Empowering Children through Photography
“A picture is worth more than a thousand words,” they say. And indeed it is. In a world in which our society faces abysmal separations due to ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic issues, there is an...
View ArticleArt in Education
“The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.” -President Barack Obama July 7th, 2009 It’s true—the importance of education and imagination are indisputable. In...
View ArticleAi Wei Wei: Art Meets Activism
Our current education system is one that is unfortunately predominantly based on memorization and repetition. We are at a place in time where we need innovation, creativity, and drive, characteristics...
View ArticleRocking Out in DC
What happens when you take four girls ages 8-18, put amped-up rock instruments into their hands, and tell them they have one week to write and learn a song to perform at the 9:30 Club? It’s possible...
View ArticleStudents Use Dance as a Means of Cultural Expression
As the United States becomes increasingly diverse as a result of immigration, we begin to see the varied cultures that migrate into our country express themselves in many ways. Some do it through their...
View ArticleBorder-Crossing and Monarch Butterflies: An Introduction to Artists who...
Art functions as an especially expressive and powerful tool for those marginalized individuals whose lives are defined by boundaries: the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the...
View ArticleEditor’s Note: Art + Immigration
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance” – Aristotle Monarch butterflies, or as they are called in Australia, wanderers, are a kind of North...
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