The spirit of Wacom was alive and present at the 2024 Pickathon Experiential Art and Music Festival!
Pickathon has been running since 1999 and has grown and evolved as the years go by. The Wacom Core Community Engagement team was looped into the 2024 festivities by our good friend, and globally renowned artist, Nicolas Barrome Forgues, also known as Nico. Nico concepted, designed, and helped fabricate the ‘Grove Neighborhood’ stage at Pickathon, which included his trademark ‘mischievous creatures’, which appeared larger than life and welcomed over 4,000 attendees to the Grove Stage.
Adjacent to the stage was the ‘Grove Lounge’. Which is where attendees of all ages were introduced to the ‘Wacom Drawing Circle’ – a cool place to chill, take a breath between bands, and draw your dreams, experiences, and feelings.
Staying true to the mission of the Core Community Engagement team, we not only made meaningful connections with our extended community of emerging artists (and plenty of professionals). We also brought along some Wacom Employees to help support the drawing station and engage with the creative community.
We are preparing discussions with the Pickathon nonprofit for deeper involvement next year, which will include collaborations with the PSU (Portland State University) Architecture Grad Program, as well as the OSU (Oregon State University) Architecture program.
I want to give a huge shout-out to colleagues Caylie Seeger, Tina Eddy, and Gray Whelan (and his lovely wife Lynn) for supporting the team and helping make our first year at Pickathon a success.
