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June 29, 2007 Another completely amazing art materialLinda Frye Burnham / 10:46 AM About a year ago we told you about a unique art material called PhotoCrete for making your own community monuments. We just found out about another one: Fence Fabric. It "was designed to put amazing fences within reach for everyone." You can make your fence (or anything else) look like a stone wall, a herd of cattle, the ocean and lots of other images. Or you can design your own fabric. Check it out:
June 27, 2007 A place for dance reviewsLinda Frye Burnham / 12:22 PM There's a new service on the Web: World Dance Reviews. It's a participatory effort out of Colorado that publishes original dance reviews from all over the world. You yourself may qualify as a reviewer.
June 26, 2007 The Found Object Project is looking for youLinda Frye Burnham / 02:52 PM Forwarded from Paul Camic, now at Canterbury Christ Church University in England: The Found Object Project (FOP) is seeking volunteers for a research project about people and their relationship to second-hand and "found objects". People have been obtaining and using second-hand objects for thousands of years. These objects have different meanings and usages for the people who obtain them. While some think of these objects as cast-offs, junk or rubbish, others place a different value on them. FOP is hoping to better understand how and why people use these objects. We would like to invite you to participate by completing a questionnaire. This project is sponsored by the Cultural Re-use Research Collaborative http://www.culturalreuse.org/ and involves participants in Europe and North America. If you would like more information please e-mail Dr. Paul Camic at paul.camic@canterbury.ac.uk.
Collective art project in the Czech Republic Linda Frye Burnham / 02:44 PM Forwarded from artist Kirsimaria E. Törönen-Ripatti: Collective art project BAGDAD BURNING The drawings can be sent by email. All drawings will be added onto the installation. The drawings are requested to be standard A4 size and preferably black and white. The drawings will not be returned. Kirsimaria E. Törönen-Ripatti is a visual artist. She is the Chairman of the regional arts council of South Savo in Eastern Finland and a member of the National Arts Council of Finland.
June 19, 2007 Laura Wiley passesLinda Frye Burnham / 10:21 AM Sad news from Albany Park Theatre Project, an ensemble of teenagers creating original theater out of the real-life stories of the Albany Park community in Chicago: We are writing to share with you the news that Laura Wiley, co-founder and co-director of Albany Park Theater Project, died June 18, of ovarian cancer, which she had fought since her diagnosis four years ago. Laura continued to lead APTP while undergoing cancer treatment. During that time, Laura created and directed three original productions at APTP, led our college counseling program and mentored dozens of teen artists.Sincerely, Albany Park Theater Project Board Members,
June 14, 2007 An easy request from S.F.Linda Frye Burnham / 03:57 PM Forwarded from Judth Tannenbaum in the S.F. Bay Area: Dear Friends, Family and Colleagues:
June 12, 2007 We're all urban nowLinda Frye Burnham / 01:27 PM Since everything is connected, we're sure this must have something to do with community arts : ) .... May 22, 2007 Mayday 23: World Population Becomes More Urban Than Rural There’s no big countdown billboard or sign in Times Square to denote it, but Wednesday, May 23, 2007, represents a major demographic shift, according to scientists from North Carolina State University and the University of Georgia: For the first time in human history, the earth’s population will be more urban than rural. ... http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/2007/may/104.html
Word from Melanie Ohm in Arizona Linda Frye Burnham / 10:57 AM Forwarded (with permission) from Melanie Ohm, founder of the now defunct Arizona State University Herberger College Partnerships office: June 11, 2007 Dear Linda, Among the buzy-nesses of life these days have been the essential tasks of getting TWO businesses up and running: the visioning, the marketing, the websites, setting up all of the procedures…my life path has well-prepared me for this day, however. I have two partners in Concepts Consulting Group, Inc. to feed my need for collaboration. We are doing organizational and community development work with educational institutions and the social sector.
June 11, 2007 SEEDS on Vashon IslandLinda Frye Burnham / 03:17 PM Artist Beverly Naidus is a founding faculty member of the new Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS) on Vashon Island, Wash. It's an environmental education project that links understanding social and environmental problems with "a radical and comprehensive vision of their potential resolution within a truly ecological society. August 2007 offerings include, among other topics, "Art & Community," August 5, with Naidus, Bob Spivey and Bill Moyer, a workshop introducing eco-art and art and culture work strategies for empowering communities. (Details: call 209-949-9786.) SEEDS is a project of the Institute for Social Ecology, which currently offers a Master of Arts Program in Social Ecology through an affiliation with Prescott College in Arizona. http://www.socialecologyvashon.org
The Dark Madonna and landscape design Linda Frye Burnham / 11:52 AM Focusing on different aspects of artist Suzanne Lacy's 1986 performance project "The Dark Madonna" can be instructive to landscape-design practice, says Sharon Irish in Landscape Journal (Volume 26, Number 1, March 2007). Drawing on archival sources and interviews with participants and organizers, this article uses scholarship from cultural geography and critical whiteness, gender and performance studies to assess Lacy's "Dark Madonna," an evening performance that took place in the Franklin Murphy Sculpture Garden at UCLA and included two living tableaux with sound. Irish says it can be "instructive in several ways: investigating how Lacy's intervention in the mid-sixties modernist design of the UCLA sculpture garden provided a counterpoint to the implicit assumptions of the garden; explicating ways in which performance can inform landscape architecture; and adapting community cultural development strategies that Lacy formulated." The article is available online from Ingenta for $15: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/wisc/lj/ 2007/00000026/00000001/art00009.
June 04, 2007 Global Peace IndexLinda Frye Burnham / 04:44 PM Forwarded from Craig Zelizer, Georgetown University The Global Peace Index is a ground-breaking milestone in the study of peace. It is the first time that an Index has been created that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identified some of the drivers of that peace. 121 countries have been ranked by their ‘absence of violence’, using metrics that combine both internal and external factors. Most people understand the absence of violence as an indicator of peace. This definition also allows for the measuring of peacefulness within, as well as between, nations. Peace is a powerful concept. However, the notion of peace, and its value in the world economy, is poorly understood. Historically, peace has been seen as something won in war, or else as an altruistic ideal. There are competing definitions of peace, and most research into peace is, in fact, the study of violent conflict. Vision of Humanity contains the results from the Global Peace Index and other material of interest on peace. It also contains a section on institutions that need help to fund peace-related initiatives. Over time this source will be updated to combine more relevant material that will demonstrate the linkages between peace and sustainability. http://www.visionofhumanity.com/index.php
June 01, 2007 E.P.A at Exit ArtLinda Frye Burnham / 02:46 PM A message from New York's Exit Art: E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions) Opening Fall 2007
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