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Saturday, June 20, 2015 - All Day | Cost: $5*
*RSVP required to programs@soex.org (Attendance is limited to 16 participants) $5 materials fee; Kids over 12 welcome with an adult.

Southern Exposure | 3030 20th Street, San Francisco, CA

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“Up In The Air” Whimsical Interactive Airship Construction Art Project | SF

Collaborate with renowned artist Bernie Lubell as he sets out to build an airship in the gallery at Southern Exposure. In two workshops and ongoing drop-in studio hours, visitors and Bernie will work together to create an air powered flying machine inspired by Frederick Marriott’s 1869 airship Avitor, expanding on Bernie’s ongoing research into breath and the force of air.

Bernie Lubell creates unlikely wood mechanical metaphors for the human condition. Gears, pulleys, bellows, valves, levers, human force and sophisticated engineering power his interactive wooden machines. As an artist who has lived and worked in the Bay Area for 40 years, his influence is felt in the work of many local artists.

“Up In The Air” Airship Building Schedule

Exhibit Opening | June 13, 2015, 1-6 pm

Drop-in construction: Tuesdays – Fridays, June 16-26, noon to 6 pm

Workshop 1: Heart/Walk/Whistle | June 13, 2015, 1-5 pm
RSVP required to programs@soex.org (Attendance is limited to 16 participants)
$5 materials fee

When so much in San Francisco feels up in the air, join Bernie Lubell to explore the sense of being airborne. Each participant in this workshop will design and build a machine inspired by a trio of words culled from Bernie’s research into the feeling of weightlessly waiting to see which way the wind may blow.

Workshop 2: Experimental Elevations | June 20, 1-5 pm
RSVP required to programs@soex.org (Attendance is limited to 16 participants)
$5 materials fee; Kids over 12 welcome with an adult.

Hand-construct mechanisms to generate hydrogen and hot air, which will be used to fill balloons and send them aloft. Part of Bernie Lubell’s exhibition Up In The Air.

“Up In The Air” Closing Party  | June 26, 6-8 pm
Join Southern Exposure for a celebration of Bernie Lubell’s work and everything that we created together over the past two weeks during his exhibition Up In the Air.

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Cost: $5*
*RSVP required to programs@soex.org (Attendance is limited to 16 participants) $5 materials fee; Kids over 12 welcome with an adult.
Categories: *Top Pick*, Art & Museums, Lectures & Workshops, San Francisco
Address: 3030 20th Street, San Francisco, CA