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Jennifer D. Van Horn

Community Catch Net

The "Community Catch Net" will be a collaborative sculpture project between Van Horn and local youth. Discarded cloth will be recylced into ribbon yarn, knitted into panels and sewn together into the form of a net, much like one a trapeeze artist might use to break a potential fall. Participants will design and create individual portions of the net and will help sew the final piece. "The Catch Net" will be exhibited in public places where youthand adults alike can be reminded of our community ties and support networks.

 

Jennifer Van Horn is a graduate sculpture student at UNM. Originally fromBuffalo, New York, she graduated in 2000 with a BA in Liberal Arts fromHoughton College, in Houghton, New York. After college, Van Horn travelledto Kenya and Tanzania where she studied with traditional potters and craftartistians. She has worked as a nanny, a social worker, and a teacher's assistant, and an instructor at UNM. These expereinces in combination withher education lead her to the Place Program to begin a community artproject called "The Catch Net".