For a third year, as part of the Creative Grounds initiative, Borderless Studio invited ¡Anímate! Studio (a.k.a. Andrés and me) to participate in the annual Community Day at the former Overton Elementary School, alongside local students, residents, artists, architects, community organizations, and more.
In alignment with the event’s larger themes, we invited participants in our drop-in sign re-painting activity to specifically consider climate and cultural resilience as they created custom signs with a message of their choice. As in past iterations, this activity involved reusing corrugated plastic yard signs, each originally produced in support of a political candidate. This time, participants could either take their new sign home or leave it to be added to a community structure onsite, which had been created in collaboration with local high school students.
Image description: Photographs of an outdoor workshop, where children and adults paint their own messages and designs onto corrugated plastic yard signs (each a former political sign, the original text of which has been color-blocked over). In the background of one image, event attendees gather and eat. Another image shows a sandwich board, listing event partners, situated in front of the school.