Re-imagining Kids' Drawings By Garrett Miller

That was the case with my own boys, who after seeing Garrett’s handiwork, spent the afternoon improving their original images. My youngest, who had submitted a rough version of a well-fortified hideaway, laughed with delight at the detail he found. His next effort at drawing tried to emulate this detail, as well as making an effort at shading for a three-dimensional effect. The work of my eldest was much more detailed already. His takeaway was how powerful it can be to simplifying the visual message. In both cases, Imaginawesome sparked further interest in art.
“I’m not treating Imaginawesome as art,” explains Miller. “It’s a conversation.”
Miller has some experience with crowd-sourced art. Along with a classmate at Oberlin, he ran the Envelope Collective, a collaborative experiment that used the transportation of mail as a medium. Over the two-year run, the project went from about 4 pieces a week to 15 a day. Even that project had some kid participation.