Content Creation
Workshop/Production Assistant
The Detroit Pistons commissioned Steven and William to work with 400 people from 17 Detroit-based organizations to create an artwork for the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center. The colors and concentric shapes of the Pistons logo inspired the direction of the artwork. They incorporate tones of red and blue and also bring in teal, a nod to an earlier version of the Pistons jersey. Concentric shapes share the same center and the Ladds see the center, the core, of this artwork to be the Detroit community. The nine by nine foot artwork is comprised of thousands of hand-formed beads hand painted by the community. The community connects with these components and, together in the finished artwork, they symbolize the collective power and possibility of Detroit.