main gfx: THE HOLY SPIRIT SERIES
- full stage
Our Ginghamsburg Makeover Team set out to design a stage to provide an engaging backdrop for our seven-week series on the Holy Spirit. Inspired by a Columbus, Ohio Anthropologie storefront, our key resources were smashed aluminum cans (clean!) and paper pendant lights from IKEA. With weedcloth as a wall covering/backdrop – and following a sketch Kim provided – the team hammered hundreds of cans to the wall using small nails/brads. A sleeve of 1000 can lids (secured from our local Pepsi dealer) rounded out the design. Finally, ketchup bottles filled with paint allowed the team to “throw” painted accents over the lids, enhancing the feeling of movement.
We lit the stage walls with our standard, floor-mounted LEDs. The IKEA lights were hung from a suspended PVC grid and arranged in such a way as to mimic doves in flight across the stage. Total cost for materials and lights came in at $150. Special note: our church family LOVED this design.
- “nothing happens but first a dream…”
close-up on back stage wall
- worship area side wall close-ups
awesome idea Kim! Way to recycle in a very effective way. Very beautiful effect.
Kim, Did you lay the weedcloth down to paint it or was it hanging?
Hi Jodi, we did the ketchup-bottle throw painting after the weedcloth was hung. Originally I didn’t realize we’d need it but suspected that extra layer of lines might help integrate movement into the overall design, which it did. Happy designing 🙂
Hi Kim, We love your idea. Just a couple questions: What kind of paint did you use? We’re fearful of the paint running once we apply it. Maybe the landscaping fabric soaks it in fast?? How wide is your stage? Ours is about 40 feet and we’re trying to feel the flow on such a short width. Is the color of your wall the same as the rest of the worship center or is it black?
Thanks for your time and help. We’re so excited… hopefully ours will be done by March 22.
Jake, we applied the paint via the ketchup bottle method. It went directly onto the weedcloth and didn’t drip. It was a smallish amount and probably got somewhat absorbed by the cloth vs what a painted wall would soak in.
Our stage is probably closer to 60′ wide. The stage walls are actually off-white now, pretty much the same as the worship center walls. The weedcloth gave us a temporary black/brown stage, kind of an interesting and helpful change.
Please send me a photo of your stage. So exciting!