Motiv - Art for good

Amnesty International media awards

By Blake under Features,

BY MICHAEL LITHGOW.............................Photo: Tiziana Savinelli
The winners of Amnesty International’s 17th annual Media Awards have been announced. The awards were created to recognize excellence in human rights reporting and to acknowledge journalism’s contribution to raising awareness and understanding about human rights issues. It’s not exactly art in the traditional sense, but there is the ‘art of fact’, so to speak,

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Let Art Talk

By Blake under Features,

Let Art Talk was launched in 2007 as an innovative and unique way to address important issues facing Uganda and the global community. Communicating social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges becomes less intimidating through the medium of art.

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sketch (sk-eh-t-ch) – a way of thinking

By Blake under Features,

sketch (sk-eh-t-ch) – a way of thinking, being and trusting, a way of healing and hoping, a way of seeing beauty and adventure, in ourselves, in each other and in the world

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The US Declines to Sign the Ban of Cluster Bombs

By Blake under Features,

More than 100 nations, including the UK, have signed a treaty to ban current designs of cluster bombs. The United States declines to endorse the ban.

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Louis Vuitton Sues Artist

By Blake under Features,

In tragic case of bad taste Louis Vuitton has started a legal suite against an artist for printing an image of an African child holding a designer bag. Nadia Plesner, the artist involved, began a campaign to raise awareness of the recent problems in Darfur and to try to raise money for the victims. She has pledged the profits from the sales of items designed to bring public attention to the crisis in Darfur to the “Divest for Darfur” organization to help the victims.

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New Orleans Artists go YA/YA

By Blake under Features,

By Blythe Landry
In good folk art, in New Orleans form, YA/YA promotes an eclecticism to visual art that includes specialties such as Artpentry (funky, for sale furniture with a face, a color, and attitude), Inner-City Threads (quilting, screen printing, hand and machine sewing, etc. in order to create wearable, or functional art) and Print YA/YA.
Unlike some social service agencies with creative underpinnings, however, YA/YA also emphasized the real-world necessity of entrepreneurial skills in order to advocate for oneself and to establish a thriving practice. Business and financial training is also a component of this work. In other words, YA/YA is giving realistic success-options to kids’ and young adults’ dreams.

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Global Medic's Auction in Toronto

By Blake under Features,

The David McAntony Gibson Foundation is a Canadian non profit organization based in Toronto entirely based on volunteers. In January 2008, a team of GlobalMedic’s Rapid Response Team was deployed to Vietnam, where each year there are 2000 casualties due to UXOs (Unexploded Ordnances). In the province of Quang Tri alone, there is an estimated 500,000 tons of UXO and mines. Across the country, the thousands of amputees that reside there are a constant reminder of a war that ended decades ago, but can be seen to live on through these lethal sub-surface hazards.

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Support the Global Medics Auction

By Blake under Features,

History of Global Medics
Rahul Singh started his own charity in 1997 after his best friend, David Gibson, passed away from liver disease, leaving behind a not only a newlywed wife, but a legacy caring and compassion. He named the charity the David McAnthony Gibson Foundation, and dedicated it towards helping those in need around the world, by providing relief supplies and equipment to disaster zones — both natural and man-made.

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Global Medic Fund Raising Gala

By Blake under Features,

Glabal Medic at work in Mexico providing relief from the recent flooding.
The sole purpose of the foundation is to help people in developing countries specifically in the field of emergency medicine and relief issues.

Please help GlobalMedic continue the remarkable work that they do.

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Vienna Conference to Ban Cluster Muitions

By Blake under Features,

A de-commissioned Cluster Bomblet.
Over 130 countries met in Vienna this week to continue the effort to ban cluster munitions.

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MOTIVE Art Contest

By Blake under Art, Features,

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!

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No Strings

By Blake under New Artists, Features,

While MOTIVE has worked with artists and charities to help remove landmines and make the world a safer place for those victimized by war, we also want to help make the world a better and safer place for generations to come. A team of talented artists and performers known as No Strings is working globally to do just that.

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Photos from the London Exhibition

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.

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Blake's Fragments in London

By under Features, Exhibitions,

Opening today, and running through the 17th of November, Blake’s Fragments collection is now being exhibited in London, at the Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall. We hope that you can attend this special exhibition.

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Fragments Introduced in Monaco

By under Features, Exhibitions,

The Fragments exhibition by Blake is coming to London and was launched in Monte Carlo last week on October 10 by actress Sharon Stone, activist-judge Carla Del Ponte, and Nobel peace prize winner Jody Williams.

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Fragments at the Royal Opera Arcade

By under Art, Features, Exhibitions, Charities,

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.

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Bornfree Art School International

By under Art, Features,

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.

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Motive Competition

By Motive Art Staff under Features,

Motive, in partnership with No More Landmines, and in support of No More Landmines Day is proud to launch a new art contest.

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What's our Motive?

By under Features,

We often get asked about the philosophy behind MOTIVE – what idea sparked the creation of a movement that seeks to do good in the world through art? How can the creation and appreciation of art be linked to the idea of supporting charities and making the world a better place.

Well, we’ve started a discussion in our Forums about this, and a recent comment by Blake puts it pretty succinctly.

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