This is a link to Advisor Darryl Wellington's performance reenactment of the life and times of the great Black American writer, Richard Wright, the author of Native Son and Black Boy. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10lvjBa2qV-OanC0bULxxIy7Um8KCkmPc/view
Summary: Last year TINYisPOWERFUL participated in the 5th annual Charleston Zine Fest (2022) – an initiative started by Leigh Sabish of Sarden Press that was primarily organized by Sage Graham this year. During this event artists, zine makers and a diverse set of TINY...
Season 2 - Ep. 1 - Collective Identity w/ Victoria and Rayn LISTEN BELOW Charleston Rhizome Collective · Season 2 - Ep. 1 - Collective Identity w/ Victoria and Rayn FULL EPISODE Episode 1 | A Reflection on Collective Identity w/ Victoria & Rayn Thought Question:...
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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. Click here to watch the film and others:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By: Jean-Marie Mauclet Last week, LaSheia sent Gwylène a newspaper article in French, from the popular science magazine Sciences et Avenir, entitled: l'ADN ancien redonne de leur identité à des esclaves africains vendus en Amérique du Nord. This translated to English...
This is a link to Advisor Darryl Wellington's performance reenactment of the life and times of the great Black American writer, Richard Wright, the author of Native Son and Black Boy. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10lvjBa2qV-OanC0bULxxIy7Um8KCkmPc/view
Art and Making as Tools for a Visionary See PDF file: CLICK HERE TO READ A CONVERSATION BETWEEN VICTORIA AND JEAN-MARIE READ MORE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ARTISTS HERE
Summary: Last year TINYisPOWERFUL participated in the 5th annual Charleston Zine Fest (2022) – an initiative started by Leigh Sabish of Sarden Press that was primarily organized by Sage Graham this year. During this event artists, zine makers and a diverse set of TINY...
It was in 2016 when I subconsciously realized I was non-binary. That was the first time I hopped on Spotify. Even at that time "them" gave the option of picking non-binary as one’s gender. I felt (at the time) strangely affirmed but because of the ridicule I had...
The generations after us are the ones who will continue carrying out the work of improving our world when we are gone. So during these times we must balance our efforts between the current work and making sure that they are set up to continue sustaining themselves and...
Hey y'all, it's Rayn! With the organic shift from an apprentice of conNECKtedTOO to a creative assistant of TINYisPOWERFUL there were, and still are, many skills I needed to learn. Facilitation is one of those developing skills that I have some experience in but would...
WE MUST VOTE It has been months in the making. That is what gives this essay its value... Value, you said? Which value? exchange value usage value market value abstract value? added value surplus value resale value or symbolic value hidden value personal value...
Art and Making as Tools for a Visionary See PDF file: Click here to read A Conversation RAYN with JEMAGWGA For the TINYisPOWERFUL collective to be viable, it needs to keep in close contact with its outside partners and supporters. This is the purpose of our NEWSLETTER...
“Art is everything” is about seeing all of life and beyond as an art. While “a zine can be anything,” engulfs the concept that any topic and set of materials can be used to share our perceptions of the world with others. Both of these statements carry with them the...
by Jean-Marie Mauclet Something monstrously tragic happened in Uvalde Texas on May 24th, 2022. The latest school mass shooting (at the time), which claimed the death of yet an other 21 Americans: two adults and 19 children. Ten days earlier, 10 daily shoppers were...
This vote against WOMEN and its very timing, right when we are reaching to the heart of the January 6th total moral corruption, is an insult to the people of Charleston, America and the world. Along with the vote on gun violence, this attempt to consolidate MALE...
as published in the Santa Fe Reporter By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington April 27, 2022 April is National Poetry Month. Of course, to my mind, National Poetry Month, like Black History Month, is a bit of a redundancy, since every month is an occasion to revisit art and...
November 13, 2019 essay published in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Community Development Innovation Review documenting some of the lessons learned during the Strategic Planning art work performed by Significant Developments for the Jackson Medical Mall as...
It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Wim Roefs, one of 701 Center for Contemporary Art’s founders and always one of its fiercest advocates. He will be missed by everyone who believes in the value of arts and artists for our communities. But most of...
Learning for Justice: https://www.learningforjustice.org/ Social Justice Standards Facilitator Guide PDF: https://www.learningforjustice.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/TT-Social-Justice-Standards-Facilitator-Guide-WEB_0.pdf CCSD Cultural Competency Policy -...
"Property matters. It's more than just a parcel of land. It's also window to the past that tells the story of a family, a community, a way of life. Knowing your family's history and culture creates a sense of place and belonging. The loss of heirs' property has impact...
l would just like to uplift the name of Reverend Clementa Pinckney I heard him give a speech about the first Memorial Day in Charleston for the first time in May of that year but by June he was dead. We also lift up the names of Cynthia Hurd, Reverend Sharonda Coleman...
In-person space is limited so please RSVP to TINYisPOWERFUL@gmail.com TINYisPOWERFUL at its core is process-oriented and prioritizes a journey toward an unknown destination or series of destinations we can create together. Thus we are edge dwellers who utilize and...
Who are YOU ALL named or not?... Guess!!! YOU, my co-workers, my mentors, my friends, elders, fellow travelers and family; YOU, who influenced me and whom I may have influenced; YOU in pain, or who have passed away too early or at least before we could converse...
The diary of TINYisPOWERFUL was started on 10-19-2017. Not a chronological history of the Charleston Rhizome Collective's work. More like a personal view of what it brought to me and what I contributed to it: thoughts, references, background, sometimes the experiences...
1984: originally, it was an art project conceived by Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet, a “conceptual and information art" project. When it became a real business , downtown Charleston, an eatery with healthy, basic, affordable French food, they called...
Jean-Marie Mauclet: Art and Making as Tools for a Visionary See PDF file: KIT LONEY on Jean-Marie Mauclet For the TINYisPOWERFUL collective to be viable, it needs to keep in close contact with its outside partners and supporters. This is the purpose of our NEWSLETTER...
