Sound the Mound Receives an Ideas that Matter award

John Roach and Andrew Shea are happy to announce that they were the recipients of an “Ideas that Matter” award from Sappi to support their project Sound the Mound. The project is located at Freshkills Park in Staten Island(once the largest landfill on the planet) and involves a site specific sound installation in collaboration with Arable Labs, as well as a curriculum that focuses on our relationship to waste. The Sappi award will enable us to create educational tool kits that can be used at the park and at schools across the country.

You can read about the award here:
https://www.sappi.com/2018-winners

You can also find our project at New School Collaboratory:
https://thenewschoolcollaboratory.org/2018/03/14/sound-the-mound

The Children’s Books and Influence of Bruno Munari

Sunday, September 23, 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion at Artbook @ PS1
https://centerforbookarts.org/event/bruno-munari-panel/

The Children’s Books and Influence of Bruno Munari is moderated by Robbin Ami Silverberg and includes John Roach, Art Instructor at Parsons and Curator of The Internal Machine, a recent exhibition inspired by the work of Bruno Munari, and artist Louise-Marie Cumont whose work is included in Look, Look, Look… A Playful Book.  The panel will discuss several key works by Munari and lead a discussion about these books’ influence on their work, art, and society.

More about John Roach here.