smARTpower (sm) , an initiative of the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Af
smARTpower (sm) , an initiative of the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, administered by The Bronx Museum of the Arts, will send fifteen U.S. artists abroad to work with local artists and young people for periods of up to 45 days to create community-based art projects. Selected artists will design and implement projects within a 45-day period in cooperation with loc
al arts organizations in China, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kosovo, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Venezuela. smARTpower projects, which can include painting, sculpture, video, installation, photo-based work, public art, and interdisciplinary projects, are strongly encouraged to create a tangible and lasting legacy that will remain in country. Projects will emphasize community engagement and participation. Artists will address a full range of relevant subjects including, but not limited to, women's empowerment, the environment, health, education, and civic engagement.
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To see great video shorts of our past smARTpower's projects visit our vimeo page:
http://vimeo.com/smartpowerdoc
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Check out our short video of Miguel Luciano's Peace Kites Project in Kenya this past March. Please, take a moment and watch our recent videos on our vimeo page.
smARTpower Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Smart Power
Miguel Luciano worked with Kenyan youth doing a large-scale kite project modeled on a similar project that he carried out in Vieques in 2002. About a hundred participants…
Great documentation of Art Jones' project!!!!!
http://artists.smartpower.bronxmuseum.org/artists/photos/14
Art Jones proposes a series of workshops and demonstrations that will culminate in the creation of mobile sound/video systems using popular music and video, with images and sounds gathered in tandem with creative peers in Pakistan. He will engage artists working in diverse media (from painting and s...
Congratulations to our artist Mary Mattingly on another successful project!
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/mattingly-wearable-portable-architecture-040350950.html
Last year, Brooklyn-resident Marry Mattingly was among 15 American artists (out of 900 applicants) who were chosen by the Bronx Museum of the Arts to undertake 45-day of creative-community projects in 15 countries such as China, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, P...
For more information about Mary Mattingly's project visit here:
http://papayapost.blogspot.com/
Green Papaya Art Projects is an independent initiative that supports and organizes actions and propositions that explore tactical approaches to the production, dissemination, research and presentation of contemporary practices in varied artistic and scholarly fields. It endeavors to provide a platfo...
Check out our smARTpower Program artist Mary Mattingly's project in Philippines!
Our country has been beset by natural calamities year after year. On the average, 20 tropical cyclones visit the archipelago yearly.
Wearable/Portable Architecture
A WORKSHOP BY MARY MATTINGLY
1-5pm, October 6, 7, 13 and 14, 2012
Green Papaya Art Projects
41B T.Gener St., Kamuning, Quezon City
Mary Mattingly’s Manila project for the US State Department’s smARTpowerTM program in the Phillippines opens October 6 at Green Papaya Art Projects in Quezon City.
The first in a series of workshops will kick-off with dialogues and open forum on climate change, disaster risk management, and portable architecture with invited resource persons Paulo Alcazaren, architect and editor-in-chief of BluPrint Magazine, and Ross Arayata, UP Mountaineer and environmentalist. The last workshop on October 14 will see the installation of selected workshop outputs in designated public sites within the Kamuning district.
Attendance to the workshops is limited to official participants. Observers are welcome on a pre-arranged basis.
For inquiries text/call smARTpowerTM Manila Team LIAN LADIA +63999 3811217 or MERV ESPINA +63921 6653943 or email [email protected]
Fo more information about smARTpower and Mary Mattingly you may log on to www.greenpapayaartprojects.org and www.bronxmuseum.org/
Check out artist resident Xaviera Simmons in Sri Lanka:
http://www.theertha.org/international-art-program/artist/artist-in-residence-xeviara-simmons-form-new-york-2012/?searchterm=xaviera%20simmons
Pricipal funders: HIVOS | FORD Foundation | Stichting DOEN Foundation (See info on artscollaboratory) | FLICT | Hosting provider: NIDELVEN IT.
Check out the photos of Seth Augustine and Rachel Shachar's project in progress on our blog!
http://artists.smartpower.bronxmuseum.org/artists/photos/7
Check out the video of the race organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts smARTpower Program's artist Duke Riley
THE HORSE DECLARED THE WINNER OF THE REMATCH IN ZHUJIAJIAO, CHINA
http://artists.smartpower.bronxmuseum.org/artists/videos/13
For smARTpower, Duke Riley will restage in Shanghai the legendary swimming race that determined the sequential order in which the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac appear; all of the zodiac animals will be represented by live animals (minus the Dragon), which will be ferried separately across the...
It's On!!! Duke Riley’s Rematch, a river race between the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. http://t.co/ntQELPm9
Duke Riley is a fine artist, and tattooist from Boston, MA who now resides in New York City.
Check out The Bronx Museum of the Arts' smARTpower Program artist Duke Riley working in Shanghai!
https://picasaweb.google.com/102897992339585463335/DukeRiley?authuser=0&feat=directlink
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U.S. Artist Pepón Osorio in Nepal
Philadelphia-based artist Pepón Osorio is in Nepal with the Department of State’s smARTpower program and works with Kathmandu University School of Art students at his Patan Museum studio. But last week, Pepón and the Embassy’s Cultural Affairs team went to Chitwan to meet local artists and host workshops with secondary students. They also found time to go on an elephant safari in Chitwan National Park!
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