Teen-Built “Dizzy the Cat” (with kinetic arm)
Future Sculpture Racers….
Sculpture Racing challenges you to find your object,
weld on wheels, and join the race
Sculpture Racing puts the tools in your hands*
People’s Sculpture Racing’s mission is to be inclusive and to bring the joys of imagining, designing, building, creating, making mistakes and learning from mistakes, with team-mates, in a fun way, and in public space. Our current outreach is towards youth, anticipating opening ever outwards to people from all walks and wheels of life. At the same time, we seek to encourage racing sculptures that are well-conceived, well-engineered, and exhibit artistic ambition and daring.
To be both inclusive and maintain high standards, we seek to build on the experience of our inaugural year with a pairing of a non-juried, open design event to enlist new participants and a juried race to aim high. In 2015, we offered an open Cambridge Science Festival event and the juried Cambridge Arts River Festival Race.
Racing Dizzy in Circumambulation of the MIT Museum
*From the First Manifesto of People’s Sculpture Racing
PSR Chief Engineer Jeff Del Papa led the teen workshop and is figured with the teen builders above. Images by Andrew Held.
Offerings & Aims
Offerings
The People’s Sculpture Racing team is comprised of arts and engineering educators who can provide day or weeklong workshops for your school or youth program, or facilitate in-school programming. (We also offer adult programs.)
Aims
We are in conversation with school and out-of-school programs to produce entries for annual open youth-oriented races in conjunction with the Cambridge Science Festival and beyond, and to encourage youth to submit entries for the June 2016 Cambridge Arts River Festival Race.
2015 Workshop Images
See more images from our Parts and Crafts and Science Festival/MIT Museum and Artisan’s Asylum workshops.
2015 Workshop Images
See more images from our Parts and Crafts and Science Festival/MIT Museum and Artisan’s Asylum workshops.
Rosie the Robot and other contraptions made at the MIT Museum during the Cambridge Science Festival, 2015.
Youth build and race sculptures. This race took place at the MIT Museum.
Kids love attending our races and exhibitions!