Festival Highlights
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Mirazozo by Architects of Air City Plaza, 400 Block of Fayetteville Street Thursday & Friday, May 13-14: 1:00pm - 7:00pm Saturday & Sunday, May 15-16: 11:00am - 7:00pm
Experience the world premiere of Mirazozo -- the latest creation by England's acclaimed Architects of Air.
Admission: $5 per person (Children 3 and under admitted free.) Tickets will be available at the luminarium entrance on City Plaza during opening hours only.
Please note: - The last admission time is 6:40 each day, 20 minutes prior to closing. - Mirazozo is accessible to wheelchair users and people with mobility difficulties. - Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. - Shoes must be left at the luminarium entrance, at the owner's risk.
Mirazozo is a large scale, inflatable sculpture constructed of translucent vinyl and made up of labyrinthine tunnels and inspiring spacious domes. A sensual world of liquid light and color, it is a multi-sensory space that welcomes, inspires and affects everyone who enters. Mirazozo will make the most extensive use of the "illuminated seam." These neon-like seams induce the visitor's gaze to shift between different organisations of the same view. This is the same effect that one encounters in the geometric surface design of Islamic art and architecture. Mirazozo will also feature several dodecadomes (domes based on adaptations of the dodecahedron) and a large central dome -- the largest open space structure that Architects of Air has ever built.
Under the direction of Alan Parkinson, Architects of Air is based in Nottingham, England. Over the past two decades, Parkinson has designed and constructed 15 luminaria which have toured the globe, being experienced by audiences at over 500 exhibitions in 37 countries. He first started experimenting with pneumatic sculptures in the 1980s and has since developed his own language of form in this plastic medium. In 1992 he established the company Architects of Air to build and tour his luminarium designs.
Parkinson describes his intention as an 'Architect of Air' in the following terms:
"What motivates me to design is the fact that I continue to be struck by the beauty of light and colour found in the luminaria. These structures nurture an awareness of a pure phenomenon that gently cuts through everyday conditioned perceptions and awakens a sense of wonder in people."
The pneumatic form has a simple purity that echoes that of the light it contains. It has been Parkinson's work to explore what is possible within the laws of pneumatics to develop an architectural aesthetic capable of doing justice to the beauty of the light in the luminarium.
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Artsplosure Student Art Exhibition Sponsored by Lunsford & Strickland, PA Media Sponsor: Carolina Parent Zanzibar Room, Marbles Kids Museum Saturday, 11:00am - 5:00pm Sunday, 12:00pm - 5:00pm
The Artsplosure Student Art Exhibition is a juried visual art competition, allowing students enrolled in Wake County Middle Schools and High Schools to show off their artistic talent while competing for a total of $500 in cash prizes. |
Kids Art @ Marbles Kids Museum Sponsored by Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee PA Architecture Main Courtyard, Marbles Kids Museum Saturday, 11:00am - 5:00pm Sunday, 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Kids of all ages are invited to express themselves by designing their own flags.
Please note: The Student Art Exhibition and activities in the Main Courtyard are free and open to the public. Regular admission applies to the Museum and IMAX Theatre. |
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Sandy Feat Sponsored by First Citizens Bank Media Sponsor: ParkGeek.com
Watch Ed Moore and his team turn tons of sand into a work of art. He has taught sand sculpture classes at the NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores; won numerous sand sculpture contests at Virginia Beach, Atlantic Beach, Wrightsville Beach and Atlanta; participated in the World Championships in British Columbia; and sculpted with master sand sculptors from Florida to California. Ed has been a sculptor most of his life. Working in clay, wood and metal, he developed a love and talent for three-dimensional art. Those interests expanded through his youth and turned into a career in architecture. He is now an owner of Moore + Burton Architects, PA in Raleigh, NC. |
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Chessworks Sponsored by Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP Media Sponsor: The Raleigh Digest
Challenge others to a game of life-size chess! Enjoy playing chess in a way that has become synonymous with Artsplosure. For most of the past decade, Artsplosure audiences have enjoyed this oversized version of a classic board game, a creation by Lyle Estill from Moncure, NC. |
