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Granite Reef Senior Center

Kacey Joyce, Victor Maldonado and Robert Consentino (on behalf of the late David Joyce)


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From August 26 through September 2, 2004 the public was invited to the Scottsdale Civic Center & Mustang Libraries, along with a variety of "traveling photo booth" locatiPortraits for David Joyce mosaic on porcelainons in the Scottsdale area to snap self-portraits in a custom photo booth and leave their mark on Scottsdale. The many thousands of photos captured will be digitally transformed into eye-dazzling mosaic murals on porcelain and placed permanently at the Scottsdale Senior Center at Granite Reef (a new facility to be opened in early 2006).

  Community participation workshops were held in August and September, 2004, during which more than 11,000 images of Scottsdale residents, visitors and noted sites were obtained.

  Design ideas for the final mural images were submitted by the artists for public review in January 2005.

  Fabrication of steel-framed porcelain murals began in early spring oDavid Joyce photographer_father and sonf 2005.

  Installation of art occured after completion of the Senior Center building in early 2006.

Digital photographic murals will be placed in the new Senior Center at Granite Reef and McKellips which opens in early 2006. Artists Victor Maldonado, Kacey Joyce, and Robert Consentino conducted workshops that allowed people to bring family members, friends, pets, and existing photographs of loved ones to use in the large composite photographic art project.

The work is designed to last for many generations and provide an overview of the extensive range and diversity of the Scottsdale Community. Visitors to the center will be able to find smaller, postage-stamp size images combining to form a larger composition. The unique combination of digital photography on porcelain creates a luminous and ultra realistic photographic effect.

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Many participants in the photographic workshops also responded to interview questions about their thoughts on community, environment, and family. These responses will contribute to a future project that connects to archiving the history of the people and city of Scottsdale.

 

 

 

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