community activism

See Potential: helping us all envision the rebirth of abandoned buildings on the South Side.

See Potential in what’s around us. That’s the goal of photographer Emily Schiffer’s See Potential initiative: affixing huge weatherproof photographic works to undervalued community assets. It’s a great idea that can help harness the public imagination for the greater good. It’s the sort of greater good that Schiffer always hoped her art would serve. She…

February 1, 2012

ayanacontreras

Arts & Culture, Commentary, Lack Versus Fat, Photography

Center for Urban Transformation, Chicago, community activism, community building, emily schiffer, gladys’ luncheonette chicago, Kickstarter, lack versus fat, Orrin Williams, photography, see potential, urban planning
ReMake Estate: Brand New Day.

ReMake Estate is a really cool project going on in Gary (Indiana) in which an abandoned house on 24th and Massachutsetts will be reborn as a meeting space and a community garden. The project is being organized in conjunction with interested local community groups and Australian-based artists Keg de Souza and Zanny Begg. The artists (from…

July 19, 2010

ayanacontreras

Art, Arts & Culture, Jive Culture, the Goodness

community activism, community building, gary IN, Keg de Souza, Michael Jackson, ReMake Estate, The Wiz, urbanism, you are here, Zanny Begg