Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is thrilled to debut artwork by the 2024 Tough Artists in Residence, created in Summer 2024.
All artwork is located in MuseumLab.
La Vispera
The Canopy
Explore this larger-than-life interactive children’s book, featuring a stained glass-like aesthetic throughout the space.
La Vispera, an art collective by Colombian immigrant artists Kelly Jiménez and Alejandro Franco, specializes in transforming discarded materials, predominantly single-use plastic, into highly crafted works of art that mimic stained glass windows. Alejandro excels in multidisciplinary art, crafting found object assemblages and paintings, while Kelly, an art director, specializes in spatial interventions for visual concepts in set design and editorials. Now based in Pittsburgh for the past two years, La Vispera is eager to deepen connections and expand their artistic horizons.
Learn more about La Vispera:
la-vispera.com
Bryce Li
Imagine Anything
Step up to a character generator where visitors can choose a character, its occupation and location. Through body-tracking software, the visitor “becomes” the character and can move around as the character in the space.
Bryce Li makes delightful interactive experiences from an intersection of art, design, and computing. He’s previously created an interactive exhibit for children at teamLab, and he’s a 2024 graduate of the Carnegie-Mellon University School of Design.
Learn more about Bryce Li:
designbybryce.com
Sydney Parcell
Optical Wonder
This circus tent-like structure that invites visitors to encounter a large palm tree. Upon interacting with moveable elements of the tree’s trunk, visitors can manipulate the palm leaves to create various patterns of shadows and light projected inside the space.
Sydney Parcell is an emerging artist living in the Bay Area, and has been a student of the arts since studying at a design high school in Miami. After a short stint in the tech industry and track-bike racing, her passions led her back to art after learning about Burning Man, where she learned welding, neon, improv theater, digital fabrication, and un-learning societial “shoulds” and “should-nots”. Sydney began working at the Exploratorium as a New Media Exhibit Developer at the start of the pandemic. She believes that art should be played with and remind people that life doesn’t have to be taken so seriously.
Learn more about Sydney
https://www.sydneyparcell.com
past tough art
tough art residency
The Tough Art summer residency is offered every year.