By Blake under Art,
The brilliance of what Robert Lundin and Irene O’Neill have fostered through The Awakenings Project is textured, yet refreshingly bright; controversial, yet simply empowering. These two activists in the arts community have designed and maintain an arts program in the village of Glen Ellyn, outside of Chicago, through which artists with mental illnesses are able to tap into their creativity.
By Blake under Art,
Photo with a Voice: TB PhotoVoice uses Living Exhibitions in a Project About Connecting.
In 2005, Romel Lacson, founder and director of TB PhotoVoice, put a face to tuberculosis. Two faces actually. First that of his prematurely born daughter, Emma, and then the face of his wife, Claudia, physician and tuberculosis advocate. Despite receiving the best medical care, both Claudia and Emma died from the complications of a disease that accounts for 1 in 4 preventable adult deaths, and kills three more people worldwide each minute. Unbelievably, given its tenacious hold on a giant slice of the world’s population, tuberculosis generates the merest sliver of international media.
By Blake under Art,
Babi Yar is the name of a ravine in the northwestern section of Kiev.
It was here that the Nazis shot the Jews. In small groups of ten, the Jews were taken along the edge of the ravine.
Once the Jews were lined up, the Nazis used a machine-gun to shoot them. When shot, they fell into the ravine. Then the next were brought along the edge and shot.
By Blake under Art,
Artist Lily Yeh describes herself as a spark maker. Barefoot Artists, the organization that Yeh founded in 2003, uses art to light the spark that leads to community empowerment around the world. But the spark is just the first step. In a February 15th interview, Yeh explained, “When you make a fire, you immediately share the warmth. Then you say, this is great, but how do we sustain this?”
By Blake under Art,
Starting in September of 1941, the Nazis marched 100,000 Jews to the edge of the Babi Yar Ravine in the Ukraine. There they stripped the townspeople, shot and pushed them in.
The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be “the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust”, yet most people are unaware of this genocide.
By Blake under Art,
Leilani Chan founded TeAda Productions in 1994 to provide an alternative space for artists whose visions fall outside the boundaries of traditional theatre. Over a decade later, Chan and her husband and collaborator Ova Saopeng have embarked on a movingly non-traditional project. Chan and Saopeng began developing Refugee Nation in 2005 to tell the stories of Laotian refugees who came to the United States following the Secret War in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s.
By Blake under Art,
This work is to be an installation based on photographs of trees destroyed by the war in Croatia, a barren landscape which cannot be entered because it is still infested with landmines. Drawing by Joan Skelton Smith
By Blake under Art,
Many thanks to Ms. Chloe Coburn Community Arts Co-ordinator. The entries from this class will continue to be posted this coming week. Our creative writing entry is by Neelam Solanki.
By Blake under Art,
Further entries from some of the very talented students. The creative writing entry is a poem from Nathan Gore, Aged 13 who writes
This is a twist on a ‘What Am I? / what is it?’ riddle, put into the context of a rhyme.
Thanks again to all the contestants.
By Blake under Art,
Motive has received so many wonderful entries we wish to show another example of some of the very talented students again from Mr. Clarke’s Falcon Junior School. The creative writing entry is a short story from Emma Powell, who writes about a young girl living in Kosovo.
Thanks to all the contestants.
By Blake under Art,
Here is another motive-art Fragments competition entry from the class of Mr. Clarke of Falcon Junior School. The competition is now closed and Motive-art judges have the difficult task of choosing the winners who will be announced on this website on January 31. Please visit the site often over the next several weeks to see more competition entries.
From the creative writing entries, Mashuda Khanom, has submitted a moving story of civilian life in a war torn land.
By Blake under Art,
The Motive-Art Fragments Competition has received hundreds of wonderful entries from students in the UK, many of which will be featured on the Motive site throughout this year. Ms. Michelle Miller from the Art Department at Soar Valley College, in Leicester, UK, submitted the entry above. The winners will be chosen later in the month and will be announced on the 31st of January 2008.
A poem by Demi Leigh Morrison is included in todays feature.
By Blake under Art,
This towering sculpture was built as a monument to peace by the Cambodian artists using thousands of de-commissioned weapons surrendered by the residents of Battambang Province, Cambodia.
We just want to remind everyone about our Art Contest that’s running in conjunction with No More Landmines. Read More for links to full details and the forums!
By under Art, Features, Exhibitions,
The Fragments Exhibition opened on Thursday, November 1 on No More Landmines day in the UK. The exhibition runs until the 17th of November in 5 Pall Mall at the prestigious Royal Opera Arcade just meters away from Trafalgar Square in central London.
By under Art, Exhibitions,
As the Fragments exhibition is set to open this week at the Royal Opera Arcade at Pall Mall, we’d like to share some photographs of Fragments, as the sculptures appeared at Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral, Kent.
By under Art, Exhibitions,
Shoreditch, London’s landmark venue The Foundry will host the Yo! show’s first appearance in the U.K.. Opening night is Tuesday, November 6, 2007 from 7pm to 11pm and admission is free.
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In just three weeks, Blake’s exhibition of Fragments will open at the Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London. We hope that you can attend this special exhibition.
By under Art, Exhibitions,
Cinema Verite, founded in May by Paris-based documentary film-maker Joel Soler, is hosting FOCUS 2007 this month in Monaco and Paris. The meetings will focus on the issue of landmines and cluster bombs, and will honour 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jody Williams.
Art for Refugees in Transition (ART) provides curriculum and training programs to engage both children and adults in refugee communities in visual, performing and creative arts drawn from their own cultures. These activities provide local and international relief institutions with tools to help refugee communities recover from the trauma, terror and dislocation of war.
The Times of India recently reported on a school in Bangalore that’s exclusively for street, working, and freed bonded labor children. Bornfree Art School International (BASI) has an objective to educate and develop children through the arts.
Watch this space for event updates and exhibition dates and venues.
19 May 2008 - 31 May 2008
Limited edition bronze sculpture by Blake offering tax deductible contributions to NO MORE LANDMINES in the UK and ADOPT-A-MINEFIELD in the USA
02 May 2008 - 02 May 2008
On the evening of May 2, 2008, the Auction Committee of GlobalMedic will hold its fundraising auction event to provide funds for future deployments. As GlobalMedic has no overhead, all funds raised will go straight to emergency programs. This is a call to all artists who are willing and able to donate their artwork to help make our banquet a success.
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