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"And then, all of a sudden... an art project...
HQ: My name is Heidi Quante and I primarily work in the realm of creative communication. For the last year-and-a-half, I worked with 350.org, the largest international grassroots climate change organization, to use creative communication to educate the public about the impacts and solutions to climate change and ideally to spark them into action.[[MORE]]
AR: Is art a particularly important tool...
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“Before [The Alley Project] there were many murders in a in a three-, four-month...”
– Dan Pitera, advisor to the TAP Gallery, Associate Professor of Architecture, Director of Detroit Collaborative Design Center
Check back soon to see an interview with founder Erik Howard and professor Dan Pitera as they give a walking tour of TAP.
June 2012
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April 2012
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March 2012
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"This fence was installed in case of riots...
Meet Partizaning, a website and public project seeking to create a new social art movement. On March 4th, they launched their English website (eng.partizaning.org) in Debalie, Amsterdam, during Welcome Back, Putin! – a festival showcasing Russia’s leading art activists.
Their projects have included:
Car Impounding: an event organized to kick start an automobile intervention in...
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"What appeals to me [about graffiti tagging and...
Daniel Bejar: My name is Daniel Bejar. I like to say my practice is interdisciplinary. I work with intervention, site specificity, sculpture, performance, and photography as a way to do a cultural critique. I’m interested in critiquing culture and appropriating more or less everything around us.
ArtRoots: What inspired you to work outside a gallery-museum context for Get Lost and...
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DIY Freehand Murals: Interview with artist and...
step 1: whitewashing the previous mural
ArtRoots: How do you plan a mural?
Remy Holwick: I plan in Photoshop— I shoot photo-reference for everything. I manipulate the photos into the composition by cropping, duplicating, and cloning. Then I grid the image out— usually into 1 foot squares. I don’t use pencil, but I do use a lot of sharpies doing the layout. If I’m...
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“You have to figure out a way to know what Abbie Hoffman did, which is to be...”
– Tibor Kalman. Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural, 1998.
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February 2012
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January 2012
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Mike Zuckerman: Working on Cité Soleil's Memorial...
Fresh off a plane, and back in San Francisco after a month in Port-au-Prince, Mike Zuckerman talked to me about how he organized a community around a memorial wall going up in Cité Soleil where he was an outsider, a blanc, and a foreigner.
Originally from Palo Alto, CA and raised in Long Island, Mike’s eclectic career (corporate world to green night clubs to photographer/community organizer) has...
November 2011
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This is how my political science thesis turned into a blog about public art.
I wanted to understand grassroots collaboration and change. Community organizing seemed like a good place to start, but a lot of what I read and saw was far from the work I wanted to research. Some authors and organizations were amazing, and they inform this project. But a lot of organizing literature talks about how...
