Collaboration with 1000+ participants

Scroll Space: Atlanta, 2019, fiber, dye, rubberbands, pins, glue, paint, wood, 10 x 10 x 10 feet

Scrollathon was brought to Dallas and Atlanta as part of speechless: different by design, a pioneering art exhibition exploring the spectrum of sensory experience and new approaches to accessibility and modes of communication within the museum setting. Co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA; Dallas, TX) and the High Museum of Art (HMA; Atlanta, GA) and curated by Sarah Schleuning, the Margot B. Perot Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, and interim Chief Curator at the DMA, the exhibition included a new commission by artists / brothers Steven and William Ladd. Their focus was to design and create a participatory environment in which senses can merge.

Over the course of four weeks in July/August, 2019, Steven and William engaged with over 1,700 community participants, including students, seniors, youths in detention centers, and the visually impaired. Each participant made a work of art associated with a personal experience; one by one, stories were shared with the group, reinforcing the power of contemporary art to articulate and give voice to personal truths. Next, individual voices were combined as the community artists formed groups to contribute to the Collaborative Masterwork, Scroll Space, a vibrant, tactile room composed entirely of 10,000+ hand-rolled scrolls.

Portrait Mural of 1000+ participants, National Scrollathon, Atlanta, GA

Signature Plate of 1000+ participants, National Scrollathon, Atlanta, GA, Archival paper, ink, 22.5 x 44 inches

Community Groups Atlanta
High Museum of Art
Bolton Elementary School
Boyd Elementary School
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta - Chamblee
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta - Warren
Cary Reynolds Elementary School
Center for the Visually Impaired
Common Good Atlanta
Department of Juvenile Justice
Global Village Project
Langston Hughes High School
Tapestry Charter School