smARTpower Program

12/21/2012

To see great video shorts of our past smARTpower's projects visit our vimeo page:

http://vimeo.com/smartpowerdoc

smARTpower builds on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's vision of "smart power" diplomacy, which embraces the use of a full range of diplomatic tools…

12/21/2012

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…

11/09/2012

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...

11/08/2012

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...

11/08/2012

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...

11/08/2012

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.

10/16/2012

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/

09/17/2012

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.

06/05/2012

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