PuffinSpotlight
ACLU-NJ: Automated Injustice
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The ACLU of New Jersey started its Automated Injustice Project with a central question in mind: How has the New Jersey government’s use of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and automated decision systems affected the rights and well-being of people living in the Garden State? These systems have been shown to perpetuate Read More
Ending the U.S.-Saudi War in Yemen through Protest Photography
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On March 1, in both 2022 and 2023 Action Corps called on people around the country to protest the war on Yemen and demand that members of Congress pass a War Powers Resolution. Working together with a photographer, we were able to capture on-the-ground activism. This project was a part Read More
Connecting Nature and Human Life
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My driving force for creating art is my passion for wildlife, environmental welfare, and creating awareness of existence. The work focuses on coexistence, ecological preservation, and inclusion. Through my academic background in fine arts and educational leadership, I am able to teach visual arts in various locations and different age Read More
Land Use Intervention Library
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Land Use Intervention Library is part of an ongoing project about land use, climate change, and self-determination. The project follows Last Street End, a series of facilitated, public encounters conducted in 2021 in Gowanus, Brooklyn involving ecology and municipal planning investigations, media making, and performance art. Material produced by participants Read More
Launch of the public art Mural Project: A Sense of Place
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Artist Georgeanne Gaffney is the selected Muralist for the 2023 Tahawus Center’s Outdoor Mural Project, “A Sense of Place.” The mural will be located at the end of a rectangular pocket park which Tahawus calls “the Grotto.” It lies between Tahawus and the Ausable Theater, in Au Sable Forks – Read More
Guitars for Change
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“Guitars for Change” is an after-school program for at-risk, immigrant children. The children receive free guitars and lessons in an after-school program. The parents/caregivers of these children work long hours and most children do not have a parent/caregiver waiting for them at home after school in the afternoon. What do Read More
Barn Raiser
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With the tagline, “Your Independent Source for Rural and Small Town News,” Barn Raiser is the flagship national publication for a new network of state-based publications, the first of which will be Wisconsin Barn Raiser. Why barn raiser? In the 18th and 19th centuries throughout most of rural North Read More
Beauty & (Im)Balance ~ Quarantine Backyard Mandalas
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“…the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.” ~ Wendell Berry On a micro level, my backyard woodlands in northern NJ reflect a Read More
Colonial Colonnade
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Arabic, often misunderstood and feared when seen in “Western” contexts, is accompanied by its English translation thus normalizing its presence to question and assert historical conceits and lazy assumptions. “Colonial Colonnade” visually merges English and Arabic into one space as the basis for improvisational text, image, spoken word, dance, and Read More
Unlearning Imperialism
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Through the generous support of the Puffin Foundation, we investigate what it means to unlearn: as a process of recognizing through shared reading and conversation about our individual art practices. In the book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, scholar Ariella Azoulay posits that the camera’s shutter creates imperial violence by drawing Read More