Greensboro

Storytelling and Narrative in Public Space

Elmstreet                                                                                                                                            Greensboro, North Carolina / October 30th 2013

This workshop utilized the fundamental elements of narrative and storytelling in the design of individual public art interventions.

The steps:

• Identify a central location with clear boundaries.
• Participants explore the location and select an individual site. The site inspires a story. The story can be a true story, fiction, combination of truth and fiction, poetic, and other forms.
• Each participant tells a story in their selected site as the group listens.
• Participants are asked to design an intervention at their space inspired by their story and location in thirty minutes.
• Participants share their designs and the group listens and makes suggestions.
• Participants break and prepare for their invention at the site.
• Interventions are executed for 90 minutes or longer.

Artists:

Dickie Cox

Betsy Renfrew

Jessica Moore