MAD for Creativity Travel Video duration – 4.19 minutes 72 Hours Museum of Arts and Design Travel Video New York, USA Brian McFarland Associate Vice President for Education and Programs There’s lots to see and do here in the museum. There’s permanent galleries, temporary exhibitions, open studios, events; permanent collections has one of my favorite things right here on the second floor – the Jury collection. Museum of Arts and Design – 2nd floor The works of art in these cabinet are created by artists who are doing small scale sculpture out of unexpected materials, sometimes precious, sometimes of little value but the value in these pieces is the creative vision that the artists bring to it. Artists from all over the world are here, being on exhibition for the first time in North America. This particular gold necklace taken from a classical Egyptian pattern is actually made of gold, paper and canvas. Very much like many of the objects that are there in the museum, used in surprising and unexpected ways by these artists. Museum of Arts and Design – 4th floor One of the extraordinary works of art is this portrait of a textile worker by Terese Agnew. Terese Agnew who has created this large scale black and white grey with pointillism points of color through out the work entirely out of unexpected materials. This is 30000 clothing labels all carefully sewn together over the course of two years but Terese is suggesting in her work as many of these artists is reflecting cultural problems and exchanges. The original image to this particular portrait was taken by a black and white photograph of a sweatshop in Bangladesh something of great concern to Terese in all of her works. Museum of Arts and Design – 5th floor I’m standing in front of El Anatsui’s extraordinary tapestry piece which in many ways is a perfect example of what this museum is particularly interested. Materials and the processes, the creative processes and the materials that artists choose make extraordinary things out of ordinary and in this particular case El Anatsui has gathered together thousands and thousands of metal caps and liquor bottle rings in order to link them together through small copper wires creating this lustrous piece. One of the most unique aspects of the museum is the open studio program. Located on the sixth floor, three artist studios working in a whole variety of medium are here every time the museum is open to give you an opportunity to talk to the artists and see the creative and the studio processes in which artists transform ordinary into the extraordinary. Zack Davies Artist in Residence The suit is basically my uniform. I’ve chosen a suit because I’m using a briefcase as well as my form and I thought about taking something out of context like say a suit…using a suit to make art in. it’s not necessary what it was originally designed for nor a briefcase. The briefcase is not designed to create a sculpture form inside it so I’m taking things out of context in order to get to innovative places.