Cook Arts Center Students Participate in SiTE:LAB

This weekend Blandford Nature Center is hosting its second year of SiTE:LAB, a roving project that creates temporary site-specific art projects aimed at facilitating dynamic collaborations between the art, education, business and cultural communities of Grand Rapids. This SiTE:LAB is a very special one though, because for the first time some of it's featured artists are as young as six years old.

Those six year olds are part of a group of 15 students from the Cook Arts Center who, over the past ten weeks, worked on creating and installing a site-specific installation for this weekend's SiTE:LAB event at Blandford. For more information on the project, check out the article in The Rapidian http://therapidian.org/students-collaborate-environmentally-conscious-art-project-sitelab-blandford or head over to Blandford Nature Center this weekend to see it for yourself tonight from 5-11pm or tomorrow, June 16th, from 12-5pm.

Cook Arts Center staff and students stop working for a moment to get their picture taken. From left to right: Artist T'Alyne, Program Director Steffanie Rosalez, Students Nancy A., Donny H., Avelycia O., Intern Ashley Currey, and Student (in front) Shirley H.