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, November 6, 2007

So that was fun...





Hey All!

Thanks for the generous amounts of well-wishing and food-offering over the past 24 hours. I'll keep this one short and sweet, as typing with one hand sucks almost as much as trying to form complete sentences while on percoset does. Anyway, the main thing that you guys should know is that the amount of damage to my body is roughly equivalent to the amount of damage that it's strategically placed left shoulder was able to inflict on the largest non-commercial truck Chevrolet manufactures (the Silverado 3500hd). I am absurdly proud of myself.

I even got the paramedics to send me a picture of the truck to my phone before they dropped me off at the ER. I'll show it to you guys on Thursday. It's pretty intense.

That being said, considering the speeds at which the truck and I were traveling, I am really lucky that I fared as well as I did.

Attached are some pics of various bits of broken carbon fiber. Enjoy!!
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3 comments:

Marion said...

remember you are mortal!!!

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:10:00 PM
cazhog said...

Wow! I'm really glad and amazed you weren't more seriously hurt. I am also very sorry about your bike...that was a really nice bike. When your better, the weather improves, and you've got another bike we'll have to go for a ride (preferably on a low traffic route).

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:13:00 PM
Marion said...

don't you dare!!!!
we want to see a picture of the injured not the bike. :)

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 4:26:00 PM

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