(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Do you ever just want to spend a night getting dirty? Being bad has never felt so good, after a group of people created some crazy art in Colorado Springs on purpose.
“I just kind of let my hands do the rest. I didn’t really have a plan or anything, so I just started, and we ended up here,” said one “bad” artist.
Gentle strokes, dirty fingers, and fun for all ages–the idea is making art that is intentionally bad. The event might be one of the messiest events you’ll ever attend.
“In most areas of our lives, we have rules and guidelines. But here, there are no rules. There’s no judgment. So, you are free to make whatever you want,” said Leah Capezio, Librarian at Pikes Peak Library District.
On Tuesday, July 22, the group at Penrose Library got the chance to color outside the lines.
“I’ve been recently exploring some more space things. I saw the little black pipe cleaners and how they kind of look like lights, and I thought that this could be little stars, at least once it all dries up,” said a “bad” artist.
They used glitter, dinosaurs, glue, and paint brushes, which lined a room in the Penrose Library on Tuesday night, and with no talent came no judgment for these folks who let loose.
“I just really picked things out that I thought were ugly in the magazine because I was like, ‘Yes, the most stylish sweaters, come on, they’re so ugly,'” said another “bad” artist.
People spent the night trying to get creative, like Ciara Moore, who spent her 26th birthday at the event.
“I have an upside-down theme in a lot of my work; I do a lot of my art upside down. So, this upside-down immediately kind of called to me,” said Moore.
And for Marian Stone, it was her first time, but far from her last, making out-of-this-world art.
“I had to have an idea. So, my idea is, I am very much into UFOs … it’s a building, a kind of a community kind of thing,” said Stone.
If you missed the event, there are plenty of opportunities to be bad… at art of course, coming up on Saturday, July 26, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
