In recent years, there has been a wave of creative initiatives bringing modern art into rural communities. One example is the Art at Fuliang project. Part of the Art Field China Project, it has turned a small village in east China's Jiangxi Province into an art gallery under the sun. ...
Collaborative art making in rural communitiesSmyth, Karen
Xuân Pham experiments with ephemeral materials from the everyday experiences of Vietnamese immigrants--such as rice paper, pandan, and brooms--to reflect on the legacies of displacement, migration, and race within Asian American and immigrant communities in the United States. In this exhibition,...
The mining districts and steel mills around Birmingham, and the communities that sprang up around them, hold an ongoing fascination for me. My mother’s family moved from Cullman County to Birmingham in the 1940s and her father transitioned from farmer to steel worker at a steel fabrication fac...
W hen I was initially asked to be a participant in this conference, I thought I was to come up with strategies or modalities on how to bring equity into rural America. So in starting to prepare for this conference, I read the previous conference book Financing Rural America (Federal Reser...
Servicing rural communities Some areas are less densely populated, like San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Redlands actually borders San Bernardino and parts of Grand Terrace. People in cities like Corona, Eastvale, and Lake Mathews understand that appraisal services like jewelry appraisals, antique...
Court-appointed researchers are motorbiking through rural hillside communities in Guatemala and showing up at courthouses in Honduras to conduct public record searches. Their efforts are part of a wide-ranging campaign to track down parents separated from their children at the U.S. border beginning...
brilliant (brilliance) shine in the light.With limited access 42.to the internet within these rural communities, the craftswomen struggle to make 43.. a living from their art. Wen says, “By sharing their Chinese embroidery on social medi a and44. setting (set) up an online sales medium,...
In addition, selected handicrafts are on show at scenic areas and tourism-focused communities and rural areas, according to the Shandong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism. Designers and artists have combined modern innovation with traditional handicrafts to create new products. ...
Nevin Speerbrecker’s letter “L” was influenced by Michigan’s rural winding road landscape and the LAFCU theme of “around every corner.” Nevin Speerbrecker grew up in Lansing and Lansing Public Schools and studied art illustration at Lansing Community College. He has works as a Graphic Des...