Betsy Medvedovsky & Steve Campos: Pop-Up Museum

March 12, April 9, May 14 & June 11, 2016

Pop-Up Museum Pasadena was a set of temporary installations that explored what the city of Pasadena meant to its residents and visitors. The installations consisted of four exhibits themed: origins, time, conflict, and family. The museum invited locals to contribute to the Pop-Ups by bringing on-topic objects with explanations on exhibit labels. 

Participants were invited to stay for the duration of the exhibit, encouraging discussion, storytelling, and narratives to emerge. 

The Pop-Up museum model is an alternative museum form that has recently been developed by artists, activists, and educators. It seeks to turn the traditional museum on its head by letting the public become active makers of the museum. 

BIO

Steve Campos

Steve Campos is a Los Angeles-based welder who’s interested in designing and fabricating creative ironwork for houses and commercial properties. A second-generation welder, Steve grew up around his father’s shop in the backyard and has long been intrigued by both the functional and the artistic process of ironwork. For the past 6 years, he’s had the chance to work with Brett Goldstone, a local artist who specializes in artistic gates, as well as James Naish. As an avid cyclist and bike polo player, Steve is also interested in repurposing junked bike parts to create new, functional pieces and incorporating bicycles into doors, gates, handrails, and fences.

Betsy Medvedovsky

Betsy Medvedovsky was born in Moscow, Russia. She has a BA in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute. In a prior life, she studied linguistics in Chicago, obsessively photographed public housing in Berlin, loafed in Boston, and made art about abandoned railroad tracks in Atlanta. Now in New York, she's excited by any project that relies on urban exploration as a design method.