Posted on 10-22-2012
International Murals / Public Art
2012Le Mur de lEspoir, Community and collaborative art project created with migrant/ refugees and forced exile people. Monthey, Switzerland.In collaboration with Amnesty International 2012Art et Travail Social, Community based project with Social Work students, faculty and organizers.HES.SO, Haute Ecole Spécialisé de Suisse OccidentaleSierre, Switzerland 2012Collaborative art project with the community of migrant and refugees in Ticino, Switzerland.In [...]
Posted on 10-20-2012
International Murals / Public Art News Reports
Two years ago, in a rainy afternoon in Perquin, Dina, Verenice, Rosa del Carmen and I were imagining how it would be like to work in a collaborative art project in Switzerland. It seemed a wonderful, unreachable, distant possibility. Florencia Roulet is a historian who lives in Monthey, south of Geneva. She is a member [...]
Posted on 10-19-2012
International Murals / Public Art
Beginnings The Holy Cross Dispute Holy Cross is an all-girl Catholic primary school in what had been a mixed area until the beginning of The Troubles. The Ardoyne area is segregated with loyalists to the north and nationalists to the south of the wall backing Alliance Avenue, and over time a permanent wall was built [...]
Posted on 10-18-2012
International Murals / Public Art Reports
La Luna se hab’a olvidado de nosotros The Moon had forgotten usDoña Basilia, Huehuetenango Recovering Historic Memory with Indigenous Women Survivors of Sexual Violence in Guatemala Claudia Bernardi Doña Basilia said that when the army came to kill her husband, she was preparing tortillas, her son was at home and the moon was full. It [...]
Posted on 10-13-2012
International Murals / Public Art Reports
“A NOSOTROS NOS HAN HECHO TANTO DAÑO/THEY HAVE DONE SO MUCH HARM TO US”Doña Carlina Art Created with the Association of Victims of Violence in Cocorná, COLOMBIA By CLAUDIA BERNARDI In August of 2008 while working in Huehuetenango with ECAP and with a groupof indigenous women survivors of sexual violence, I received an email from [...]
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