Students to install art work at Proctor's
01.11.10
Tech Valley High School students will be at Proctor's Theater on Tuesday, starting at 9 a.m. to install a major art project that they have been working on for the past two-plus months.
The juniors, who hail from more than two-dozens Capital Region and mid-Hudson Valley schools, have been working since October on a massive sculpture - the largest piece of which is a 14-foot high diamond shaped object - that will hang in the arcade of the historic Schenectady theater.
Owning to one of the tenets of the school - that students work with experts from the community on project - the budding TVHS artists have worked with electronic artists Jesse Stiles, who helped animate the project, and seamstress Lynn Kopka, who helped the students sew nylon and rip-stop fabric that will serve as a backdrop.
The artwork - which will hang in a three-story section of the theater - depicts a new universe after the existing universe was destroyed.
The artwork will be officially unveiled during a 5 p.m. event on Friday, January 15 and will be on display or about six months, teacher Ed Coolidge said.
