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Main Street Prototyping Festival
The Main Street Prototyping Festival, a free event, will feature 20 temporary prototypes (created by artists, architects, designers, students, makers, urban planners and others) that activate public space and engage the community toward enhancing connectivity and vibrancy in downtown Mesa. Prototypes include concepts for gathering places, virtual reality experiences, structures that offer space for interaction, performances, places to play and share in art making, and ways for passersby to offer feedback about their community. #mesaprototyping
View a map of the festival and placement of prototypes, here.
Through the festival, the City of Mesa, Mesa Arts Center, Neighborhood Development Corp. (NEDCO), Local Initiatives Support Corporation Phoenix (LISC) and Downtown Mesa Association (DMA) are collaborating to engage creative minds and the community in testing ideas that respond to dreams, needs and desires of citizens and visitors.
The Festival is supported by the City of Mesa, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and a generous Our Town grant for $75,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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In addition to the 20 prototypes, artists Erin V. Sotak and Sophia McGovern will work with community partners, Grant Woods Boys & Girls Club and Mesa’s CARE Partnership, to engage residents in using art and art-making to explore and express their neighborhood and community goals. The artists will employ art making as a tool for building relationships with and among neighbors. They will lead group processes to explore participants’ challenges, needs, hopes and dreams for themselves and their neighborhood, such as issues or barriers to community well-being, enhancements they’d like to make to their environment or pedestrian environment, or ways to enhance feelings of belonging to community.
Click the arrows on each side to scroll through the festival prototypes.
Pause and Play
A collaborative approach that reflects on children + culture + play and the role of the city.
Car Tune Playground
A percussion playground inviting the community to interact through the language of music.
Interactive Canvas Project
An opportunity for the public to discover their artistic spirit through an interactive canvas.
Noodle
A wonderful array of experiences in vivid color and spongy texture, physical engagement, and childhood memories.
Think STEM Machine
An interactive, animated machine, where one action triggers another encouraging audience engagement.
Mesa Speaks Stage
Mesa Speaks Stage is an open platform for creativity, live visual art, music and performances in downtown.
Wayward Beasties Art Car
A wayward turtle and mouse pair, always wandering here or there; hop on top when they stop and enjoy the ride!
Mesa Heart Hopes and Dreams
A heart-shaped steel skeleton, brought to “life” with handwritten hopes and dreams on repurposed fabric.
Los Abuelos
A project honoring Grandparents by sharing memories of them as community cultural expression.
AZDragoneers
Community workshops and outreach with the goal of transformation through representationalism.
The Mega Mesa
A cooperative installation inviting festival goers of all ages to make giant spiral art.
Tapas: Breath and the Beat
Ancestral practices in a contemporary environment to reveal what connects all of humanity.
Living Topography: Creating Vertical Shade in Downtown Mesa
An interactive installation that portrays Mesa as a place of community, art and diversity.
ideaPortals
An innovative, local-first problem solving method that encourage realtime community discussions.
From a Different Lens
Enhancing urban design and community outreach practices by providing participants with a new point of view.
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