Getting People To Participate in Art

As this was the first event for the project, things were bound to go wrong and they did. The first event was held on Tuesday and everything went wrong, but most importantly, no one showed up to take part in my artwork. This artwork depends on others to exist, but it's up to me to get people to actually want to be a part of it.

1. Help
Friend are important here, that's something I had always taken for granted. A project of this size is practically impossible to pull off alone.

[Thanks Danielle, Kimberley, Kaitlyn, Donovan, Paige, Tamryn, Sibu and everyone else who helped!]

My friends helped me with setting up our shack-like gazebo, thinking of ways to lure people, making ads and getting people to participate by standing around and looking busy.

Friends luring people and participating!

2. A Reward.

People don't like doing things for nothing in return unless they know you. So, I rewarded people with lemonade. Luckily for me, it was quite toasty today, perfect for giving away lemonade.

3. Commitment.

I really, really wanted to give up on this after the horror that was Tuesday. I'm glad that I didn't, today was fun and I learned quite a bit about the people that I spend my day with.

Here are some ads Kimberley made for the project: