2-D to 3-D: All Together Now (2025)

2-D to 3-D: All Together Now (2025)

Statement

2-D to 3-D: All Together Now is a life-sized diorama specialty pop-up shop that “sells” hats, masks, samurai helmets, crowns, wallets, customized bags, wallpaper and tic-tac-toe, all made out of repurposed architectural drawings* on vellum and bond paper.

2-D to 3-D: All Together Now takes cues from the various uses of dioramas in creative fields such as architecture, theater set design, interior design, and art exhibition curation, to name a few. During the creative learning process, students practiced hybrid book arts and origami techniques, and initially worked individually on small scale projects – miniature artists books, boxes and dioramas not included in this exhibition - using paper and board to build familiarity with tools and terminology, and to gain materials handling skills. Subsequently, all students worked in cooperation to prepare larger 2-dimensional materials and ultimately worked collaboratively to transform the materials into scaled-up 3-dimensional sculptural forms. Black paint was used sparingly to enhance each piece and to allow focus to remain on physical shapes and sculptural aspects – rather than to linger on surface designs - and to provide a cohesive appearance to the entire installation.

2-D to 3-D: All Together Now is the culmination of two weeks of individual, cooperative and collaborative studio work, while having fun.

*courtesy of the family of Stephen Wilmoth, a Carmel, California based architect, geometer, artist, and concept developer of the term "Morphohedron", which refers to a specific geometric structure created by combining all five Platonic solids (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron) in a particular arrangement.

Summer Camp Art & Design: 3D Art & Sculpture Students (ages 10 thru 14)

 Zyaire, Willow, Raina, Louis, Hannah, Deanna, Allie

Artist Mentor

C.K.Itamura

Artist Mentor Bio

C.K.Itamura is a Yonsei, Nikkei interdisciplinary artist based in California. Her conceptual, visual, performance and community engagement art serves to engage intergenerational audiences in the exploration of observation, contemplation and expressive imagination. Itamura is a recipient of the Discovered Awards for Emerging Visual Artists of Sonoma County, a co-founder of Book Arts Roadshow, a Board Member of Berkeley Commonplace, an Artist-in-Residence of San Francisco Unified School District Library Department and an Artist Mentor of San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED). Itamura creates and provides: professional development workshops for educators; hands-on art-making workshops for students; and makes art-making accessible to the general public.

Type

Educational, Materials Reuse, Cooperative, Collaborative

Venue

SFArtsED Gallery at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA

Date

Summerscape 2025 exhibition August 9 thru September 13, 2025

Acknowledgements

2-D to 3-D: All Together Now was made possible, in part, by Stephen Wilmoth and the family of Stephen Wilmoth, Spring Maxfield, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, R.C.Wong, Diana Jameson, Matt and Angela Broberg, and Conrad Praetzel