Two Boxes with Scrolls ©2009 Michael Jacobs. Each box (in sleeve) measures 2 5/8" T x 3 3/4" W x 1" D. Box on right has two tiny books on back that swing out to each side. Each opening has a polyester film 'window'. Scrolls are made from hand-painted tyvek glued to dowels.

The Everett Arts Council Gallery is hosting an exhibit titled

Art Education in Action: The Mathematics of Art (May 7th – June 25th)

with an opening night reception on Thursday, May 7th, from 5-8pm. I will have two interactive sculptures in the exhibit – tiny boxes with working scrolls in each. I will be on hand opening night to demonstrate how I designed, measured, cut out and assembled all the components for these pieces. I’ve participated in this exhibit in the past, and it is always exciting to see how ‘Artists present fractions, formulas, and angles in a whole new light’.

Two scroll boxes inside sleeves. The window on the sleeve at right and cut out areas in doors reveal part of hand-lettered alphabet on scroll.

Two boxes with scrolls have been removed from sleeves. Each box has two 'doors'. Doors on box at left open left and right, and doors on the box at right open to the top and bottom.

Letters on this scroll move back and forth horizontally.

Letters on this scroll move up and down vertically.

When you go to the exhibit, be sure to visit the Gallery Store. Great Stuff! The following images and descriptions of the work by currently featured store artists are on the Arts Council Gallery Website – click here for additional information.

Jules Anslow

Jules Anslow’s sculptural painting style encompasses multi-level paintings, three-dimensional murals, and smaller figurative pieces.

Binky Bergsman

Binky Bergsman loses herself in ‘in the smells, the colors, the depth, texture and luminosity’ of her encaustic paintings.

Kim Groff-Harrington

Kim Groff-Harrington’s work comes from her ‘desire and need to reduce/reuse/recycle, and the challenge of using discarded and surplus materials to revive and continue in the folk art tradition of taking broken, unwanted, discarced materials and bringing new life to them’.