Sign Your Art is back for 2017!
This first of its kind street art project engages local artists and members of the public to create a unique art installation across the entire city, bringing both local and national attention to the new arts marketing campaign: Art Makes Columbus/Columbus Makes Art and the Columbus Arts Festival.
The project is the brainchild of Columbus artist Stephanie Rond. In 2015 Rond and fellow project director, artist Catherine Bell Smith, helped more than 700 people make tiles at the Columbus Arts Festival. To provide inspiration, 64 tiles were created by professional artists in visual arts, music, dance, film and performance in advance of the festival.
After the Festival approximately 300 community tiles were curated and installed in groups of five, each set containing an inspiration tile and four community tiles, on street signs across the city for four weeks. The entire installation spelled out the word “ART” when pinned on a Google Map of Columbus.
This year we have invited a new group of inspirational artists to create tiles and we will be hosting a painting tent at the Columbus Arts Festival June 9-11 next to the Cultural Arts Center. Come on down and paint your tile for consideration in the 2017 installation which will go up in the same locations, again spelling “ART” across Columbus, in mid- to late July this year.
Visit the Google Cultural Institute to see the 2015 pieces installed.
Aaron Thomas
Adam Hernandez
Aina Turiaga
Amandda Tirey
Ashley D. Pierce
Barbara Fant
Benjamin Lamb
Bryan Christopher Moss
Cameron Granger
Catherine Bell Smith
Celia C. Peters
Chris Leyva
Christopher Burk
Cynthia Amoah
Dane Khy
David Michael Butler
Debra James Tucker
Donte Woods-Spikes
Gabriel Guyer
Gabrielle Burton
Gaye Reissland
Greg Easterling
Hakim Callwood
Helen Yee
Jacci Delaney
Jackie Calderone
Janet George
Jeff Regensburger
Jen Kiko
Jenn Shepard
Jennifer Bender
John Grosvenor
Kate Morgan
Keo Khim
Laine Bachman
Larry Doyle
Laura Alexander
Leah Wong
Lucie Shearer
Maggie Smith
Mark and Sara Castro
Mark Lomax ll
Marshall Shorts
Meghan Ralston
Melissa Starker
Michael McEwan
Michol Childress
Mike Fields
Mindy Staley
Mona Gazala
Nancy Kangas
Patrick Wayner
Queen Brooks
Ric Petry
Roger Kent Grosswiler
Sam Buganski
Sarah Hout
Scott Woods
Sherleelah Jones
Stephanie Rond
Sue Cavanaugh
Susan Van Pelt Petry
Tera Stockdale
Voszi Douglas