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SLINGERIE 2005
Returning to the festival after a spectacular reception last year is Erie native Brad Ford and his unusual participatory-art experience called Sling Paint. Now living in Salt Lake City, Ford developed this technique several years ago, and when it debuted at the 2003 Utah Arts festival, he was presented with the Silver award for best new event in an existing festival from the prestigious International Festival & Events Association.
Ford suspends blank canvases, then gives his audience - participants must be age 16 and over - carte blanche to paint with them at will with the tools and pigments he’s provided. Sometimes they use brushes and rollers, sometimes squirt guns or even various parts of their bodies.
“I’m 6’5”, so I can pick up most people,” he slyly warns - and he’s not above doing just that, then using his victim as a human paint brush. It’s a good thinghe uses washable Crayola paints, especially since, she says, “ if you stand within five feet of the canvas, you will get paint on you.”
If you don’t want to actually participate in the painting, just stand back and enjoy the show.
“Even if you just stand there, you’ll see something you wouldn’t ever normally see,” ford promises.
Unlike last year, this year’s creations will be available for purchase, either by those who help create them or anyone who fancies them. They’ll be priced at $40. The paint will be slung all three days of the festival at Ninth and State.
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