This is a post from Colin McDonald, longtime coworker and supporter of NWC.

Hello, New Work City and friends! I’m the guy who left three art works behind after my visit to Coworking After Hours this week. If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll stop by to see them soon (not to mention tweeting about them, but I’ll get to that in a second)!

The art is visiting NWC as part of the first project from Artloop (@artloop), an organization I started to increase the support and visibility of art education. The project offers student art in a variety of forms (from tote bags to originals) to our backers on Kickstarter (full details here), and we’re also working to introduce this work to creative, dynamic local communities that might initiate a new “loop” of art enjoyment and engagement. I couldn’t think of a better fit for this than NWC!

Artloop’s student work comes from our partnerships with two NYC public school art programs (the three pieces at NWC are from the Institute for Collaborative Education in the East Village). Because art is often left unclaimed at schools and then lost or thrown away, students and teachers have been open to giving small amounts of art to Artloop as a way to build support and get their work out into the city.

I’m excited to show students the pictures of their art in such a cool space. I thought it might also be fun to show how their art has connected with NWCers, so I couldn’t resist setting up a Twitter experiment (naturally). If you’re at NWC, you’ll notice that each of the three works has a small placard that lists a Twitter hashtag (#nwcart1, #nwcart2, #nwcart3). I’d love to collect your thoughts about the art works as their NWC residencies progress, including your best title ideas — none of the works we’ve collected have titles, and they deserve them!

Feel free to check out the three pieces below and leave titles/thoughts in the comments too:

#nwcart1

#nwcart2

#nwcart3

Don’t hesitate to email colin-at-artloop-dot-net or tweet @artloop with any questions or feedback. And if you’d like to support this and future Artloop projects, all while getting some cool art in return, I hope you’ll consider backing our Kickstarter project.

Thanks again to Tony and everyone for making this happen. I can’t wait to read your titles and musings!

- Colin, Artloop (@colinmcd / colinmcd.com)