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. Click here to watch the film and others: https://www.tinyispowerful.com/films/
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 […]
Anthropology – Cultural Impact – Cultural Budget at the service of Social Justice
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 […]
RICHARD WRIGHT
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
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JEAN-MARIE AND VICTORIA
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
