Press Release
INTERNATIONAL ARTS MOVEMENT'S 2008 ENCOUNTER
GENERATIVE CREATIVITY: TRANSFORMING THE CULTURAL RIVER
FEB 28-MAR 1 IN LOWER MANHATTAN
NEW YORK, NY, January 31, 2008 — On February 28, 2008, an estimated five hundred artists and creative catalysts from over 30 states and eight nations will gather at Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Borough of Manhattan Community College) for International Arts Movement's 2008 Encounter, "Generative Creativity: Transforming the Cultural River." IAM's annual encounter has become a high point for many members of the global creative community who are interested in exploring the deep questions of art, faith and humanity. Programming for the three-day encounter includes a juried art exhibit, juried music competition, curated film series, lectures, musical performances, poetry readings, topical workshops, and vibrant inter-disciplinary artistic collaborations aimed at inspiring the creative community to engage the culture that is and create the world that ought to be.
Presenters and performers will include Dick Staub (Broadcaster, Writer & Public Speaker), Terry Teachout (Wall Street Journal Drama Critic), Sarah Hanssen (Filmmaker), Tara Donovan (Artist), Barbara Takenaga (Artist), Micheal O'Siadhail (Irish Poet), Jeff Speck (Urban Designer, Former National Endowment for the Arts Design Director), David Miller (Yale Divinity School), Jerzy Sapieyevski (Composer/Performer), Miguel Sanchez Romera (Spanish Culinary Artist), Rob Mathes (Composer/Arranger), Makoto Fujimura (Artist, Member of the NEA National Council on the Arts & IAM Founder) and The Los Angeles Collaboration. Past presenters include Emmy-award winning actress Patricia Heaton, Yale theologian Miroslov Volf, NEA Chairman and poet Dana Gioia, and architect Daniel Liebeskind.
Artistic disciplines represented at the encounter include painters, directors, actors, authors, musicians, poets, sculptors, photographers, singers, journalists, theatrical crew, songwriters, screenwriters, dancers, designers, stylists, and curators, as well as patrons of the arts, architects, business people, and pastors.
IAM, an arts advocacy movement founded by Makoto Fujimura in 1991, is a non-profit organization that equips artists to wrestle with questions of art, faith and humanity, engaging its community in both philosophical and pragmatic discussions about the role of the arts in creating "the world that ought to be." While artists today are known mostly for their rebellion, alienation, addiction and apathy, IAM believes artists can be articulators of hope and integration to a broken culture and aims to catalyze a movement of artists to be agents of "cultural Shalom."
In the past, IAM art exhibits in Manila, Tokyo, and New York have focused on peacemaking, reconciliation and poverty. According to IAM Director Bryan Horvath, "The desire to see culture transformed flows out of a compassionate, faith-centered worldview that presses us to care about art, human rights, social justice, equality, care of the environment, and creativity. We feel that these are human issues, so we want to find common ground to invite others who share our vision of the world that ought to be to wrestle through deep issues and questions with us, regardless of their faith perspectives
GENERATIVE CREATIVITY: TRANSFORMING THE CULTURAL RIVER
FEB 28-MAR 1 IN LOWER MANHATTAN
NEW YORK, NY, January 31, 2008 — On February 28, 2008, an estimated five hundred artists and creative catalysts from over 30 states and eight nations will gather at Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Borough of Manhattan Community College) for International Arts Movement's 2008 Encounter, "Generative Creativity: Transforming the Cultural River." IAM's annual encounter has become a high point for many members of the global creative community who are interested in exploring the deep questions of art, faith and humanity. Programming for the three-day encounter includes a juried art exhibit, juried music competition, curated film series, lectures, musical performances, poetry readings, topical workshops, and vibrant inter-disciplinary artistic collaborations aimed at inspiring the creative community to engage the culture that is and create the world that ought to be.
Presenters and performers will include Dick Staub (Broadcaster, Writer & Public Speaker), Terry Teachout (Wall Street Journal Drama Critic), Sarah Hanssen (Filmmaker), Tara Donovan (Artist), Barbara Takenaga (Artist), Micheal O'Siadhail (Irish Poet), Jeff Speck (Urban Designer, Former National Endowment for the Arts Design Director), David Miller (Yale Divinity School), Jerzy Sapieyevski (Composer/Performer), Miguel Sanchez Romera (Spanish Culinary Artist), Rob Mathes (Composer/Arranger), Makoto Fujimura (Artist, Member of the NEA National Council on the Arts & IAM Founder) and The Los Angeles Collaboration. Past presenters include Emmy-award winning actress Patricia Heaton, Yale theologian Miroslov Volf, NEA Chairman and poet Dana Gioia, and architect Daniel Liebeskind.
Artistic disciplines represented at the encounter include painters, directors, actors, authors, musicians, poets, sculptors, photographers, singers, journalists, theatrical crew, songwriters, screenwriters, dancers, designers, stylists, and curators, as well as patrons of the arts, architects, business people, and pastors.
IAM, an arts advocacy movement founded by Makoto Fujimura in 1991, is a non-profit organization that equips artists to wrestle with questions of art, faith and humanity, engaging its community in both philosophical and pragmatic discussions about the role of the arts in creating "the world that ought to be." While artists today are known mostly for their rebellion, alienation, addiction and apathy, IAM believes artists can be articulators of hope and integration to a broken culture and aims to catalyze a movement of artists to be agents of "cultural Shalom."
In the past, IAM art exhibits in Manila, Tokyo, and New York have focused on peacemaking, reconciliation and poverty. According to IAM Director Bryan Horvath, "The desire to see culture transformed flows out of a compassionate, faith-centered worldview that presses us to care about art, human rights, social justice, equality, care of the environment, and creativity. We feel that these are human issues, so we want to find common ground to invite others who share our vision of the world that ought to be to wrestle through deep issues and questions with us, regardless of their faith perspectives
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