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Quantum entanglement, Irana Douer

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What happens when the arts get defunded?

"Still, there are some bright spots in 2025 yet: Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs has received an increased budget for the year ahead, and in September, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced up to $80 million in capital funding available for nonprofit arts and cultural organizations. It’s clear that a bigger, cultural transformation is needed to create a sustainable cultural ecosystem. But we will take such small wins." By REBECCA DECZYNSKI

Plus, a question of to be or not to be.

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There is no denying that the modern field of philanthropy — constructed by individuals and entities that give away money to advance the public good — has severe limitations in its ability to address the many social, economic and environme [...]

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“Manifesto del Sindicato de Obreros Tecnicos, Pintores y Escultores, 1922″

Manifesto issued by the Union of Technical Workers, Painters, and Sculptors, 1922

“Social, Political, and Aesthetic Declaration from the Union of Technical Workers, Painters, and Sculptors to the indigenous races humiliated through centuries; to the soldiers converted into hangmen by their chiefs; to the workers and peasants who are oppressed by the rich; and to the intellectuals who are not servile to the bourgeoisie:

We are with those who seek to overthrow of an old and inhuman system within which you, worker of the soil, produce riches for the overseer and politician, while you starve. Within which you, worker in the city, move the wheels of industries, weave the cloth, and create with your hands the modern comforts enjoyed by the parasites and prostitutes, while your own body is numb and cold. Within which you, Indian soldier, heroically abandon your land and give your life in the eternal hope of liberating your race from the degradations and misery of centuries.

Not only the noble labor but even the smallest manifestations of the material and spiritual vitality of our race spring from our native midst. Its admirable, exceptional, and peculiar ability to create beauty — the art of the Mexican people — is the highest and greatest spiritual expression of the world-tradition which constitutes our most valued heritage. It is great because it surges from the people; it is collective, and our own aesthetic aim is to socialize artistic expression, to destroy bourgeois individualism.

We repudiate the so-called easel art and all such art which springs from ultra-intellectual circles, for it is essentially aristocratic.

We hail the monumental expression of art because such art is public property.

We proclaim that this being the moment of social transformation from a decrepit to a new order, the makers of beauty must invest their greatest efforts in the aim of materializing an art valuable to the people, and our supreme objective in art, which is today an expression for individual pleasure, is to create beauty for all, beauty that enlightens and stirs to struggle.”

David Siqueiros, et al., originally published as a broadside in Mexico City, 1922. Published again in El Machete, no. 7 (Barcelona, June 1924).

English translation from Laurence E. Schmeckebier Modern Mexican Art (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1939), p. 31.

(https://backspace.com/notes/2004/09/manifesto-del-sindicato-de-obreros-tecnicos-pintores-y-escultores.php)

#mantra #whatidoandwhoidoitfor #manifesto #mexican artists

Sibyls Shrine is a new artist residency program for Black women, womxn, trans women, and femmes who are mothers and identify as artists, creatives, and/or activists in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

For these womxn, the challenges of parenting in combination with systemic racism and sexism often make the barriers to entry into the art world insurmountable.

The Sibyls Shrine residency program uplifts Black creative mothers with opportunities for skill-sharing, self-care, safe space, and financial support in an effort to further develop their craft and presence in the art world.

In response to COVID-19 - Sibyls Shrine will welcome the first 30 Black creative mothers who sign up for an initial 8 week period. Mothers will be supported by this burgeoning network of other Pittsburgh-based creative mothers, will receive an unrestricted honorarium just for joining, have access to our monthly digital classes and workshops, and be encouraged to lead their own creative skill-sharing programs with the rest of this collective.

There is no age limit to join our group. All Black creative mothers in Pittsburgh are welcome regardless of their media or discipline, how long they've been making and whether they practice as a full or part time artist, an emerging creative or an experienced practitioner-- we look forward to existing with you in this space and reimagining the structures of our world.

#sibyls shrine #art residency #black mothers

“I recognized terms about how “colors” interact from Albers’s text: colored, boundaries, movement, transparency, mixture, purity, restriction, deception, memory, transformation, instrumentation, systems, recognition, psychic effect, placement, quality, and value. The language around de jure segregation is similar to Albers’s description of the wrong way to perceive color, as if color is static. Marshall and Albers concluded that color is relative, and what a viewer perceives a color to be is determined by the color nearest to it. Color is always changing, and, contrary to popular belief, it is not absolute. I saw the phenomenon of vibrating boundaries aligned with residential redistricting and redlining. Color theory and human rights are conceptually interwoven in my paintings. I find the language comparisons appropriate metaphors for a critique of racism rather than a critique of categories of race.“

#color theory #albers #marshall

Working with these three was a dream come true!

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..my whole heart.

The Avalanches - Because I’m Me

Jessica Gaynelle Moss '18 - Art Law [Self Defined Study]

During my time at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, I was exposed to an intrepid and fantastic world that I had yet to experience anything else like it in my professional career.

My professional work is focused on the intersection of the arts, education and advocacy. I build artist's spaces in dilapidated communities with the goal of economic redevelopment. Throughout my career, my roles and positions have been working for artists directly or within museums, galleries or non-profit community centers. The MSL program offered the opportunity to shape and build a legal curriculum that would be completely unique to me, my interests and professional experience. During my year of study, I focused on the intersection of art, property and race in this country-- something not offered at any other graduate program in the US. I was able to gain a deeper insight into the diverse perspectives of legal professionals who are actively still engaged in their specific fields, like Professor Gerald Dickinson [leading the national discussion concerning racial injustices in real estate and property law] and Professor Michael Madison [an international scholar in the world of copyright and trademark law]. My cohort was full of diverse perspectives, opinions and experiences, which only made for a more rich and valuable experience. As a result, my professional network has expanded dramatically, providing access to spaces, places and people I otherwise wouldn't have has access to. As a graduate of the MSL program, I use my degree everyday. From reading through artist's contracts to developing short-term lease agreements for residencies, my year of study at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law continues to supplement my work and career in invaluable ways.

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