Chair and Tell http://www.chairandtell.com HGR’s First Annual Chair&Tell will showcase design ingenuity and creative reuse of industrial surplus equipment as participants construct their own interpretation of an inspirational chair. Read on for the details. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:52:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Ingenuity Fest Coverage http://www.chairandtell.com/?p=250 http://www.chairandtell.com/?p=250#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:15:20 +0000 admin http://www.chairandtell.com/?p=250

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]]> http://www.chairandtell.com/?feed=rss2&p=113 0 Local Artists Transform Used Industrial Equipment Into Unique Chairs http://www.chairandtell.com/?p=106 http://www.chairandtell.com/?p=106#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:40:27 +0000 admin http://chairandtell.com/?p=106 Continue Reading]]> Cleveland, OH, June 24, 2011 — HGR seeks talented local artists to participate in the First Annual Chair&Tell. In partnership with local public art recipients, the event showcases the creative reuse of materials from HGR’s warehouse as local Cleveland artists are invited to build a stunning and unique chair out of industrial surplus equipment. With over 12 acres of items to choose from at the HGR showroom in Euclid, OH, the artists will select up to $300 worth of materials that they will transform into a chair iconic of industrial equipment.

“I like to think of myself as a chair guy,” says Kevin Busta, Artist and Chair&Tell participant. “Walking around HGR is inspirational…Sometimes I’m pulled to a certain angle of a piece.”

But Chair&Tell is not just about innovative design—it is also about the process behind it. Artists will document the transformation through photos and videos. The images will be displayed on the Chair&Tell website and at the kick-off Chair&Tell event this fall at Tower City where artists will be available to tell the story of the transformation.

Aidan Cho, HGR’s CMO and creator of Chair&Tell, explains, “Chair&Tell was conceived from the idea that surplus equipment can have multiple lives, and in each life there is a story. A city built on the promise of industrial manufacturing is the perfect setting in which we can inspire people to reinvent and give used industrial equipment a new life.”

The finished chairs will remain on display at Tower City for several weeks following the event, and will then be moved to other public art spaces throughout Cleveland.

Interested artists should submit an application by July 1st via www.chairandtell.com. Accepted applicants will receive a $500 stipend and have the opportunity to have their chair displayed as public art throughout Cleveland. HGR also seeks public art chair recipients interested in temporary, permanent, fixed or rotating displays.

For more information about Chair&Tell, contact Ayleen Perez at 512.698.9060 or via email at aperez@hgrinc.com.

 

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