MLAB MISSION STATEMENT


The Mobile Literacy Arts Bus (MLAB) is an artist-run, renovated recreational vehicle that exists as a flexible space open to community members’ proposals for alternative educational and cultural programming.

MLAB is the collaborative effort of the 2007-2008 Social Sculpture class at Syracuse University, comprised of 10 art and architecture students and lead by artist and Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts of Syracuse University, Marion Wilson. Our mission was to transform a used, 1984 Recreational Vehicle Bus into a Mobile Literacy and Arts Bus for use by the Syracuse City School District and the greater Syracuse Community. MLAB serves as a physical manifestation of Syracuse University’s Scholarship in Action initiative, by pairing University resources with community needs in an attempt to address the staggering drop out rates in the Syracuse City School District High Schools. Through the School of Education at Syracuse University, incredible curricula that bridge photography, poetry and literacy currently exist within the public schools-- however due to a crisis of space, the schools don't always have the space or resources to house it. MLAB is this space. The bus serves as a mobile classroom, digital photo lab, gallery space, and community center. As a team, we did it all: demolition, design, and construction.

MLAB is made possible from the generous support of the School of Education at Syracuse University and Entitiative.


Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Mrco Camacho says.....

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i think that this is a great project to help out with students being
able to express their artistic ablilties, which they really could not
do that well before because they did not have sufficient space to have
this class correctly. with the moblie literacy bus they can do this.

WHAT I THINK ABOUT PUBLIC ART:
i think that public art is awesome. i think just getting to see a
piece of art without wakling into a museum and it just being in a
public space where everyone can see it is awesome. i also think that
it would be inspired, if i liked the work and saw it out in public i
would want to do an art piece. i was actually planning a little later
in life that i was going to put up a public piece. but thats how i feel

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

All art is public art