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.

Monday, June 14, 2010

MLAB PREMIER IN NYC

MLAB will be premiering in NYC at Lumen Fest from 4pm-12am on Saturday, June 26th at 561 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY.

Lumen Fest is sponsored by  the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island. For more info, please visit the Lumen Fest website.

COME CHECK US OUT!!!
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

mlab and 601 Tully on twitter

follow MLAB on twitter:

http://twitter.com/themlab

and 601 Tully:


http://twitter.com/601tully
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

MLAB and Fundred

MLAB is an official Collection Center for the Fundred project! MLAB is the only mobile collection center. We are currently scheduled to rendezvous with Fundred's Sous Terre Armored Truck on May 11 for a pick up event. More details soon to come!

Check out the Fundred Website, and the collection route for more info!

Also, please check out these images from when MLAB met up with Mel Chin and his Fundred Team at the NYSATA conference in Rye Brook, NY!

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Friday, January 29, 2010

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Sunday, November 15, 2009

MLAB @ NYSATA





MLAB LIVE at RYE BROOK HILTON
[[NYSATA Conference]]

The Mobile Literacy Arts Bus (MLAB) is an artist-run, renovated 1984 American Eagle Recreational Vehicle that exists as a flexible space open to community members' proposals for alternative educational and cultural programming. Artist Marion Wilson conceived founded and directed the renovation of MLAB and the current day to day management of MLAB has been turned over to students, community members and the Syracuse city school district. The pilot year MLAB served one high school, and now in its second year, is serving seventeen schools working with Say Yes to Education, offering art, photography, and writing programming in their after-school programs, as well as with NY Gear Up, offering a conversation and creativity space for young women in high school through an MLAB developed program called Girl Talk. Members of MLAB and 601 Tully Enterprises develop and facilitate these programs.

*** Artist Marion Wilson, MLAB founder, and original MLAB Design/Build Team Members Zach Seibold, Jessica Posner, and Samantha Harmon will be there, conducting a workshop on Friday, entitled:

BEUYS IN THE HOOD: Paradigms and Problematics of Community Arts Praxis
[[Friday, November 20, 3-4:50PM]]

***Artist Mel Chin, this year's keynote speaker, will be presenting his Fundred Project. MLAB will be featured as the Nation's only Mobile Fundred Collection Site.


For more information, visit:


www.mobileliteracyartsbus.blogspot.com

www.fundred.org

www.nysata.org
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