Works in Progress

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TREEscape 
@ Children's Museum of the Lowcountry
Charleston, SC

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© smArt Image, LLC

Thanks AH!!!

above photos of TREEscape taken by Matthew Bolt

TREEscape 
@ Children's Museum of the Lowcountry
Charleston, SC

Jennifer Van Winkle, artist and TREEscape exhibit designer
in collaboration with
Mark Dodd, engineering consultant and builder,
Matthew Bolt, photographer,
Bennett Goodman, designer/ carpenter
for Operation TREEscape,
Shannon Howard, felt board layout designer,
Ken Datas, installation assistant,
and the entire CML staff
additional assistance
Keren Allen, Marc Brown, Mike Christensen, 
Jason Dodd, Don MacMeekin, Wingsin Tong, 
Key Whiston, and Laura Wright

and Special Thanks to
Bob Hirosky

My Artist-in-Residence at CML &
TREEscape was generously sponsored by

Darby Family Foundation
Joseph J. Schott Foundation
Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation
The Beach Company
SCANA Corporation
Southern Lumber and Millwork
Sonoco Construction
The Wurth Wood Group
Charleston County School of the Arts
Charleston Stage Company
GDC Home
Gibbes Museum of Art
Hazelnut Kids
Lord and Evans Paint
People, Places & Quilts
Royall Ace Hardware

THANK YOU!!!

One last moment with TREEscape before driving back to Charlottesville, VA!

gonna miss you!!

and more

Final touches on TREEscape!!

GRRREEAATTT!!!! almost there!!

and starting to clean up!!!

The ceiling photos of the canopy of the Angel Oak go up today!!

Many thanks to the pole designed by KD….and to KW and KD for all your hard work!!

(ceiling image by KD…)

wrapping branches with donated fabric that I hand dyed…. this is to be the under layer of brown….

we wrap… and

…and we wrap…

…..and we wrap.

I start transitioning the tree trunk carpet up to the tree branches with scraps of the carpet, cutting shapes as I go…

Fabric starts to go up….

more branches in the beams….. Thanks KD & MB!!

Making more branches…. had to start making 20 and 16 inch sizes from the 24 inch tubes…  squeezing it down to size.

More branches go up!  Thanks KD!!!

Then re-cutting edges for the Behind the Scenes paper relief sign….  and MB stains the table!! thanks MB!!

at night I go back to Redux and begin painting over my faux finish walls……

good bye brick!!