Art Workshops Oct. 29 Part Of UNBOUND Exhibition Nov. 4-5 At Color Burst Park In HoCo

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — The UNBOUND Exhibition featuring four artists showcasing new technology includes projection mapping, 3D models, virtual reality environments, holographic projects and soundscape immersions. The AIR UNBOUND 2022 exhibit will be Nov. 4-5 at Color Burst Park.

Hosted by the Howard Hughes Corporation, in partnership with the Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission, this year’s AIR UNBOUND program kicks off with the UNBOUND Interactive Community Event Oct. 29 from 1 to 5 p.m. featuring four sets of workshops, demonstrations and performances set around the themes of heritage, community and expression. The event takes place at Color Burst Park, 6100 Merriweather Drive, Columbia.

• Graffiti Design Workshop
• Acclaimed local artist “DEZ” will lead a fashion and personal expression workshop collaborating with attendees to have a personal item customized live. Participants also have the opportunity to design and create their own customized hats or shirts on a first come first serve basis.

• Unbound Mural Workshop
• Participants are invited to join Columbia-local artist Justin Victoria in a collaborative graffiti and mural painting workshop featuring reused material from last year’s AIR exhibition to create a community work of art with coroplast panels laid out along Color Burst Park. The completed work will be displayed in the UNBOUND exhibition space and activated by colorful projection mapping during the Nov. 4-5 events.

• Rhythm & Resonance Dance Workshop
• Themes of rhythm, West African heritage and contemporary hip hop beats relevant to multimedia figurative artist Sonia’s upcoming installation will be explored in rhythm and movement workshops led by percussionists and dancers. The day’s programming will culminate in a dance party featuring a DJ and an overlay of drums in Color Burst Park.

• Hempcrete Sustainability Workshop
• Guests will engage in a hempcrete tile-making workshop led by DMW local artist Kyla. Participants will be invited to collect a wooden mold and write their individual sustainability pledge on it. Subsequently, their portraits, taken with their personalized molds, will be transformed into completed hempcare tiles. These tiles will subsequently be featured as a pledge wall at the final exhibition, serving as a dynamic projection surface.

Participating artists are:

David “DEZ” Zambrano
David “DEZ” Zambrano is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist who has garnered wide acclaim with his custom artwork on footwear made for the stars including Cam Newton, Steph Curry and Tom Brady. DEZ is creating a 3D painting in VR space that would enable and advance the three-dimensionality and dynamism inherent to graffiti. His 3D digital graffiti paintings will become sculptural elements to be experienced from every angle, realizing previously unattainable goals within the graffiti art form.

Sonia Jones
Sonia Jones is a multimedia figurative artist, painter and muralist who grew up in the Oakland Bay Area. Her forthcoming installation will be an immersive audio-visual experience inspired by the connections between West African and African American cultures. West African elements like Talking Drums and Dogon funeral masks will meet beats from the Bay Area rap/hip-hop Hyphy Movement and Oakland Turf Dancers. Her goal is to send a message to her community about the importance of uncovering the Black/African point of view both physically and spiritually.

Justin Victoria
Justin Victoria is a visual artist who works in acrylic paint on canvas, digital painting, photography, graphic design and music production. He is embracing new mediums in the development of an installation titled Beyond the Veil, which will implement visual programming and projection mapping to blend sound, sculpture, light and abstract motion graphics. The exhibition space will be transformed into an ethereal, transcendent landscape. It is intended to provide a release from the stress of this moment, evoking a sense of tranquility and calmness.

Kyla L Hill
Kyla L Hill is a DMW local artist with a passion for sustainability and a background in technical drawing. Kyla’s new work seeks to visualize a sustainable future through the conscious use of materials. She has spent months mixing, molding, and setting hempcrete tiles by hand. These organic elements will be merged with digital media, sculpture, animation and projection mapping to reimagine the childhood fable of the Three Little Pigs in the context of the climate challenges of the 21st century.