Interactive Tours/Performance
INTERACTIVE TOUR/PERFORMANCE by Anastasia KETCHEN June 6th, 2019 is a day I believe will be imprinted on the minds of many for a long time. On this day ideas were exchanged between persons that might not have intentionally crossed paths before, relationships were created, voices were heard, stories were […]
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Artwashing
ARTWASHING: A term for what observers see as the past and present role of public art and creative placemaking in priming markets for the benefit of developers and outside investors, raising price points and enriching municipalities, but displacing incumbent residents, often communities of color…the process often “exacerbates class differences, encourages unwanted neighborhood changes, and even […]
Newsletters are Alive and Well!
More like magazines than eblasts — the TINYisPOWERFUL longform newsletters are distributed to a list of more than 1,000 people! If you are not already subscribed to receive these periodic updates you can click here to sign-up – In the meantime, if you’re wondering why our newsletter open rate is so high (historically sometimes as […]
Film Mini Lessons
In April 2024 TINYisPOWERFUL with Yo Art and filmmaker/multi-media artist Daniel Green launched the second iteration of a film mini lesson course in collaboration with middle school students at James Simons Montessori school (a public school located in downtown Charleston, SC). This is a continuation of a project launched in Fall 2023 which resulted in […]
“Hood Ball”
An original short film by middle school students of James Simons Public Montessori in collaboration with TINYisPOWERFUL, YoArt!, and filmmaker/multi-media artist Daniel Green in the fall 2023 school semester mini lessons. See “Hood Ball” and other films here.
Israel-Palestine: IT TAKES TWO TO HOPE
October 19, 2023 – from Jean-Marie’s diary Israel-Palestine: IT TAKES TWO TO HOPE Twelve days after the breach of Israel’s invulnerability, I am still learning further about the massacre of more than a thousand Jewish citizens by the Hamas and the capture of more than one hundred Jewish hostages. I am reading about the horrible […]
A Reflection on WWWUNDERKAMMER & Beeple Studios | August 3, 2023
In about three weeks time I was able to view both WWWUNDERKAMMER, an exhibit by artist Carla Gannis at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and attend A Community Night by Beeple at his studio in North Charleston. Both experiences touched on aspects of the digital / virtual world and in their own ways add […]
Good Trouble with Monsters
by: Kit Loney This past spring, I had the opportunity to bring monsters from our TinyIsPowerful “Good Trouble” workshops to a couple of North Charleston schools. This lesson, “Good Trouble,” began in 2021 with a question during a conversation with Pam: “If racism were a monster, what would it look like?” Playing off that idea, […]
Union Pier
By Jean-Marie Mauclet Regardless of the way the State Port Authority was offered the Union Pier property free of any reverter clause, the City of Charleston should regard “this once-in-a-century opportunity” as an opportunity for all citizens, a common opportunity, a common. The manner in which commons are treated is a political issue. A people’s […]
