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By conNECKted TOO / May 6, 2024

 TINYisPOWERFUL is fiscally sponsored by Alternate ROOTS, a 501(c)3 organization

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Newsletters are Alive and Well!

By conNECKted TOO / April 24, 2024

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 […]

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“Hood Ball”

By conNECKted TOO / January 24, 2024

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: https://www.tinyispowerful.com/films/

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Film Mini Lessons

By conNECKted TOO / April 24, 2024

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 […]

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A Reflection on WWWUNDERKAMMER & Beeple Studios | August 3, 2023

By conNECKted TOO / November 15, 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 […]

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Good Trouble with Monsters

By conNECKted TOO / November 15, 2023

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, […]

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Union Pier

By conNECKted TOO / March 27, 2023

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 […]

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Anthropology – Cultural Impact – Cultural Budget at the service of Social Justice

By conNECKted TOO / March 27, 2023

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 is “Ancient DNA gives back part of their identity to African slaves sold in […]

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A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JEAN-MARIE AND VICTORIA

By conNECKted TOO / January 4, 2023

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

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WE MUST VOTE: TINY IS POWERFUL

By conNECKted TOO / November 2, 2022

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 transformative value poetic value As an artist, of course, […]

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