Daniel Shieh
Sound Fort
Postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19 school closure.
Location: Melrose School, 76 Melrose Avenue
GPS: 41.50005, -71.38045
Artist’s Statement
Sound Fort is created through the collective effort of the student community at Melrose. Through art classes at Melrose School, students create their own wooden wind chimes to hang in the fort, celebrating the coming together of each student’s creativity in a symphony of sounds. This fort, as a shared space, is where each member of Melrose school can see their work alongside each other’s and hear the soft, collective chiming of everyone’s handiwork.
Biography
Daniel Shieh is an artist from Taiwan. He received an MDes degree in Art, Design, and the Public Domain at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He creates interactive artworks that encourage participants to view each other in a different perspective. His installations have been commissioned by Art in Odd Places, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, University City Municipal Commission on Arts & Letters, and Harvard Office for the Arts. He has been invited as an artist in residence to the School of Visual Arts, Cité Internationale des Arts, Franconia Sculpture Park, Spruce Arts, Laboratory Spokane, the Studios at MASS MoCA, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Wave Pool Gallery, WNC Sculpture Park, Monson Arts, Hambidge Center, and Wassaic Project.