Posts Tagged ‘art’

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Climate Hope film

We are thrilled to share the film “Climate Hope,” a collaboration with the Arlington Art Truck to engage with approximately 1000 people in Arlington, Virginia over a two-month period.  Participants discussed climate change and wrote and illustrated climate pledges and six-word poems on saris from...

by Monica Bose on August 13th, 2024
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Public presentation of “STRETCH”

NOTICE REGARDING  PROPOSED PUBLIC ART PROJECT  “STRETCH” ARTIST:  MONICA JAHAN BOSE The art project STRETCH proposes to stretch sari fabric (temporary) across the building  and create a tile mural (permanent) at the exterior of 1724 California St NW, Washington, DC 20009. The saris are massive...

by Monica Bose on July 2nd, 2024
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SWIMMING launch

We had an online launch on December 13, 2023 to get started on SWIMMING, a new public art project that explores the deep and essential connections we have to water as our world faces increased flooding and rising sea levels due to climate change. When...

by Monica Bose on January 6th, 2024
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Earth Day Recap

We had over 2000 people watch us live from around the world on April 22, 2020, the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. Thank you to everyone who joined. We had some technical issues with sound but it was still great to chat with Robin Bell...

by Monica Bose on May 10th, 2020
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WRAPture Installation

After months of work, the saris are finally done! Please come see the installation. Since its November 2018 kickoff, WRAPture has worked with 12 women in Katakhali, Bangladesh and over 150 members of the community in Washington DC, including youth from Project Create, formerly homeless...

by Monica Bose on March 17th, 2019
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Super Special Shutdown Workshop for WRAPture

While our president has shut down the US government over a border wall to keep Latinx immigrants out, we spent the day with furloughed federal workers working on a different kind of “border patrol” to create woodblock sari borders for a transborder feminist art project...

by Monica Bose on January 18th, 2019
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