It priviledges extroversion, material and practice-based inquiry, play and pretend. It suggests alternative solutions for contending with our material culture. Elsewhere creates examples instead of models for imaginative approaches to recognizing history, inspiring transformation, and building connections through people of all kinds.
I love the way Sherman describes it:Ī unique grounds for social connection through a comfortable context and responsive, Elsewhere approaches the museum-as-medium, a constant experiment with collaborative systems, public storytelling, and shared resource. Elsewhere becomes a socially inclusive, participatory, immersive art experience. Like any good living history museum, it points to culture, and perhaps moreso in this case, a shift in culture: the generational, sociological effects of personal and global change through love, war, peace, loss, and the natural process of aging. 50 artists per year from around the world go Elsewhere per year, creating site-specific works with and within the living museum that forms an unusually intimate relationship between contemporary art process and people of all kinds. Since discovering the store in 2003, Elsewhere has gone from a dusty store with one working electric socket across the three stories to an interactive world for rethinking living, working, and playing. Sherman describes the projects’ trajectory like this: So they moved into the building, and it became a nonprofit “living museum” - a combination of place and the objects within it. There was an opportunity here for something unique to this site, and to Greensboro. After they discovered it in 2003, Sherman and Scheer poked around, shared ideas, and filled a box with curious objects and took it to their Collaborative Fiction group, which sparked the students’ curiosity and creativity.īut the building–so much more than just a building, and it’s contents–so much more than just “stuff,” beckoned them back. When Joe passed away in 1955, Sylvia focused on fabric surplus amongst other thrifted items, and over several years she amassed a gigantic, mountainous assemblage of surplus in the 12,000 sq.
Originally opened in 1939 by Sylvia and Joe Gray as a second-hand furniture store, after the Second World War the shop became an army surplus store. Sherman and Scheer recognized a unique treasure, and an opportunity to create a living art space. But it was anything but empty–in fact, it was packed floor to ceiling. Piedmont Blues Preservation Society ha sbeen operation out of Greensboro, NC since 1985 presenting the Carolina Blues Festival, Blues in the Schools programming, and bringing culture to the aged and less fortunate in the Piedmont region.Elsewhere was discovered/found/(re)born in 2003 by Stephanie Sherman and George Scheer (and still currently co-directed by the two) - it was the late grandmother of the latter whose fateful thrift shop in Greensboro, NC, shut since 1997, had been left empty since her passing. Bass will be knocking and the you'll love the blues, soul & gospel cuts these DJs bring into focus for this unmatched fundraiser experience as they articulate the evolution of Black music from the Juke Joint to the DJ & House Music scene.Īll Proceeds benefit Piedmont Blues Preservation Society, an educational, charitable and historical 501(c)3 non profit.
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ALVIN SHAVERS ( Greensboro, NC) SHAANTI (Orbit, Charlotte,NC) Sat, July 2 9PM-1AM Elsewhere Living Museum 606 S Elm St 27406 About this Eventīlues Groove House Dance Party Returns for good cause! Dance as you celebrate the July 4th Weekend in Elsewhere Living Museum surrounded by wall to wall wonders museum wonders and probably the ceiling too!Ĭhill in the lounge or party on the dance floor with the projector & and a full cash bar.