Grounded

For eleven days before the Arts Trust closed down the Workspace for renovations, building partner A.P.E. invited the public in for “Making Ground,” an event that turned the Workspace floor into a canvas “upon which ​artists and the wider community are invited to create, reflect, and imagine together.” The full program of ”Making Ground” extended well beyond chalk marks on a floor to encompass community investigations into themes of “home, land, ancestry, colonization, assimilation, belonging, and possibility.” The scribbles, drawings, texts and tones left behind transformed the floor into an intriguing bit of ephemeral community art. In due time, the surface will be covered by a new sprung floor for the Workroom.