The Field Trip Project Lecture will be presented tonight by curator Daisuke Takeya and two artists whose work can be found at the Field Trip Project exhibit, including UWSA professor John McMinn. The exhibit, currently at Design at Riverside on the ground floor of Waterloo Architecture, features thirty-five artists from Japan and thirty-five from Canada. Together, they have transformed seventy backpacks donated to schools in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in North Eastern Tohuku, Japan into portable, interactive works of art. The schools were overwhelmed with donations, and the exhibit is a response “designed to engage communities in the affected areas in a new and positive way.”
6:30 pm in the Main Lecture Theatre, Waterloo Architecture; free admission.