No Too Mush Mew Opens at the Suislaw Model Forest in Acra Ny

No Tools used, Mushroom Museum Created for the Show: 

Whale Oil To Whole Foods 

at the Greene County Council for the Arts Gallery and at the Greene County Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Add some Mush as Needed - Now through August 31 2012

Occu-Pod Building workshops Dec 26th-27th-and 28th at the New York Hall of Science

Occu-pods – Learn how to put your waste to work. Construct domes or wigwam frames and insulate them with lost and found clothing to create a comfortable outdoor dwelling.


Occu-Pod Building workshops Dec 26th-27th-and 28th 2-5 pm
http://www.nysci.org/visit/events/event/remake

The Young People's Museum Set to Open... In Need Of Eyes

The Little Big Cat

Little Big Cat Young Person's Museum

This collaboration between Myself, Laura Anderson and the youth of Catskill is set to open October 1st once the thatching is complete and the zines are done.

The Skiles Test China Museum

Some shot's from the Test Fest, where participants were to build structures only out of materials found in the Skiles Test Nature Park in Indianapolis Indiana



Cheryl Odore demonstrating the Museum Guard Post/ tree Hammock

Some details of unearthed china once belonging to Indianapolis Millionaire Skiles Test. Note the name change of the restaurant from White Cafeteria to just " Whites"


The existing corn crib foundation and the mighty Jimson Weed, a plant that I remember ,many folks in high school messing around with and going "loco". What is the yellow flower?

Adventure courtyard at Alfred University visit

I was invited out to Alfred University in Western NY to give a talk and add something to a project Jonas Linberg(creator of the barbed wire teddy bear at b-home)is doing with his liberal arts class...
I thought, with all these skate ramps and rocking/swinging armadillo house structures, maybe a massage table would be helpful.
Here below you see Jenny Hillenbrand-(aka:Vesna) putting the table to good use for fellow mohawkians: Laura Zelda Smith and Scott Kreider








Here's an in progress overhead shot

Further reading:Finite and Infinite Games:a vision of Life and Play and Possibility by James P Carse
and
An Architecture of Play: A Survey of London's Adventure Playgrounds by Nils Norman

"the opposite of consumption is not thrift, It's generosity"- Raj Patel

Catamount People's Museum 2 Events

For immediate release

The Catamount People’s Museum
21 West Bridge st
Catskill NY 12414

www.bobcathouse.blogspot.com


A handmade People's Museum has been constructed in Catskill, NY in the form of a lounging bobcat using discarded tree branches and cut offs from local mills. The interior of this over-sized Lynx Rufus houses a collection of materials and displays celebrating the people, stories and history of the Catskill Mountains. Content for displays are collected from both historical organizations and the surrounding community. The museum has a unique focus of seamlessly blending the stories, visions and personal collections of residents with the voices of historians. The folk legends, urban myths and favorite, almost forgotten tide bits on display make this new public space a place to soak in what this area is really all about.

Do you have a favorite story your grandfather told you? An old photo of the area that you really like? A memory of a building that once stood? A little known gem from the present people should know about? A reason this area is special to you? A vision for the future? Bring It! Tell It!

Material Collection Day: Saturday, August 14th 2010, noon to 3pm
Come get a sneak peak of the town's newest museum. Bring your stories, ideas, books, xeroxed notes of interest, photos and artifacts to add to the museums growing collection

Opening Celebration: Saturday, September 4th 2010, noon to 6 pm
Sponsors and Support: The project is sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts(NYFA) and made possible with a grant from the Harpo Foundation. Special Thanks to the Village of Catskill, Catskill Valley Pools, Dimensions North LTD, Tony Fallon's Hardware Store (Cairo) Skip Kelly's Lumber(Cairo), West Side Villa Pizzeria, Box Art Inc, MBZ framing, WGXC Community Radio

For mail in Submissions:
Catamount People’s Museum
Po box 581
Catskill ny 12414

Contact: mattbua@gmail.com

Catamount Museum in Progress

Finally found a lot near the corner of West Main on West Bridge Street in Catskill NY 12414.

Step 1 : build a sturdy post N beam structure and see how many "High Plains Drifter"
comments you can get

See more about the project here.

Well, Well, Welles House

This homage to Orson Welles, HG Wells, and George Orwell now resides at Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota












Using the seats: paul, robin, mary jane, (bottom) peter and melissa

Tar-House

A structure to celebrate "all things tar"
commission by the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC
The Tar House site

Arctic Talk in Beacon NY Saturday December 12th

Stitch Britch Fork House Museum

A new museum is now open in Riverhead Long Island down the street from the Flanders Giant Duck
Ready for the residence of the 2 forks to fill with their forked goodness.
Note Andrea Cote, the curator of the Found Show's
Equalateral Triangle Rock Collection.







This project was realized for Art Sites in Riverhead Long Island, Where the north and South Fork Meets

Henry Hudson Mutiny Memorial Drive-Thru Kiosk

2009 Byrdcliffe Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
June 13 – October 12, 2009

16 Hudson Valley architects have designed and constructed “memorials” to Henry Hudson who never received a proper burial because his body was lost at sea after his crew mutinied. The outdoor installations are constructed at the historic Byrdcliffe Arts Colony on Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock.

http://www.woodstockguild.org/ahoy/

BLDG BLOG - crib notes

Geoff Manaugh's thoughts on Cribs to Cribbage

Infantospatialism, or: adventures in crib design

CRIBS by Matt Bua is a "Kidpspace exhibition" at this sprawling, industrial-warehouse-turned-modern-art-museum in northwestern Massachusetts.
While CRIBS itself features "an overloaded crib complete with hanging mobiles, recorded 'lullabies,' and the bars that keep the infant safe," the exhibition's second part, ...To CRIBBAGE, is a kind of spatial escape act: the crib has come alive and is climbing out a nearby window: "To escape the chaos of the cluttered future that encroaches on it, the crib must breech the gallery walls, pouring itself down on the museum's entrance below."
Child-sized visitors can, in turn, crawl inside it: "This piece of crib can be entered outside the museum to experience the collaborative 'building game' Bua calls Architectural Cribbage, a game in which he encourages others to start constructing their own small-scale visionary spaces."
The dinosaur spine-like spaces created by this apparently sentient crib-structure – it's Lebbeus Woods meets Lincoln Logs by way of vertebrate biology – would seem rather nightmarish from a child's perspective, I'd imagine, but there's also a spatial honesty to that. After all, one of the earliest architectural spaces that a modern human being experiences is a small, enclosed space, locked behind bars – so cribs aren't necessarily reassuringly womb-like environments.
In fact, I don't mean to show up 100 years late to the child-rearing game here, but surely there has been some architectural writing about the formative psychological influence that such cribs might have?
At the very least, this sounds like an amazing article for Volume magazine: Jeffrey Inaba and Benedict Clouette visit the world's largest crib designers and manufacturers – in Holland, the States, Canada, Japan – and, amidst on-the-spot New Yorker-style reportage direct from the factory floors (the milling machines, the workers, the design team and their tables full of Macs), they show multiple photographs of different crib spaces. Dimension, color, material choice, layout. It's the crib as primordial space research.
Pair this, then, with a series of short interviews with development psychologists – and even neurophysicians who have taken research into spatial perception and the infant brain into uncharted realms – and you're talking National Magazine Award, baby! Damn. I'd read that.
Matt Bua's CRIBS is on display at MASS MoCA till September 7, 2009.

Cribs to cribbage (outdoor crib extension)

http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=463

interior and paint job and Chandelier:Jesse Bercowetz