This week's roundup includes a wine cork mural in Park City, Utah; newspaper flowers in Washington; a hanging dessert buffet in Bethesda, Maryland; and an augmented-reality mural in New York.
Throughout the festival, sponsor Francis Ford Coppola Winery hosted parties and activations, including a custom oversize wine cork mural at the Sundance Co-Op. The winery commissioned artist Scott Gundersen to create the mural—titled "The Big Picture"—through the duration of the event. Attendees also were able to contribute to the installation.
To promote its upcoming Marvel TV series Legion, FX hosted an immersive art exhibit at Villain in Brooklyn from January 27 to 29. The show's key art mural, which was created by David Flores, incorporated augmented reality by inviting attendees to download the Blippar app on their smartphones, then aim it at the mural and watch the art come to life.
Another installation was a forced-perspective art piece created by Michael Murphy. Titled "Suspension of Disbelief," the installation was created by hanging a variety of household items strategically to spell out the title of the series. Attendees could stand on a floor marker to see the materials align perfectly to spell out the title in FX's style.
Washington Business Journal hosted its annual Book of Lists Party on January 26 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Floral designer Philippa Tarrant crafted paper flowers out of old editions of the publication.
The YoungArts Foundation's annual gala took place January 14 at the organization's campus in Miami. The event, which was produced by Wow Factor Marketing Group, had an origami theme with decor including a ceiling installation featuring suspended paper butterflies.
A New York-theme bar mitzvah planned by Party Perfect took place at AMP by Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland, in January. The event featured a suspended hanging dessert buffet from a faux tree designed by Design Foundry. Ridgewells catered the event.
The event also included a faux food truck that served poke bowls and shrimp chips. AJ Strasser from Sculptural Solutions provided the New York-theme decor.
The 33rd edition of the Sundance Film Festival took place January 19 to 29 in Park City, Utah. Festival sponsor Acura hosted its Festival Village, which showcased the 2017 Acura NSX in a variety of ways—including a full-size ice sculpture embedded with LED lighting to highlight features of the model's Sport Hybrid SH-AWD technology.
People magazine and the Entertainment Industry Foundation hosted its Screen Actors Guild Awards Gala on January 29 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The event, which had a Parisian street theme, featured façades meant to evoke Parisian storefronts.
Daybreaker recently hosted a morning dance party at Folsom Street Foundry in San Francisco. Symmetry Labs created the custom dance floor, as well as an LED-powered sun that "rose" throughout the early-morning event.
