Elsewhere Artist Collaborative

For our final project in drawing class we were asked to recreate the first room of the Elsewhere Artist Collaborative Museum downtown. When we first we given this assignment I honestly did not even know where to start my sketches! All the stuff hanging down from the walls and ceilings and on the floor was very overwhelming, so we decided to divide up the space into individual sections. That helped us out a lot trying to keep everything straight. Below I have included some of my sketches I did at Elsewhere and also a lot of pictures I took to remember our class experiences.

Below is my first sketch of the front window at Elsewhere. I tried to highlight the items in front of the window and also outside the window to give it depth.

When you first walk into Elsewhere you are overwhelmed by the amount of stuff in front of you. So I decided to break the museum down into parts, and this is the view to the left of the front of the store.

I also took this photo at the front of the museum with Shannon in it to give people the sense of what it feels like to be surrounded by that much stuff!

This one took a long time to draw because of all the little details. It is the tree house looking thing in the very back part of the museum. Shannon and I got the opportunity to draw one more time before class ended, when we came back on the 8 of May.

The space that I chose to draw as a part of the class project was in the press office right as you walk in to the museum. It included a tv, radios, snoopy dogs, a typewriter, loose wires, and a few books one day and the next day it transformed into a tv with huge letters, no typewriter, no radios and lots of books. That is what I found very interesting about this museum, because the purpose of it is to show the shifting of the collections as people change them.

I enjoyed going to the museum because it was a very different experience. I was able to look at the mounds of stuff from a new perspective, where it was not only sorted into collections but how it transformed day to day.