First POP-UP Cincy installation set for weekend

The first installment of Uptown Consortium‘s art and cuisine series, POP-UP Cincy, will take place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24-25 in Avondale. Concept Camp, the first of the series, will focus on the local technology and design sectors.
 
The event aims to provide artists of a variety of backgrounds with a space to work and receive feedback from other people within Cincinnati’s creative community, as well as encourage others to articulate and share ideas.
 
“It’s kind of about the struggle for a lot of the creative people in the city, that work in different disciplines, to know and have time to share what they do and get feedback from other creative individuals,” says POP-UP Cincy organizer Catherine Richards. “There are all these different people working in the city doing amazing things, but they’re often times working so hard in their own sphere that they often don’t have time to overlap with other spheres of creativity.”
 
A group of participating artists plan to make a screen of folded modular paper units that come together, and then install the piece in the storefront window, in which the larger community will collaborate. The event will occupy two storefronts.
 
“At first it was going to be just one space, but we were able to secure another space right across the street, which is where a bunch of artists are going to be working and doing installations,” Richards says. “Some people are going to be doing on-site drawings on the wall. We’re really taking over these two storefronts with a variety of things.”
 
The event will be open to the public Saturday evening, from 5-7 p.m., in Avondale at the corner of Burnet and Rockdale avenues.