About the Global Art Project (GAP), Calendar, and Contacts
Send for the Powerpoint slide
show
of CT Artists at Work-- 2002 Exchange
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Join the Global Art Project, a
biennial artist's exchange program.
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What is it and how
does it work?
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The next exchange is April,
2004.
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Contact The Global Art
Project to get involved, see contacts below.
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See local artwork in our GAP2002
CT Artists Gallery
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Send
for the Powerpoint slide
show of Creating Art Together at the home of Mary Gravelle, March
2002. Ten Connecticut artists created art together for the GAP2002.
Email mary@wisdompainting.com
with your request, include your mailing address. Or call her at (860)
649-9701. Please send $4.95 for shipping and handling to Mary Gravelle,
c/o Wisdom Painting and Art, 56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06106
- See list of contact names below.
Global Art Project Contacts:
Global contact:
Katherine Josten
P. O. Box 40445
Tucson, AZ 85717, USA
Telephone: (520) 628-8353
Facsimile: (520) 624-6284
email: josten@concentric.net
website: www. global-art.org
Connecticut contacts for the Global Art
Project are:
- Mary Gravelle of Wisdom Painting and Art, (860) 649-9701 for the Greater
Hartford and eastern region.
Email: mary@wisdompainting.com
- Frances P. Clem of Frances Clem Studios, (860) 567-8901 for Torrington and
the northwest corner of the state.
Email: fran2stu-art@snet.net
- Carol Goff, teacher at R.D. Seymour Elementary School in East Granby,
(860) 653-7214 has offered to share her ideas of how to organize the event
in your school.
Email: egartteach@aol.com
My personal story on participation with the
Global Art Project
by Mary Gravelle
I just knew I had to become involved with the Global
Art Project in 1998 when I saw a flyer at an artist's studio. He and I were
the only participants from Connecticut that year.
When it came around again in year 2000, I took it upon myself to be the
"Hartford Regional Coordinator" for the project.
I mailed out flyers to everyone I knew around the world. I posted flyers
around town. I sent flyers and letters to everyone on my personal and business
mailing lists. There were eight participants from Connectictut that year.
The small number of participants in my area that year was a little
discouraging since I had expended so much energy broadcasting the news. But that
didn't hold me back when it came around again in year 2002.
By this time, I had been assigned to be the official Regional Coordinator for
Northeastern Connecticut. You can find me on the Global Art Project website,
www.global-art.org under "People." www.global-art.org
The number of participants in Connecticut did increase in 2002 to 12 groups
where 200 people created works of art together and 17 individual participants.
It takes time to build momentum.
Ten of us gathered at my house in March to begin our projects in the spirit
of global community. We shared our ideas on global peace and had a great time
together.
We exhibited our works in May in the Hartford Open Studio, a citywide event
where artists open their studios to show and sell their works. It was a
wonderful way to share our visions of global unity in our local area.
The works of art that I have created for the exchanges are two paintings, Global
Protector and Sky
Wizards, and one inkless collagraph print, No Color: The Great Equalizer.
The artwork I have received in the three exchanges are gorgeous. I have
received a boldly colorful painting of a
crescent moon and sun from Taiwan, a hand built porcelain angel sitting on
the world from Ohio, and a
hand dyed, hand-sewn pillow from California.
These are the results and products of love energy expended, expanded, and
exploded bits of peace energy forming a grid over the planet, holding us all
together in its embrace.
Personally, the project speaks to me as a powerful way to do my part in
effecting world peace. I am an artist and I also help people discover more about
themselves through the artmaking process in my workshop business, Wisdom
Painting and Art. Visit my Workshops page for more
information.
I feel a kindred connection to Katherine Josten, whom I met in September,
2000 during a visit to Arizona. She is an amazing woman who has taken on the
world and made it her personal mission to create world peace. She is one person
making a real contribution and a difference in the world and we are the
benefactors of her efforts.
I support Katherine's efforts and in the process I become peace. That is
where peace begins, after all, in our own hearts. If we did nothing else but do
our own personal work to Be Peace, then we will have created world peace.
I invite you to participate in the next exchange in 2004.
Visit my Sky Wizards store online, www.cafeshops.com/gap2002
, where 100% of the profits go to the Global
Art Project.
Make art, make peace.
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