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Artist Statement: I am an artist/activist...or is it activist/artist? It's impossible to put one before the other or separate them. The work on this website represents artwork which I have created, sometimes on my own and sometimes in relationship with organizations, communities and organizers. I believe that art can contribute to changing people's perceptions, hearts and understandings of what has been, what is...
Richmond,
VA
Artist Statement: Here in Richmond,Virginia, we have been at the forefront of social change for hundreds of years-both for good and bad. My sculpture has always been more closely associated with nature; but during this past summer's protests for social equality, I felt inspired to create a series dedicated to the movement. Ripping down the Jim Crow monuments, and reclaiming the green spaces they occupied to honor...
Artist Statement: Rick Lowe is the founder of Project Row Houses, an arts and cultural community located in a historically significant and culturally charged neighborhood in Houston, Texas. Rick has participated in exhibitions and programs nationally and internationally. From 1992 to the present, he has exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum, Contemporary arts Museum, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles...
Artist Statement: RJ Thompson is a practicing graphic designer, graphic design educator, and entrepreneur currently teaching graphic, web, and interactive design in the Department of Art at Youngstown State University. His current research interests primarily focus on economic and community development through investment in design entrepreneurship, and creating brand identities for cities, neighborhoods, and more.
Artist Statement: Ronit Bezalel has been producing and directing films since 1990. Her films cover a wide range of topics, from the dismantling of Public Housing to Professional Women’s Tackle Football (co-directed with Laurie Little and Sree Nallamothu). Her documentaries have been broadcast internationally, played in festivals, and used as a teaching tool in educational institutions worldwide. Ronit Bezalel,...
Artist Statement: ARTIST • MOTHER • COMMUNITY ACTIVIST Raised in VENICE, CA. I’m on a path that I never expected. Starting out as an oil painter that led to filmmaking, creating multi-media installations that include audio, social media, video, public art, and social engagement. My focus is on positive social change, working with concepts that reflect identity and the value of people.
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Artist Sandy Brooks – Original Wildlife and Nature Art in Pencil and Pastel
Capturing the Wonder of Wildlife, Celebrating the Joy of Childhood
Children and animals possess an inner spark that too often fades for many of us in adulthood. Peering into their eyes, you see not the harsh, complicated world reflected back at you, but the essence of innocence and unlimited possibility that radiates...
Artist Statement: Sara Trail dedicates her art practice to social justice reform and created SJSA in efforts to engage students and activists across the United States who share a common vision of equity and justice. She uses art as a vehicle for motivation and awareness while providing people a platform to create activist art through fabric textiles. She encourages people to become artivists [art + activist] and...
Artist Statement: Sarah Browning is Director of Split This Rock and DC Poets Against the War, author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007), and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology (Argonne House Press, 2004). The recipient of an artist fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, she has also received a Creative Communities Initiative grant and the People...
Artist Statement: Sarah Doherty is an artist whose work explores the intersections of art, architecture, urban spaces and technology through installation art and urban intervention projects. Installation works have combined sculptural materials, with video, computer controlled media and light to explore experiential and participatory art. Her urban interventions explore the intersections of creative agency and...
Artist Statement: Scott Stulen grew up in west central Minnesota in the 1980’s and has an inappropriately positive view of late seventies design. He (non-ironically) loves Neil Diamond, chainsaw art, pastel polyester baseball jerseys, romantic landscape painters and western shirts from Fleet Farm. His paintings and sculptures explores false constructions of personal and collective memory, failure, loss, and...
Artist Statement: Seth is the leader, clarinetist, and composer for The Alexandria Kleztet, a genre-bending klezmer band he founded in the Baltimore/Washington area. The band's four albums, Peace, Love and Coffee (2009), Close Enough for Klezmer (2005), Delusions of Klezmer (2002) and Y2Klezmer (1999) are all available nationwide. All four recordings received the Washington Area Music Association's (WAMA) award...
Artist Statement: Filmmaker, educator, and activist Shalini Kantayya uses film/video as a tool to educate, inspire, and empower audiences. Shalini finished in the top 10 out of 12,000 filmmakers on FOX’s ON THE LOT, a show by Steven Spielberg search of Hollywood’s next great director. A William D. Fulbright Scholar in documentary, her film The Churning received the award for best documentary at the Asian American...
Artist Statement: Shana R. Goetsch's art frequently involves themes of social justice, empowerment, love, loss and bereavement; she began painting in 1989 after witnessing the murder of her mother. Often using words, cultural references or found objects, she injects personal voice, history and memory into her pieces. Goetsch's work has appeared in numerous exhibitions throughout Wisconsin, Virginia, Maryland,...
Artist Statement: As I grew as a designer, I saw the social implications of the work that I was doing and decided to pursue it further. Design can impact people and societies, and it carries a lot of weight. That is why I am getting my MA in Social Design, where I practice human-centered design and community-involved collaboration.
I come from Steelerstown, but no less love for Ravensville. =)
Artist Statement: Sheelagh Colclough is a multidisciplinary artist who has been working in the arts in Northern Ireland for over 14 years. Her art has propelled her into a number of roles including facilitating, devising and coordinating participatory art projects, exhibiting, researching, delivering training, and producing commissioned artwork and installations. Her projects include “Evaluate!,” an interactive...
Artist Statement: My art crosses boundaries from installations and performance arts to documentary to poetry. My work responds to issues of human rights, police brutality, embodiment (art healing), health disparities, biomedicine, medical deportation, climate change and the immigration detention deportation apparatus. My interest on the arts allow mw to expand the dialogue and awareness about social transformation...
Artist Statement: Sue Coe’s paintings and drawings have staked a claim for art as a form of investigative journalism. They expose inequities and gross crimes to harsh light, prodding the viewers into fighting for change. Eschewing abstract style and ambivalent content, Coe makes immediate art that communicates hidden activities in blunt terms. Coe produces high-contrast figurative work with a style that could be...
Baltimore,
MD
Artist Statement: Wide Angle Youth Media is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides Baltimore youth with media education to tell their own stories and become engaged with their communities. Through quality after-school programming, in-school opportunities, summer workshops, community events, and an annual Youth Media Festival, Wide Angle supports young people making a difference through media.
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