The ShedSpace Exhibitions is a series of artist-run presentations by a different local artist in a different shed each Saturday for the month of August.
Each artist gets one week; 3 days for installation, 3 days for breakdown, and one day in the middle, Saturday, for exhibition.
The week's experience in any of the four sheds places the artist in a dynamic exhibition process that is frozen for the audience on the fourth day, the day of exhibition. The only limits on his/her creativity are time and that the shed must be returned in the condition the artist received it, providing the audience with a tumultuosly process-ridden experience.
The ShedSpace Exhibitions is not an organization, nor is it funded by any grant, foundation, or institution. The participants believe that art is a powerful catalyst for dialogue on any issue, as well as a collision course for people and ideas that have been strangers too long. The participants also believe that neighborhoods are a type of civic space where people in a town of any size can gather to play and talk.
The original springboard for The ShedSpace Exhibitions was artist Ethel Shipton's "The Project Room," part of the San Antonio-based Blue Star Arts Complex