Flow
- Barbara & Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships and Shelley Spector
- The Netter Center
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Project Support Grant
Andrew Hamilton School’s garden, the anticipated site of Flow.
The Netter Center for Community Partnerships and Shelley Spector are collaborating on a community-engagement public art project that works with the Andrew Hamilton School’s art, science and garden programs. Spector is an interdisciplinary artist who works with underutilized materials to produce project-specific bodies of work. The Andrew Hamilton School, located two miles West of Penn’s campus, is a K-8 school and one of the Netter Center’s university assisted community schools. This grant provides support for a year-long first phase of a two-phase project. It will include hands-on workshops for Hamilton students with themes such as sustainable building, hydrology, waste management, decomposition, siphons and similar devices, forces of nature such as gravity, and kinetics. This will result in a collaborative final design based on collective input and experimentation. This phase of research and collaboration with the teachers and students of the Hamilton school will be documented to help raise money to build and install a permanent piece for the garden.