Art

LifeSwap Animation Series

LifeSwap Animation Series

Dec 13, 2016

Ah, the fun of living abroad...Enjoying new experiences and stumbling through cultural mishaps.  If you've ever experienced life abroad, you will love this fun animation series on Vimeo called "LifeSwap".  It is about a German and Kiwi who swap lives.  The series was...

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One Way Ticket: The Art of Jacob Lawrence

One Way Ticket: The Art of Jacob Lawrence

Jul 18, 2016

"...I pick up my life And take it away On a one-way ticket— Gone up North, Gone out West, Gone!" -Langston Hughes from "One Way Ticket" 1962   Jacob Lawrence was a self proclaimed "child of The Great Migration".  The Great Migration was the movement of over six...

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Let Me In- A Short Film by Alicia Keys

Let Me In- A Short Film by Alicia Keys

Jul 12, 2016

Let me in is a short film directed by Jonathan Olinger.  It was premiered by Alicia Keys in conjunction with her We Are Here movement on World Refugee Day .  The film turns the tables on the on our perceptions of refugees. “I was stunned when I learned that there are...

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    Rowena Dring is British, and spent time in Berlin and France before settling here in Amsterdam. She is an artist who challenges traditional boundaries by incorporating the traditional ‘women’s work’ of sewing and needlework with large-scale painting. She first started this type of art after her father died, and observes that ‘when you feel like […]
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