Live Nude Model on Chair - 1.5 minutes sketch
1975 University of Chicago, Sculpture Major
"Cheshire Woman" - laminated plywood layers - carved with disc grinder
1976 University of Chicago
Naguib School of Sculpture, Beverly Shores, Indiana
1976- Mustafa Naguib - was an amazing teacher
Solar Sound Ring - Laminated plywood rings with hollowed mahagony wood balls suspended on tune-able piano strings, played with hard ball mallets
Meditation Zither, Copper Tubing with Mahagony Chin Rest and seven tune-able piano strings
Pittsburgh, Pa 1982-ish
Reindeer Bell - Hand hammered bronze with brass antlers 1987
Ellipse Bell - Hand hammered bronze with brass ellipse 1987
Hand Hammered Stainless Steel Gong with hammered bronze inserts
Three Rivers Arts Festival, PIttsburgh, PA, demonstrating bell making
1987-ish
Concept drawings for Vocal Communications Exhibit at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum - Exhibits Designed and built by John
Concept drawings for Vocal Communications Exhibit at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum - Exhibits Designed and built by John
The Vocal Chord Vibrations Demonstration Machine - With Flywheel, crankshaft and bellows allowing a 2 year old to generate 1 horsepower to make rubber membrane vibrate with sound. (Called the Raspberry Machine by Children's Museum Staff)
The hanging tools were for Children to hear the sound of their own voices
Close up of the vibration raspberry membrane
The "Mix-a-Phone"
Pairs of children would experiment to find which tubes where contact to communicate with a friend.....oh.....and you could only listen or talk while sharing encouraging cooperation in communication
Very Grateful to Betty Malezi-Hollinsworth for the Imaginarium Experience which I was a part of as a Musician, Sculptor and Dancer for several years. The program was based at the Pittsburgh Museum of Art, at Carnegie Center
Fiberglass, de-mountable Rainbow Dragon head. Often when the Imaginarium did workshops at schools we had a dragon parade
A de-mountable icosahedron assembly designed by John Lars, which served many uses including as a spaceship. The integration of art, music and dance in the Imaginarium was based on Rudolph Laban's theory of movement. The icosahedron demonstrated 12 planes of motion. Parameters of motion being Weight, Space, Time and Flow
Betty Malezi-Hollingsworth and crew playing a log drum made by John Lars from a recycled carpet roll tube