Grocery Bag Kite Project - Stuart Allen
Stuart Allen is an artist whose work deals with fundamental elements of perception such as light, time, gravity and space. He has shown photographs, kites and sculpture in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and abroad. His work is found in many private and public collections including the Tokyo Kite Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, the DiRosa Art Preserve, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, and U.S. Embassy collections in Canada, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, and the Republic of Georgia. Allen has completed permanent public art commissions for the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada and the Police Headquarters building in Davis, CA. His work has been published in a variety of books and journals including: Picturing California’s Other Landscape: the Great Central Valley, Terra Nova: Nature and Culture, You Are Here: the Journal of Creative Geography, Zyzzyva and Artweek. Allen has lectured or served as a visiting artist at many fine institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Weisman Art Museum, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and a number of university art departments nationwide. Allen studied architecture at Kansas University and graduated from the photography and video department of the Kansas City Art Institute in 1994. He lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife Kelly Lyons, their daughter Aidan and son Vincent. Allen is represented by the following galleries: PDNB, Dallas, TX; JayJay, Sacramento, CA; Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, Australia; Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO.
Stuart Allen, artist, photographer, sculptor, public art, kite, kite maker, art consultant, Jayjay, haw contemporary, pdnb gallery, science and art
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Grocery Bag Kite Project

January 31, 2008 In special projects

Grocery Bag Kite Project

Here’s a project inspired by a grocery bag. In 2007, the Texas-based Central Market stores began using a paper bag bearing a clever little narrative about how the bag would like to be made into a kite (see the website link for the full text). Since I have a reputation as a kite-guy, a bunch of people called my attention to the bag. I put out a request for used bags and soon had a large pile of them in the studio.

I made six kites using the bags that range in size from about 18 inches to over 6 feet tall. All are based on traditional kite designs: some Eastern, some Western. I then invited a group of my stellar friends and family to join me at the beach in Port Aransas, Texas for a weekend of kite making and flying. A good time was had by all and we managed to fulfill the wishes of quite a few of those grocery bags… Here’s the link to the project page, and to the photographs of the kites.

This was the second installment of this event. For information and photos from the first year, follow this link.