Museum of Block Art Calls for Submissions Celebrating WordPress’ 20th Anniversary
The Museum of Block Art (MOBA), a project launched in 2022 featuring art created using the block editor’s design tools, is calling for submissions celebrating WordPress’ upcoming 20th anniversary. In a short amount of time, the museum has collected more than three dozen works of block art, creative pieces that leave the viewer wondering how they were made using only WordPress’ core design tools. The MOBA features a diverse set of works – from a Mario mosaic made entirely of differently colored Button and Group blocks, to a textured gallery of city images melded together using the Columns, Cover, and Gallery blocks. All pieces are displayed with the HTML markup of the block(s) beneath, so curious viewers can dig into the details of which tools design tools have been applied. MOBA’s curators are challenging artists to submit WP20 blocks inspired by the 20th anniversary logos and/or the color palette and images from the default themes through the years. These blocks will become part of the art history of WordPress’ capabilities. MOBA founder Anne McCarthy said the submissions have “definitely evolved as the controls have grown since each new control added has a cascading creative impact.” To better illustrate this evolution,…
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