Keyne and Kirsten Monson founded Elevita in May 2010 to help artisans in developing countries find a greater world market for their products. Dowser: What's something concrete and tangible you've learned in the last three months? Kirsten Monson: In the last three months, ...
We often see the arts as only fit for museums, galleries, and film festivals, cloistered in halls only for the intellectual elite. But the arts can help build a nation, or in the case of Afghanistan, are rebuilding a nation, employing its people, ...
Artists have long enjoyed the creative space at the intersection of social networking and technology, using the Internet to generate new forms of art and more engaging platforms to experience art. While funding has increased for these kinds of projects in the professional ...
Can writers promote causes for social change, and should they? Tracy Kidder is author of numerous essays and books of fiction and nonfiction, and is recently best known for Mountains Beyond Mountains, his story of the life and work of Paul Farmer, founder ...
The photo shows a wall-mounted clock with chunks of glass missing between one and three o’clock. "This photo depicts a broken clock in a classroom. It shows how time is lost and how simple things are broken, [and how] a simple thing can ...
The best social innovations can get stalled in the ideas-phase without funds to get started. In this series social entrepreneurs discuss fundraising: the strategies, pitfalls and sweat spent on the way to getting backing and raising money. Raw Art Works ignites the desire ...
At its best, public art can transform urban landscapes from utilitarian to thought-provoking and give neighborhoods a renewed sense of ownership. Got an idea for a successful public art project? Architecture for Humanity Studio (AFHny Studio) might have the space for it. AFYny ...
Why are gender-based issues primarily considered “women’s” issues? Josie Lehrer founded the Men’s Story Project (MSP) to rethink this faulty truism. Intended for local replication, the MSP uses performance and dialogue to create public spaces for men to share their experience of male ...
Eight years ago, the human rights activist and award-winning filmmaker Ronit Avni conducted over 475 interviews with Israeli and Palestinian activists to find out what kind of support they needed to advance peace. The overwhelming answer was to become more visible. The pockets ...
Can public art projects effectively draw attention to areas of a city that need change? Cyclists from Broken City Labs believe so: they set up these large, brightly-colored letters reading “MAKE THIS BETTER” to call attention to Ontario's "dead-zone" neighborhood known as "Ripper's ...