This project won a New Times Best of Phoenix award.

For the Tempe+ASU temporary public art project, I am playing with the conflation of these two forms of public media: What we are taught, how we learn things, and where we learn them. Comment card-style boxes were be placed around campus, collecting answers to the question:

What is the most important thing you've learned outside school?
I chose six of the most intriguing answers, and reproduced them on large chalkboards installed along Mill and Apache. The boards tread a fine line between the school-chalkboard realm and the city-street sign realm: The boards look like chalkboards with ridged aluminum frames, but the lettering is made from reflective vinyl, cut to imitate the handwriting styles from the comment cards. The signs are outside, but on the border between school and city. Six quick hints to help you on our way to wherever you happen to be heading.

The reverse of each board has an image that reflects the text on the front. This board reads "Don't eat tuna fish more than two times a week."

These two signs caused trouble: The Network sign was taken to be part of a controversial ad campaign by the ASU business school, and the "Always have at least five boyfriends" board was attacked by an irate woman who called the project "smut." I've set up a cafepress store where you can get your own smutty products.