Interactive Arts

Saturday June 9 | 10 AM- 5 PM

Virtual Reality | 10 AM-3 PM
Pump House Dayton Theater. Experience the art of virtual reality!

Cardboard City
Help create a model of the city using re purposed materials.

Frame & Photograph
Grab a frame, frame your favorite things at Artspire and take a photo!

Facepainting | 10 AM-2 PM
Have your face painted by a professional artist! (nontoxic, washable face paint)

Handbells
Grab a few friends and start your own handbell choir!

Poet-Trees
Create a poetry ornament with your own original poem and help us decorate our Poet-Trees!

Percussion Tubes
Make music on our colorful percussion tubes.

Crowdsource Sculpture
Artspire Attendees will work together throughout the day to build a sculpture using provided materials.

Sidewalk Chalk
Grab some sidewalk chalk and help us decorate the Artspire grounds. Write your name, trace your hand or write our tagline: “You Belong.”

Demonstration Arts

Friday & Saturday | June 8 & 9

Sandsculpting
sponsored by Agropur Ingredients
Friday & Saturday June 8 & 9

Paper-making with Martha Schwem
Saturday June 9 10 AM – 12 PM

Fluid Art with John Haverty
Saturday June 9 12 PM – 2 PM

Painting with Ashton Hall
Saturday June 9 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM

 

Featured Projects

Saturday June 9 | 10 AM- 5 PM

Artspire Public Art Project
This project includes three works that were submitted, juried and selected for display at La Crosse City Hall. The three selected works will be unveiled Saturday, June 9 at La Crosse City Hall, 400 La Crosse, Street, and will be on display through June 2019.

 

Woven Together by Arts
Pump House and the School District of La Crosse present a 5th annual collaboration, held annually in conjunction with Artspire. This year our students did a ribbon and fabric weaving project. The message: Our community is woven together through art, and art is the fiber of being. The project will be on display in the pedestrian walkway just east of the Pump House.

 

Chalkfest 2018
La Crosse Arts Initiative’s Street Chalk Competition. Cash prizes are awarded and registration is free and open to the public. Contact Mike Martino at martinosculpture@gmail.com. Winners announced at 3:15 pm on the Brickl Bros Stage.

Herons of La Crosse
In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Herons of La Crosse project, Pump House, Downtown Mainstreet and Explore La Crosse have brought back the flock! Visit the Herons on your way to the Artspire grounds at the Main Street Plaza, on the corner of Second and Main Streets. Take a picture with any of the herons and post to Facebook using #HeronsofLaCrosse. The herons will remain on display through the summer.