Sentences with phrase «through cultural projects»
Situated in City and Suburban — a mostly distressed inner city district where exclusion from economic advancement is palpable — Arts on Main is an award - winning development that has uplifted the area through cultural projects and spaces.
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Pokemon Go, released last week, has quickly become a cultural phenomenon, with people wandering through every major city peering into their smartphones to catch virtual monsters projected onto the real world through their camera apps.
This could be through culinary innovation, a commitment to social responsibility, sustainability or the economic development of their community; involvement in health or environmental campaigns, the promotion of pioneering cultural projects, or works that benefit society through their positive impact on the food industry.
The Uptown Print Project was created to provide a cultural resource for the diverse Washington Heights and Inwood communities of Upper Manhattan through a month - long series of printmaking activities, ending on Jun. 27th...
Through a variety of media, recipients from different locales around the world exchange social and cultural information, and share ideas and progress related to respective projects.
A grisly critique of representations of violence, the original version shot a hole right through the fourth wall, but Haneke's echo — which re-uses the same locations and stresses its own pointlessness at every turn — transforms his cultural commentary into an endless hall of mirrors, completing the project by repeating it.
Whenever the Board of Directors of SKS Netherlands (Stichting Kebon Sepatu NL) presents her activities to the relevant International communities like the Indonesian Embassy in the Netherlands to raise awareness in relation to socio - cultural and educational issues, we stress the uniqueness of having such a large group of volunteers realising projects through a «long - distance relationship».
The values of ecosystem services that are created through REF's restoration projects include Provisioning, Regulating, Habitat and Supporting, and Cultural.
Follow the social media hashtag #GlobalEd to pick up collaborative projects that promote cultural awareness and connections through technology.
One of the best ways to develop cultural literacy and help our students understand these goals is through social justice processes and projects, activities that develop a mindset of concern for our society's inequity in wealth, education, and privilege.
Through a project called KnowGlobe, they regularly talk with students on other continents, learning in the process about time zones, cultural differences, global weather patterns, and the state of education worldwide.
2003 — CEI - PEA launched Project BOOST to provide academic, social and cultural enrichment to under - achieving fourth through eighth - grade students with the ultimate goal of helping them gain admission to quality high schools.
The Global Oneness Project brings the world to the classroom through free multicultural stories and accompanying lesson plans to explore cultural, social, and environmental issues through a humanistic lens.
«Through our cultural work as the German Book Office, our New York office has years of experience bringing together publishers from different countries and helping them forge new connections,» said Riky Stock, in charge of cultural projects at the Frankfurter Buchmesse New York.
About Project - H Project - H is one of the industry's most unconventional and innovative companies, specializing in building corporate and cultural bridges from Japan to the Western Hemisphere — specifically through the licensing, importation and preparation of anime (Japanese animation), manga (Japanese comic books) and related merchandise for the North American mainstream and subculture markets.
Significant Otherness, a benefit for the Spay Neuter Project of Los Angeles (SNPLA), explores the unique bond between animals and humans through artwork generously donated by eight contemporary artists for a gallery exhibition at Angels Gate Cultural Center and available for sale in this online auction.
A legacy of one of the greening projects from 2010, the Green Hub is the head office of The Durban Green Corridor, a project that aims to «bring local people back in touch with nature through eco-tourism and adventure sports» — canoeing, hiking, mountain biking, bird watching and cultural tours.
Discover the newly established Mackay Region Botanical Gardens, observe the fascinating and rare flora of the Central Queensland Coast bio-region, wander through its cultural precincts and learn about local history and exciting projects on the horizon for the gardens.
• Rehabilitation - Large Category This category recognizes projects that make possible the continued historic use, or a compatible new use, through repair, alterations and additions, while preserving those portions or features which convey a site or structure s historical, cultural or architectural values.
Claire came to the field of landscape architecture to integrate dynamic ecological and cultural processes throughout a project's lifecycle, from the initial vision and design, through public engagement, construction detailing, and ongoing maintenance and stewardship.
Costa Rica Explorations provides teen students an authentic opportunity to study abroad in Costa Rica and engage in cultural immersion through homestays, community service projects and adventure travel learning.
Other projects have embedded the significance of «home - making» to query the societal through the domestic, including our award winning FreeSpace projects 2008 - 2016, co-creating public spaces, gardens and performances with mixed cultural residents on a London Estate.
In 2009, Hamilton founded Gris Gris Lab, as a place based incubator and cultural exchange space to ensure that emerging thought - leaders could actualize their interdisciplinary projects through an innovative live - work model in Central City, New Orleans.
Hunger As A Teacher is part of Caroline Caycedo's project Be Dammed, 2010 — , which addresses the privatization of waterways through the construction of dams, and the environmental and cultural effects of extractivism.
ISSUE Project Room's Artist - in - Residence program is made possible, in part, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and through the support of the Center for Performance Research and Chez Bushwick.
Perhaps bridging the two, Chambers, who identifies as a genderqueer artist, says her acrylic paintings redirect the cultural tendency to organize people by age, gender, income and other «checked - off boxes» to the unruliness of the natural world: «I live with enough ambiguity projected onto me through assigned labels.»
We focus on new commissions, giving the opportunity to artists to engage with the public space through our city and community projects, such as opening up closed gardens within the center of Athens to house public art exhibitions and bridge our formidable cultural heritage with contemporary art initiatives.
Fostering Creativity and Culture by promoting the arts, advancing education, supporting cultural institutions and innovative projects with cutting edge talent; Promoting Wellbeing, supporting initiatives on women's empowerment, access to health and education and assisting the advancement and development of young people and communities; and Conserving Natural Resources through water sustainability and environmental projects to promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment.
Joan Mitchell Center supports community partners through an innovative short residency style experience that allows critics, curators, cultural practitioners and arts administrators to connect with artists, the Esplanade Ridge neighborhood while working on projects through their host partners.
* Supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grants Program through an Organization Project Grant.
About HCAC Grants In order to foster and sustain a vital and diverse arts community, the Arts Council provides operating and project grants to local arts organizations, regional arts and cultural organizations, and Howard County schools through Parent Teacher Associations.
For over 45 years, Delta Fine Arts Center has provided unique cultural and educational programming through exhibitions, classes, workshops, lectures, films, performances, and special projects.
Featuring architectural models, drawings and photos, the show traces Safdie's development through prior projects, including Habitat 67 in Montreal, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and Department of Veterans» Services today announced new projects as part of Bryan Doerries» evolving two - year appointment as a NYC Public Artist in Residence (PAIR), a City initiative to enhance civic services through artistic practice.
Often putting in front of himself the demanding tasks, Longo worked for one year on the Magellan project (1995), drawing 366 pieces, every day per one, documenting the images that impacted his thoughts, representing his cultural and personal environment through his distinctive visual language.
Public support for this project has been provided by the City of New York through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Council.
Through this worldwide project he collected photographs and source materials for a unique body of work for each country, and bestowed artworks in cultural institutions in each nation and one in the National Gallery of Art that was made during his travels.
Exhibitions during the anniversary celebration include Opener 29: Arturo Herrera (through August 23, 2015), featuring new works from the Berlin - based artist's recent body of abstract paintings for which he manipulated small books found at flea markets; Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live by Special Request), (September 19, 2015 — January 3, 2016), which will feature a series of interventions, performances, and happenings created for the Tang by Skidmore alumnus Mark Allen in collaboration with his Los Angeles - based collective Machine Project; Affinity Atlas (September 5, 2015 — January 3, 2016), inspired by the work of pioneering cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg, charts an exploratory path built upon idiosyncratic treasures and contemporary art culled from the Tang's and Skidmore's collections; and Alma Thomas: A Retrospective (February 6 — June 5, 2016), which will explore the work of this influential but sometimes overlooked artist in the first museum survey of her work since 2001.
The exhibition was funded through the generosity of the Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs Artist Project Grant awarded to Beard in 2017.
From focused exhibitions on the work of Cuban painter Amelia Peláez and Haitian born, Miami - based artist Edouard Duval - Carrié to thematic presentations of the Museum's permanent collection to major retrospectives on artists Ai Weiwei and Beatriz Milhazes and group exhibitions on the exchange of ideas between the Caribbean basin, Europe, and North Africa, PAMM's upcoming projects serve as critical frames through which larger dialogues about recent history, migration, new cultural formations, and diverse ideologies can be structured.
Audrey Chan (b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles - based artist, writer, and educator whose research - based projects articulate political and cultural identities through allegorical narrative and the feminist construct of «the personal is political.»
Internationally, Gates has also reflected on the capacity of art to renew traditions, upraise connectivity among communities or set up dialogues and exchange cultural heritage among cities through his projects, such as those in Istanbul, Bristol or Kassel.
ISSUE Project Room's Artist - in - Residence program is made possible, in part, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and through the support of The James E. Robison Foundation, and Chez Bushwick.
For this site - specific project, Rios Ferreira initiated the work through community engagement, conducting workshops with teenagers in youth programs at Wave Hill and at Casita Maria, two Bronx - based cultural institutions.
One can see this in two bodies of work: cultural representation is the primary issue in The African American Flag Project, where «African American» flags were the subject of the paintings; and the Made in USA series of paintings touch on the politics of consumption through self - referential text and image.
We play a vital role in Atlanta's cultural landscape by presenting over 100 consequential artists from the local, national, and international art scenes through our various exhibition and project spaces each year.
(b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles - based artist, writer, and educator whose research - based projects articulate political and cultural identities through allegorical narrative and the feminist construct of «the personal is political.»
In the 1980s and early 90s Group Material's projects similarly collated various cultural objects through «review, selection and critical juxtaposition,» a collective process that emphasized «shared learning and shared ideas.»
Group Island Press: Recent Prints, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2018 Thinking Through Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, 2018 Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 The Unhomely, Denny Gallery, New York, NY, 2017 Women Painting, Miami Dade College, Kendall Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 New Faces, Different Places, Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM 2017 The Home Show, form & concept, Santa Fe, NM, 2016 Girls Who Dance in Dissonance, Wayside, Los Angeles, CA, 2016 Surface Area: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2016 Self - Proliferation, Girls» Club, curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2016 Faces and Vases, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2016 Visions Into Infinite Archives, SOMArts Cultural Center, curated by Black Salt Collective, San Francisco, CA, 2016 Summer Art Faculty Exhibition, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2015 Paula Wilson & Jovencio de la Paz, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI, 2015 Perception Isn't Always Reality, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO, 2015 DRAW: Mapping Madness, Inside — Out Art Museum, curated by Tomas Vu, Beijing, China, 2014 - 2015 Lake Effect, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, curated by Mike Andrews, Saugatuck, MI, 2014 I Am The Magic Hand, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, Organized by Josephine Halvorson, New York, NY, 2013 Sanctify, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2012 Configured, Benrimon Contemporary, Curated By Teka Selman, New York, NY 2012 Art by Choice, Mississippi Museum of Fine Art, Jackson, MS, 2011 The February Show, Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY, 2011 Art on Paper: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, 2010 Defrosted: A Life of Walt Disney, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, 2010 41st Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK, 2009 - 2010 Carrizozo Artist's Show, Gallery 408, Carrizozo, NM, 2009 - 2010 While We Were Away, Sragow Gallery, New York, NY, 2009 A Decade of Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999 - 2009, Tsingha University, Beijing, China, 2009 Collected.
Founded through a private initiative in 1996, the Berlin Biennale has been receiving exclusive funding as a lighthouse project from the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) since 2004.