark Room investigates myth making, its evolution, and the illumination of text by its discoverer, the reader.

Raster/Vector/Vexel

Primary artists: Various
Hours of project: All night
Project location: Concourse Gallery
Joint reception: June 13, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Raster/Vector/Vexel showcases the work of Continuing Education students and instructors in the areas of digital photography, digital video, animation, motion graphics, and other digital media.

Disco Roller Printing Party

Primary artist: Diana Eicher
Project location: College Center, main building

Engage, embrace, and summon your inner child! Come roller-skate to the sounds of the 1970s while you experiment with printmaking techniques.

An Overture in Seven Parts

Primary artist: David Andree
Project location: Black and Grey studios, third floor, main building

An Overture in Seven Parts is a continuous sound composition and multi-channel installation created in real time by a collective of seven artists.

Can You Hear Me Now? You’ll Never Hear Me Again

Primary artist: Hunter Jonakin
Project location: Outdoor east wall projection

Playable video game features fifty square blocks of urban wandering.

Logjam

Primary artist: Dave Beck
Project location: Outdoor north wall projection

Logjam asks the viewer to contemplate the cyclical process of death and rebirth, while also discovering the calming effect of chaos.

Midnight Shadows

Primary artists: Shannon Estlund, Mark Estlund, Scott Hochhalter, and Nathan Lewis
Project locations: Morrison building, Skywalk, and Target Park

Stars hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires; The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.

Sound/FUN/Fury

Primary artists: Tom Schroeder and MCAD faculty, students, and staff
Project locations: Film and animation: third floor and Black Box Gallery, main building; Poppies and Croquet: east lawn; Arcade Backpack: mobile

Unleashing a child’s vision of the world through experimental films, a balloon poppy field, a Royal Croquet Game, and an Arcade Backpack.

Something to Hold Onto, Until the Wind Carries Us Away

Primary artist: Nick Rivers
Project location: East Lawn

Visitors tie on prayer ties and flags to memorial archway.
Part of Sound/FUN/Fury.