Tuesday Tech Talk: Exhibition + Q&A: The Intersection of Art & Industry - The N.E.M.S. Gears Project

Streaming ONLINE on YouTube: youtu.be/yfSfi5iHgSg

How did gears from the Boston Manufacturing Company, a pioneer in modern textile manufacturing in the 1800s, end up on the ruins of the Banning #2 Coal Mine in Western, Pennsylvania? At the heart of the story is the New England Mosaic Society. When NEMS learned that Rachel Sager had turned the walls of the shuttered coal mine into an outdoor mosaic museum, we wanted to participate in The Ruins Project. We mosaicked over 30 gears that will be installed this spring. Many of these gears were donated by the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation. Over 25 mosaic artists were involved.

In this webinar you’ll see how the artists were able to give new meaning and renewal to gears that fueled the Industrial Revolution. We’ll take you on a virtual tour of the gears. You’ll learn about the techniques and materials the artists used to mosaic the gears and why they wanted to participate in this historic project. How fitting is it that gears that ran Francis Cabot Lowell’s prototype for the first modern textile manufacturing system end up in a mosaic museum that pays homage to the coal miners who fueled the Industrial Revolution? This is truly the Intersection of Art & Industry.

Speakers: Rachel Sager, Mosaic Artist, Sager Mosaics and Owner and Curator of The Ruins Project Members of the New England Mosaic Society (NEMS): Amy Marks, Deb Aldo, Ann Thompson, Linda Cundiff Bob Perry, Executive Director of the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation