Skate it or Hang it!? Time to Make it Happen

courtesy MODA/ Todd Vaught

Todd Vaught, Curator for the Skate it or Hang it!? Exhibition is anxiously awaiting your designs/sticker/logo for the upcoming skateboarding show. Please post as many as you can on your blogs over the weekend. He wishes to look at what you are doing by mid-week prior to your spring break. It's important that you keep this project at the forefront of what you will be doing for the next few weeks. MODA and Todd are your clients.

It is very important that their trust in you to develop creative work for the exhibition is kept at full focus.

I got an email from Todd this morning and he said they are finishing up the poster currently and will forwarding that to you once it's approved. Stay tuned. This poster will be used throughout your own work in various ways. However, YOU are creating logos of your own (that might be seen in stickers/posters/bumper stickers/other collateral.)











June 16 - September 16, 2012

Skate It or Hang It!? will be held at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) from June 16, 2012 to September 16, 2012. The exhibition will examine the visual aspects skateboarding, a sport important to contemporary youth culture since the 1970s, by presenting a broad range of styles, imagery, and visual expression in skateboard art.

With a broad focus on skateboard graphics—in particular the styles and methods used to embellish skateboard decks—the exhibition will appeal to a broad range of skateboarders, designers, artists and to Atlanta’s youth in general. Visitors will come to understand skateboard graphics in a variety of ways, as Skate It or Hang It!? will include:

A survey of skateboard art from the 1970s through the current day
Original installations by local artists influenced by skateboard art such as Alex Brewer aka HENSE and Charlie Owens
Educational activities in which children are invited to design and create their own skateboard decks
Interviews with VCJ and Jim Phillips, along with personal appearances and art by Sean Cliver, Andy Howell, Wes Humpton, Lance Mountain, Don Pendleton, and Steve Olson
An exhibition demonstrating the steps by which skateboard decks are fabricated
A 9 foot interactive skateboard sticker exhibition

Exhibition curated by W. Todd Vaught. This program is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.