Near the bakery lived someone who had bought their bread at that bakery. They were terribly distraught at the violent acts being committed in their hometown and decided to speak up. The day after the bombing, they entered the square where the bomb had exploded, sat down, and began to play the cello.
You see, this person was a cellist with the opera orchestra in Sarajevo. Music held a special place for them. And it was through their music that that they chose to speak to anyone who would listen about what had happened in the bakery line.
For the next 22 days — one day for each person who had died — the cellist came to the square and played the same piece of music. They called this music "a daily musical prayer for peace. When they spoke up with their cello, people listened. She arranged for a performance of 22 cellists to play at 22 different public places for 22 days.
This performance echoed the musical prayer from Sarajevo and was Ms. Brother's way of speaking up. Both of these acts came to the attention of a young boy in Indiana. The boy thought it was important for people to know that none of us who call for peace and reconciliation are truly alone.
For 22 days Seattle remembered of the thousands of people dying each month as the war continued. The sculpture was taken to the White House during the Clinton Administration, and the cellists played for 22 days in front of the Red Cross headquarters, the Holocaust museum, the Senate Rotunda. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
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Wishes My Wishes for You What do you wish for yourself? Things to Wish Upon Bored or Sad? Starting April, , the culturally diverse city of Sarajevo succumbed to brutal war after the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Situated in Sarajevo valley and surrounded by five major mountains of the Dinaric Alps mountain range, the city was subject to constant sniper fire and bombings. Thousands of civilians were killed. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced from their homes.
On May 27, news spread throughout central Sarajevo that a bakery had received a shipment of flour. In the field of public art McGehearty's project in Fort Worth was recognized by the Americans for the Arts as one of the forty best projects in Tina McIntire was born in Duncan, Oklahoma in At the age of four, she and her family moved to Fort Worth where she resides today. McIntire creates richly colored mosaics that adorn private homes and professional businesses.
Her work is available at select local galleries and by private commission. Melito is a co-founder of Montage Imagers based in Fort Worth. She has completed numerous private and public art commissions. Lindsey has a background in graphic design and Enge is an accomplished mixed-media painter. Juan and Patricia Navarrete are a well-established artist team who frequently incorporate Native American and Southwestern symbolism into their work and have received awards and recognition for several public art projects.
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Newsum is a painter and printmaker with several successful public art projects under his belt. Floyd Newsum, Jr. David Newton, a classically trained sculptor in the European tradition, has dedicated his career to transforming ordinary African American people and forgotten historical moments into unforgettable, timeless monuments of beauty.
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Creative Machines is a group of visionary artists, engineers and fabricators doing world-class work for clients everywhere from their base in Tucson, AZ. We are a multi-disciplinary firm whose abilities span exhibition design, ball machine sculptures, and monumental public art.
Together they create monumental and human-scaled work that is beautiful while also yielding deeper rewards with continued interaction.
Their work is rooted in science, perception, and history. A self-taught abstract artist, his paintings have gained him regional recognition and have been included in group exhibitions in Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston and Chicago. O'Toole's work involves creating a "visual vocabulary" to communicate emotional or spiritual experiences and create new perceptions. Recent work deals with merging a stream of conscious painting approach with the constraint of intention, typified by design elements and standard drawing techniques.
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Born in Dover, Delaware, in , Michael began this lifelong pursuit as a student of painting and sculpture under Patrick Carter in Lancaster Ave. Christopher Janney is a pioneer in the field of sound art, merging architecture, sound, light and interactive technology. For 30 years, Janney has been blending music and light with the physical space in unexpected ways.
His work invites the public to engage and connect. Janney's work turns spectators into participants. He has created numerous permanent interactive sound and light installations attempting to make architecture more spontaneous and music more physical. PhenomenArts, Inc. Kris Pierce is an artist working in Dallas, Texas.
His work explores notions of power, value, and states of consciousness in the context of our modern digital world. Manuel Pulido is no stranger to the Northside.
His mark can be seen in various community murals including at Northside Library, in the Stockyards and soon along the river in a project initiated by the Tarrant Regional Water District. Quayola employs technology as a lens to explore the tensions and equilibriums between seemingly opposing forces: the real and artificial, figurative and abstract, old and new.
Constructing immersive installations, often at historically significant architectural sites, he engages with and reimagines canonical imagery through contemporary technology. Hellenistic sculpture, Old Master painting, and Baroque architecture are some of the historical aesthetics that serve as a point of departure for Quayola's abstract compositions. His varied practice also includes audiovisual performance, video, sculpture, and works on paper. The outcome of which is a thoughtful integration of art into public and private spaces within building architecture and the landscape.
Our work depends upon many different elements, orchestrated in a way in which the public is welcomed into and moved by the experience. Through a process that combines research and discovery with insight and experimentation, we design and create memorable destinations and exciting new places. Julie Richey has been creating mosaics for more than 20 years. Her custom residential and commercial installations can be found in the US, Italy, Spain, and Mexico.
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He describes his work as "experiential" as it uses extraordinary visual effects to create sites of experience where people can interact with one another. Norie Sato is an artist living in Seattle. Derived from site and context-driven ideas, her public work strives to add meaning and human touch to the built environment.
Cam Schoepp is a Fort Worth-based artist. Bart Shaw, an architect with a firm based in Fort Worth, Texas. His work exhibits strong conceptual expression that resonates through his competition, commercial, retail, and residential practice.
Etty is the lead artist on the project. As a team, Kevin and Etty have complimentary, strengths and experiences outside traditional venues in the fields of Art, Architecture and Landscape Architecture. As the process unfolded, the lead for each task is assigned according to the individual strengths. Design Development is an area where they especially enjoy collaborating.
Etty, with her experience and built work in public art projects, will lead, however, sharing ideas, precedents and problem solutions is mutual. As they refined their ideas, Etty concentrated on the Public Art piece, while Kevin focused on Landscape Architecture. Smith currently resides in Austin, Texas.
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Stanley's background as a licensed architect enables his practice to take on the variety of particular challenges presented by multi-faceted projects. James Surls is an internationally recognized artist. His sculptures, drawings and prints, which reflect his unique sensibility to natural forms, are in major art museums and public and private collections throughout the world. Born in Terrell, Texas, Surls built a career in the s and s as a Texas artist, before relocating to a Carbondale, Colorado ranch.
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