The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
Open Menu

2021 Grant Awards

Scrimmage

  • Will Owen
  • Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
  • How to Apply
  • Browse Grant Awards
Bleachers

Will Owen, 'Scrimmage', wood collapsable bleachers.

Will Owen will create a set of collapsible, telescopic bleachers with a set of bellows built underneath. When the bleachers are opened and closed, they will create a sonorous accordion-type sound. Using various types of bellow-based reed instruments as inspiration (Bagpipes, Shruti, Sho, Accordions, among many), Will is interested in creating an interactive set of “prepared” bleachers that allows the audience to perform their seating. Bleachers hold multiple identities within the North American psyche. On the topside, they are an exposed, well-lit vantage for being witness to any sort of prescribed tournament of value whether sport or another assembly. Underneath this seating gives way to a more clandestine and experimental area where light is channeled through jostling feet and book bags.

  • 2021
  • Graduate Fine Arts Department
  • Student Grant
  • Student Creative Production
  • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)

Back to Grant Awards

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation

John McInerney (he/him)
Executive Director
215-573-0874
mcinernj@upenn.edu

Chloe Reison (she/her)
Associate Director
215-573-2159
reison@upenn.edu

Tamara Suber (she/her)
Executive Coordinator of Grants and Community and Equity Strategies
215-898-0608
suber@upenn.edu

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation is located on the Upper Mezzanine of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

3680 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA

Sign Up for Our Newsletter
Follow Us @sachsartsphilly

 Facebook Instagram Twitter

Browse the Website
  • Grants
  • Happenings
  • News
  • Resources
  • Spaces & Places
  • About
Report accessibility issues and get help
Copyright © 2023 The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
  • Grants
  • Happenings
  • News
  • Resources
  • Spaces & Places
  • About
Close Menu.