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SAGA Awardee Factory Town on Their Installation "Things Change"

Ellen Picken and Rajah Bose started Factory Town to combine their interests in visual art and storytelling. With SAGA support, Factory Town will be creating six kinetic sculptures which transform the familiar handheld “Jacob’s Ladder” toy into an over-sized interactive experience on impermanence. The goals are to offer an interesting perspective on the state of affairs in our world today and remind people that change is inevitable and within our control. 

Another goal is to create a work that has rarely been experienced by our Spokane audience, at least in Spokane. We are offering an installation that the audience makes come alive, that they are not only allowed to touch, but encouraged to. 

This interactive work is scheduled for exhibition September 2-30, 2019 in the Terrain Gallery in the Washington Cracker Building (Exhibit opening party: September 6, 2019), and will be a part of First Friday Art Walk in Downtown Spokane.

More information about Factory Town, the artists and their other works, can be found at: https://factorytown.co

Chris Maccini previously worked at SPR as Morning Edition host and producing arts and special programming such as The Bookshelf, Poetry Moment, Northwest Arts Review, special features and more.