PROFIT + PURPOSE
May 15, 2012 - PROFIT + PURPOSE STRUCTURING SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FOR IMPACT, a workshop by Kyle Westaway that will cover the basics on different types of structure including non-profits, B Corps, benefit corporations, flexible purpose corporations, LLCs and more.
MAP Partner Cultural Strategies Initiative is producing the event as a part of their exploration of partnerships between the arts and social enterprise.
When: May 22, 2012 6:00 - 10:00 PM
Where: Demos - 220 5th Avenue at 26th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY
Admission: $10.00
For tickets: http://csi-westawayevent.eventbrite.com
About Kyle Westaway:
Kyle Westaway believes in the power of the market to create social and environmental change. Westaway is cofounder of Biographe, a sustainable fashion brand that employs and empowers survivors of the commercial sex trade in Bangkok, and Founding Partner at Westaway Law, an innovative law firm that counsels social entrepreneurs. He lectures on social entrepreneurship at Harvard and Stanford Law Schools. Kyle has written on capitalism, tech, entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship for Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, GOOD and Stanford Social Innovation Review and has been featured in the New York Times.
ECO-ART AT PORI ART MUSEUM
May 13, 2012 - In 2011 the Pori Art Museum in Finland produced an exhibition titled, ECO - ART, which investigated how artists are engaging with the landscape and environmental issues. Participating artists included MAP artists, Helen and Newton Harrison. In an effort to minimize the carbon footprint of the exhibition the museum avoided, when possible, the transport of artwork and produced the visual material locally. A full-color hardbound catalog is now available on the museum's web site and includes informative essays by John K. Grande and Peter Selz. Other featured artists include: Richard Misrach, Agnes Dene, Ichi Ikeda, Dennis Oppenheim and Jan-Erik Anderson.
For more information: http://www.poriartmuseum.fi
THE TALES FROM OTHER SEAS
May 6, 2012 - THE TALES FROM OTHER SEAS, is an exhibition of a new body of work by Slovak artist Oto Hudec, whose project "Instrument for Listening" is a part of MAP. About this new work, Hudec writes:
"The painting is usually understood as an image fixed in time – as non moving, permanent reality. The paintings shown in this exhibition are – to the contrary – like a still image from the movie that aims to bring to question what happened before and what will happen after. They are parts of fictional story, almost illustrations for a book that was never written…
What is that book about? Talks about distant land, where vast natural areas were invaded with no respect by human constructions – with an attempt to build a perfect world – well functioning, pretty. Talks about certain solitude in this world and about alienation. There is a fragility of human existence in that world, because the nature – now out of balance – shows a signs of movement, that we cannot fully understand. The land is alive.
Although these paintings were mostly painted or inspired by my stage in usa in 2011, their themes attempt to speak over the borders of one country– travelling – and understanding other countries, cultures – seems to me much more a way to understand ourselves, a way to see our own existence from a distance, new perspective."
THE TALES FROM OTHER SEAS. May 5 - June 9, 2012
Espaço Gesto
Rua José Falcão, 107-111
4050-317 Porto
Portugal
Image: Oto Hudec, The Price of Water, mixed media, 2012
ROOTED
May 3, 2012 - ROOTED: food and farming initiatives as regional artworks salon at threewalls, May 8
threewalls will examine ways that innovative agricultural and culinary projects assert new understandings of spaces, ideals, tools, and relationships. Food is a common language with which we can talk about topics such as sustainability, local economies, nutrition, access, with many different types of people. These creative initiatives are about the pleasures of food, understanding diverse histories of cuisine, and bringing people together around a table to discuss the issues that are important to their lives in Chicago and elsewhere.
Information about threewalls publication, PHONEBOOK 3 a directory of independent art spaces, progrramming, and projects throughout the United States can be found in the MAP Resource link.
for more information on the salon including the participants please visit:
http://three-walls.org/calendar/2012/05/rooted-food-and-farming-initiatives-as-regional-artworks.php
Image: Eric May's E-Dogz Mobile Culinary Community Center
ATMOSPHERES OF PROTEST
April 28, 2012 - Atmospheres of Protest: Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art at Central European University, Budapest, May 11, 2102.
The upsurge of new popular movements from Egypt to Greece and Bucharest to New York has engendered an atmosphere of defiance and social creativity that has captured the global imagination. Beyond the ebb and
flow of individual protest movements, this symposium asks whether global solidarity has really taken hold this time and considers the variety of ways in which contemporary art is embroiled through practices of dialogue and collaboration in the emergence of a common horizon and the imagining of a sustainable future. Providing a
trans-disciplinary forum for discussion of the vital issues bridging the fields of art and environmental thought, the symposium sheds light on our understanding of the multifarious notion of sustainability, which appears by turns as a radical concept in global ecological thinking, can be recruited as a corporate strategy for green
capitalism, and may act as a spur to new forms of social activism.For more information visit: http://translocal.org/sustainability/indexsus6.html
Photo: Occupy Museums banners outside of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 14, 2012
OPEN ENGAGEMENT CONFERENCE 2012
APRIL 23, 2012 - Open Engagement is a free annual conference on socially engaged art. Directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with the Art and Social Practice program at Portland State University (PSU) in Portland, Oregon. The 2012 conference takes place May 18 - 20 at various locations on and around the PSU campus.
Each year the conference themes are directly related to the current research and inquiry of the students in the Art and Social Practice program at Portland State University. Students and faculty work together to select the featured presenters, who then also become faculty in the Art and Social Practice MFA program. Open Engagement fosters both local, national and international dialogue and partnerships around socially engaged art making.
To register and for more information: http://openengagement.info
DISCUSSION ON INTERNATIONAL ART RESIDENCIES
April 13, 2012 - Mary Sherman, whose organization Trans Cultural Exchange is a MAP partner, will take part in a panel discussion on International Art Residencies at Swissnex Boston on May 2, 2012 from 6:30 - 9:00 PM.
Kiki Thompson, Co-Founder of the 3-D Verbier Sculpture Park Residency Program, discuss the values of international residency programs in the arts. Additionally, Bostonian sculptors and Verbier Residency veterans, Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein will speak about their experiences.
Other artists included in the Panel:
● Mary Sherman, Director of TransCultural Exchange
● Franklin Einspruch, painter, writer and arts critic
● Lynne Allen, Director, School of Visual Arts at Boston University
● Antoni Muntadas, visiting Professor of the Practice at MIT
Moderator:
● Caitlin Strokosch, Exec. Director at Alliance of Artists Communities
Established in 2000 as the world’s first “science consulate,” swissnex Boston is the first of a global network of five knowledge outposts including San Francisco (2003) , Singapore (2004), China (2007) and India (2009). swissnex Boston along with the Office of Science and Technology of the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington D.C. and swissnex San Francisco constitute the official Swiss science network in North America.
For more information on Swissnex and the panel discussion: http://www.swissnexboston.org
DAVID HERMAN JR. ARTIST'S TALK & EXHIBITION
APRIL 7, 2012 - David Herman Jr. will talk about his ongoing work to document the African Diaspora of the Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor in conjunction with his exhibition ETCHED IN THE EYES, The Spirit of a People Called Gullah Geechee at Edward Crutchfield Center for Integrated Studies Gallery at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A son of the Gullah Geechee people, Herman's vivid and moving images provide the audience an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the people and culture of the low country and sea islands off the eastern coast of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
The exhibition runs April 5 - June 29. Artist's talk Tuesday, April 10 at 6:30 PM in the Crutchfield Gallery.
For more information visit: davidherman.com or call 704-378-1178
BETSY DAMON FEATURED ON DAILY GOOD
April 4, 2012 - Artist Betsy Damon's Chinese Living Water Garden is the subject of a recent article on the inspirational news site, Daily Good. Stretching along the Yangtze River it is the first municipal living water garden in the world. Damon's artistic system of natural ponds, filters and flowforms cleans water in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan. Damon's work will be featured on the MAP website later this month, in the meantime you can read about her work in China by visiting the Daily Good Site.
http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4958
REBECCA CARTER VIDEO INCLUDED THE MOBILE ARCHIVE
March 30, 2012 - REBECCA CARTER VIDEO COLLABORATION WITH ANDREA GOLDMAN, LIEDER OF THE PACT INCLUDED THE MOBILE ARCHIVE
The Mobile Archive, initiated in 2007, is a sister project of the video archive at the Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon, Israel. The archive is presented as a video library in a gallery space with viewing stations, at which visitors can watch chosen selections. Video screenings curated from the collection will engage both university students and the general public. At the end of the exhibition, the VAC will add twenty-five works to the archive. So far, the archive has traveled to Hamburg, Sao Paulo, Basel, Zagreb, Milan, and many other international locations.
The Mobile Archive primarily consists of videos by Israeli artists such as Yael Bartana, Gilad Ratman, and Keren Cytter, but also includes political video works by the non-governmental organization B'Tselem and activist scholars and journalists like Ariella Azoulay, Miki Kraftsman, and Avi Mugrabi. In addition, the international institutions that have hosted the archive have contributed works, including those by Artur Zmijewski (Poland), Adrian Paci (Albania), Yoshua Okon (Mexico), Christian Jankowski (Germany), Shilpa Gupta (India), and Daniel Bozhkov (Bulgaria), which have been contributed by the international institutions that hosted the archive.
Rebecca Carter, whose "Sinage Workst" is a part of MAP writes: “Lieder of the Pact” includes appropriated YouTube footage of the 1960s girl band, The Shangri-Las, performing for television. With homophonous English sub-titles we reconstruct their “Leader of the Pack” as our “Lieder of the Pact.” Where the original song connects romance and rebellion within a constrained matrix of gender and social relations, we re-imagine it to reveal love transformed into desire for knowledge, a fight against nihilism, and the possibility of new ways of reading old things that hide in plain sight in the original. Originally this video was part of an exhibition, FeedbackFeedbackLoopLoop, with twelve collaborative call and response drawing triptychs – our response to reading Alain Badiou’s The Theory of the Subject, together.
UPCOMING LECTURES BY THE HARRISONS
March 22, 2012 - MAP participants Helen and Newton Harrison will be speaking at 4th State of Water Symposium at UCLA. Produced in conjunction with the 4th State of Water: From Macro to Micro exhibition at CoCA Torun the symposium takes place on March 22 (World Water Day) and March 23, 2012 at the California NanoSystems Institute. The opening keynotes will be given by renowned science writer Dr. Philip Ball, author of “Why Water is Weird” and Gerald Pollack from the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, speaking on the “Fourth Phase of Water”.
For more information including a complete schedule visit: http://artscicenter.com/waterbodies-ex
As a part of the University of Arizona School of Art Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series, The Harrisons will give a talk titled "The Force Majeure - The Peninsula of Europe, The Tibetan Plateau and Sierra Nevada." The Force Majeure is featured in Projects link.
Tuesday, March 27, 5:30 PM
Center of Creative Photography
University of Arizona, Tucson
520-621-7968
http://www.uanews.org/node/45300
Image: Peninsula Europe: The Force Majeure, 2008
OTO HUDCEC EXHIBITING IN MARTIN, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
March 17, 2012 - Oto Hudec is part of a group exhibition at Turčianska gallery in Martin, Slovak RepublicTitled "Maľ'ba dovnútra / Painting inside" the exhibition features young Slovak painters, all graduates of The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, who share common artistic approaches to their work. Curator Lucia Miklošková writes, "Alienation, loneliness, the spirit of the place, man´s relationship to the environment, these are the themes that connect these authors."In addition to painting in a classical tradition, Hudec (who is a part of MAP's creative team) often works in Social Practice. Details about his project, "Instrument for Listening" which will be produced in the Amazon can be found in the Projects link.For more information about the exhibition:http://malbadovnutra.blogspot.comImage: Oto Hudec, Black Skier, 25 x 35 cm, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2008THE 20TH ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL IN WASHINGTON DC
March 14, 2012 - The Environmental Film Festival in The Nation's Capital, from March 13 - 25, 2012 is dedicated to advancing environmental understanding through the power of film. It is the United State’s largest showcase of environmental film, attracting an audience of over 30,000. Beyond Washington, DC, the Festival has launched a movement, serving as a model for environmental film festivals across the country and around the world.
This year's festival includes a screening of Beyond Pollution on March 16 at 12:00 noon, a penetrating expose on the worst manmade environmental disaster in America's history: The BP oil spill. Traveling thousands of miles across the most severely impacted areas of the Gulf; the Beyond Pollution team interviewed key experts, BP contractors, government officials, and others who were directly affected. This powerful film unveils what really happened, why, and who benefited.
For information about the film festival: http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org
For more information about Beyond Pollution: http://www.beyondpollutionthefilm.com
2012 UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF COOPERATIVES
March 12, 2012 - The International Year of Co-operatives (IYC) celebrates business that is focused on human need where the members who own and govern the business collectively enjoy the benefits with the purpose of profit going to all stakeholders
The United Nations has dedicated a website and is producing several events and activities around the world that investigate, promote and strengthen cooperatives."The International Year of Cooperatives is intended to raise public awareness of the invaluable contributions of cooperative enterprises to poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration. The Year will also highlight the strengths of the cooperative business model as an alternative means of doing business and furthering socioeconomic development." From the UN's IYC website.For more information visit: http://social.un.org/coopsyearTHOUGHTS INSPIRED BY THE IRANIAN FILM "A SEPARATION"
March 4, 2012 - This past weekend I went to see Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, which recently won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. What struck me about the picture, besides the fact that it is a masterpiece of filmmaking raising many philosophical and moral questions, was how much it speaks to our common humanity. Tightly woven, emotionally powerful scenes such as an adult son breaking down in tears as he bathes his elderly father who suffers from dementia and one of two children, from families in conflict, joyfully playing together reflects a shared inner humanity that is deeper than ethnic, religious or political boundaries. The role of art as an instigator of this awareness is nothing new, but at a time of heightened international tension over Iran’s nuclear program and debates over the effectiveness of diplomacy versus military strikes, it seems to me that it is as important as ever for us to consciously think in terms of one humanity and recognize that each of us is part of a greater whole.
Energy follows thought and the power of our thinking to envision a world into being where unity, harmony, cooperation, sharing and understanding are the norm should not be underestimated or scorned. The purpose of this thinking is not only for our own, individual benefit, but also for the benefit of humanity as a whole. Each of us has the power to be a mental agent of change. As John Perkins writes in his book, The World As You Dream It:
‘To create a new world we must first create a new dream’
Providing a platform and support for new dreams and ideas is an essential part of MAP’s mission. Over the upcoming weeks we will be adding several new projects and expanding the resources link on the MAP website. Check in when you can to see how creative dreamers in the arts are manifesting their visions for positive change on our planet.
With Warm Greetings and Much Thanks for your continued interest and support,
Janeil Engelstad
ANDES SPROUTS RESIDENCY
March 1, 2012 - The Andes Sprouts residency program invites artists, inventors and farmers from around the world to participate creatively within the Catskill, New York region’s working landscape. ASsociety residency program supports the inception, creation and presentation of original art projects encompassing new media and bio-art. The ASS residency facilitates this cross disciplinary collaboration with a mobile residency program that travels to host farms in the Catskills. Built on a trailer frame, the residency cabin periodically will be moved to different host farms allowing the residents to create projects that interact with different forms of agriculture (for example, produce, livestock, agroforestry) in different years and seasons.
Applications for the summer 2012 residency are due March 6
For more information: http://andessproutsresidency.wordpress.com/residency-call-out-summer-2011
PROVISIONS LIBRARY RESEARCH RESIDENCIES
February 27, 2012 - Provisions Library, a non-profit instigator of arts and social change in Washington DC, is launching research residencies that investigate futures for creative civil society. The program will bring together four residents (artists, scholars, activists, and practitioners) for research-based projects that explore and extend social change themes. Participants will gain exposure to policies, practices, and politics while exploring transformative social imaginations and strategies. The rapidly changing urban and institutional landscape of Washington DC will serve as a platform, model, and resource to propose and prepare social futures. A letter of interest is due on March 1.
For more information: http://provisionslibrary.com/?page_id=14925
VOICES FROM THE CENTER / CZECH SLOVAK EDITION OF FLASH ART
Feb 25, 2012 - The Spring 2012 Czech Slovak edition of Flash Art magazine has reviewed Voices From the Center a project and exhibition produced by MAP Founding Director, Janeil Engelstad. The exhibition, which was at threewalls in Chicago, was based on Engelstad's oral history project of the same name and included the work of artists from Central Europe. Oto Hudec and Matej Vakula, who have projects featured on the MAP web site and are also a part of MAP's organizational team, each created new work for the exhibition. For more information: http://three-walls.org/programs/threewallsx/voices-from-the-center.php
Image: Installation shot of Janeil Engelstad's piece for Voices From the Center at threewalls, Chicago, 2011
SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL
February 21, 2012 - If you are anywhere near New York City this weekend get yourself to the Cantor Film Center at NYU for this wonderful program. Check out the web site, link below, to learn about the speciific events - JE
SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL
Artists and Scientists Ponder the Aesthetics of Evolution
AN ALL-DAY WONDERCABINET
Guest Curated by David Rothenberg
Saturday February 25, 2012
Why did the peacock’s tail so trouble Charles Darwin? Natural selection could not explain it, so he had to contrive a whole new theory of sexual selection, which posited that certain astonishingly beautiful traits became preferred even when not exactly useful, simply because they appealed to the opposite sex, and specifically so in each case. And yet the parallels in what gets preferred at different levels of life suggest that nature may in fact favor certain kinds of patterns over others. Visually, the symmetrical; colorwise, the contrasting and gaudy; displaywise, the gallant and extreme. Soundwise, the strong contrast between low note and high, between fast rhythm and the long clear tone. For that matter, plenty of beauty in nature would seem to arise for reasons other than mere sexual selection: for example, the mysterious inscriptions on the backs of seashells, or the compounding geometric symmetries of microscopic diatoms, or the live patterns pulsating across the bodies of octopus and squid.
Humans see such things and find them astonishingly beautiful: are we wrong to experience Nature in such terms? Far greater than our grandest edifices and epic tales, Nature itself nevertheless seems entirely without purposeful self-consciousness or self-awareness. Meanwhile, though we ourselves are as nothing compared to it, we still seem possessed of a parallel need to create. So: can we in fact create our way into better understanding of the role of beauty in the vast natural world? David Rothenberg recently published a book on these themes, Survival of the Beautiful (Bloomsbury, 2011), and many of the protagonists he encountered on his quest will join him on stage at the Cantor Film Center to debate the question of whether nature’s beauty is actual, imaginary, useful, excessive, or perhaps even entirely beside the point.
Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th Street, NYC
Free & Open to the Public (first-come, first-in)for more information: http://nyihumanities.org/event/survival-of-the-beautiful
GREENMEME DESIGN
February 17, 2012 - Greenmeme Design, whose River Liver water remediation project (pictured) will be posted to the MAP website soon will be presenting their proof on concept for the San Jose Climate Clock Initiative to the public at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA on Wednesday, Feb 22, 6:00 - 9:00 PM.
One of three finalist teams from around the world, Greenmeme's Freya Bardell and Brian Howe have been working together with Brent Bucknum on the proposal for nearly two years. The Climate Clock will be a work of art that incorporates Silicon Valleys measurement, data management, and communications technologies to help people understand climate change, while encouraging them to continue reducing their carbon footprint on planet Earth.
All three finalist teams will present their proof on concepts at Montalvo.
For more information: http://climateclock.wordpress.com
REBECCA CARTER AT DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
Feb 13, 2012 - Rebecca Carter whose Sinage Works is a part of MAP has an installation at the Dallas Museum of Art. About the installation she writes:
"A multitude of blue cloud-like, cat-like thready eyeballs gaze down from underneath the stairwell at passersby. The work addresses the human need to see and be seen that relates to the spectacle of fashion. The need to be seen is not only the need to be seen as object, but to be held in a loving gaze by another. The Eyeballs from Outer Space gaze continuously, neither blinking nor turning away. The arrangement of the Eyeballs in broken blue lines relates formally to the blue sailor stripes to which Gaultier returns over and over to re-invent: multiple horizons, sky-like and ocean-like.
The work is made out of thread through a process of machine stitching onto a dissolvable matrix. The dissolvable matrix holds the stitches in place until enough linking occurs for the drawing to cohere. The matrix dissolves in water leaving only a network of threads. In the fashion industry this process is called “free lace.”
The Eyeballs From Outerspace where originally conceived as a part of the installation, The Supposed Object.
Link to Eyeballs From Outerspace on Rebecca Carter's website.
http://www.rebeccacarter.org/archives/3536
YOUTH RISING FOR PEACE SUMMITT
Feb 9, 2012 - The Youth Rising for Peace Summitt is the first ever 24-hour global telesummit, Feb 11 - 12, 2012, featuring young adult voices for peace from almost every time zone. Presented by the Shift Network and other global partners, the telesummit will introduce a full spectrum of peacebuilding activities - from inner peace to international peace. The event is about the participants who will gather virtually to hear and interact with dozens of peace builders - from New Zealand, Japan, Israel/Palestine, Costa Rica and every place in-between - all talking about the ideas, programs and projects that inspire them.
For more information and to register: http://youthrisingforpeace.com/feature/The-Peace-Alliance
Participation is free
HELEN AND NEWTON HARRISON
February 4, 2012 - Helen and Newton Harrison, among the leading pioneers of the eco-art movement and a part of MAP will be participating in a panel discussion at the Athenaeum in La Jolla, California on Thursday, Feb 9 at 7:30 PM. Titled, "Art and the Crossover Phenomena" the panel also includes artist and writer Suzanne Lacy and Victoria Vesna, Media artist, author, Director of UCLA Arts/Sci Center. Look for The Harrison's work to be posted to the MAP website soon. For more information on the panel discussion visit: http://www.ljathenaeum.org/lectures.html
Photo: Helen and Newton Harrison, Installation Shot, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts 2009
EARTH FORUM BERLIN
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January 27, 2012 - Earth Forum is a stimulating and productive way of working in small groups to explore how we live together on this planet. But it's not just another talk shop! Earth Forum is a process of creative imagining and exchange that enables us to go beyond swapping opinions, arguments and debates. Earth Forum's unique process enhances two important capacities: the capacity to imagine and to actively listen.
Earth Forum is a process in which everyone can contribute and participate. We invite you to donate a few hours of your time to this social sculpture process that opens up a space for working creatively with conflicting agendas, emphasizes the connections between inner and outer work (work within yourself) and highlights our capacities as agents of change to shape a humane and ecologically just future.
Earth Forum Berlin – One forum lasts 2 to 3 hours and involves 8-12 participants, there are two forums a day: Monday – Friday, 20th – 24th of February, 11am – 2pm and 3pm – 6pm
Earth Forum Berlin has been developed by University of the Trees-DE and with Citizens Art—Berlin 2012.
Citizen Art Days is a 10 day festival including workshops, lectures, discussions and city excursions with and from artists who are interested in sustainability, economy and living together in the public space of Berlin.
For more information:
DAWN WELESKI EXHIBITION AT STANFORD
January 20, 2112 - Dawn Weleski, whose project Conflict Kitchen (a collaboration with Jon Rubin) will soon be featured on MAP's website is part of an exhibition opening on January 20 at Stanford in Palo Alto, CA. In addition to work created for gallery exhibition Ms. Weleski has created a sound piece. The Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace on campus will play anthems from the recent revolutions in the Middle East, curated by citizens from each country and transposed by a UC Santa Cruz and Israeli composer for the carillon in the tower of the Hoover. The songs will be played over the next year during the first anniversary of each revolution, beginning in February.
Image: Hoover Tower, Stanford University campusNEW YEAR'S GREETINGS FROM MAP
Each New Year contains within its time-span unforeseen social and political events, personal joys and challenges, and change. While we cannot know all that will happen to us in 2012, we can set intentions and goals that are supported by our spirit, will, energy and work. At MAP, in 2012, we intend to produce web content and programs that contributes to the well being of humanity and the planet. Our vision for the year is one of inclusion, hope, and positive change. We do not know how big or small the changes from our efforts will be, but we do know that with your support and by working together we can have a positive impact that ripples outward beyond our individual lives. Thank you for visiting the Make Art with Purpose website. The MAP team wishes you a creative and joyful 2012.
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