The App Expo 3G features sculptural and conceptual works by several local artists, technologists, and app enthusiasts. The work comes from a strategically crafted design challenge related to the development of tangible (non-screen) apps that help kids understand internet safety, responsibility, and the trappings of the digital reality.

The Divine Woman is a feminine unveiling of the emotions of postpartum through paintings in watercolors, dyes, acrylic paint and multimedia. Takara wants moms who have had children to connect, remember, and reconnect with emotions and memories.

The work in “The work in “Less Guts Than Most” is an exploration of the anxiety and body horror that comes with a chronic illness diagnosis.  Using soft sculpture and printmaking, Lauren Bailey manipulates scientific illustration into nauseating patterns and intimate illustrations of her perception of the inner body’s workings. “Less Guts Than Most” investigates the body as temporary and the will behind survival.

Do you want to share your creativity with us? Join us as we celebrate local artists and makers in the Bloomfield, Garfield, Friendship, and East Liberty neighborhoods.

“These words are the gaps, and the art was my solution.” Benjamin Delano grew up with dyslexia, mixing up similar letters and spelling phonetically. He experienced gaps in his education. He filled these gaps by exploring creative playing, building, and making.