Experimental Art Club's BEE HOUSE
Winter/Spring 2026 to premiere at BOOM BOOM BEES / WAGLFEST
on May 23 in Athens, GA !
We are making a BEE HOUSE - Festoon style!
BEEcome an engineer, an architect, a custom furniture designer with our next prompt- BEE HOUSE- we will be making clay trinkets whilst constructing a hexagonal bee house (similar in scale to a giant doll house)
Together, we will collectively fabricate the BEE HOUSE of our dreams.
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"A SOUVENIR OF THE EXPERIENCE"
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Circus Training
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Ant Earrings!
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You've got Spaghetti on your Shirt
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From the Archives:
Seed Circus Summer!
Inspired by and in collaboration with our friends Appalachian Seed Growers Collective, Experimental Art Club is building a tabletop BIG TOP and taking it on tour! Next stop: September 5-14 at the N.C. Mountain State Fair!
Installation View of Decoy 'n Decor 'n More | "how will we get our ducks in a row?" 2024 | Photo courtesy of LamplightAVL / Peter Speer
"Make Stuff For Fun!"
Hatched in 2021, Experimental Art Club is a multigenerational playgroup that "makes stuff for fun!", a wide circle of friends that play together regularly with a DIY mentality and pools of energy.
From The Archives:
Ant Float Dream Boat
"Ants Together, Ants Forever”
5/3/2025
BMCM+AC {re}Happening 13 | Lake Eden | Black Mountain, NC
Through explorations in innertubes (“inner tutus”) and pool noodles, we built an ANTigravitational miniature/giANT ant float on Lake Eden with wind enhanced visuals. At sunset (8:19), an illuminated ant ballet was performed on the water, accompanied by music, projections, and synchronized movements that guided and invited the participANT-observers on the shore to dream as "ANTS TOGETHER, ANTS FOREVER".
From The Archives:
"how do we mark the flood?"
11/23/2024
Swannanoa, NC
A day of collective healing and community resilience on the historic grounds of Warren Wilson College
From The Archives:
The Oasis of the Juicy Fruits
"feel the weather"
9/21-10/14 2023
Center For Craft | Asheville, NC
In this harmony of tradition, innovation, and creative wonder, at the crossroads of unconventional artistic expression and a yearning for the commons, the Oasis of the Juicy Fruits beckons all to partake in the dance of life.
From The archives:
Bug Mall
"you are here"
12/11-31 2022
LamplightAVL / The Residency at 821
Drawing inspiration from utopian experiments both attempted and imagined, cooperative and adaptive behaviors observed across life forms, holiday light shows, escalators, and the shopping mall itself, Bug Mall explores the ways we relate to our built environment, each other, and ourselves through the lens of contemplative socioentomology. Click below to BUG OUT!
Performance View of Color Theory Guard {Re}HAPPENING 12 | 2024 Photo courtesy of Michael Oppenheim / BMCM+AC
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