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This artist's work re-imagines Latinx domestic spaces in response to what has been perceived as their "accessibility" or hospitality. The author recreated home scenes from the South Bronx but with caution tape, impediments, etc. to bar entry and use from outsiders.
-Chris Lopez-Cepero

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Zanele Muholi uses Envison, Observe, and Engage and Persist to travel across South Africa photographing trans women to be included in a gallery show. With their photos on exhibition, the women are also invited to participate and write their experiences onto the walls of the gallery, in order to Express and Reflect, as well as for their humanity to be seen and heard.

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Zanele Muholi
i feel like the artist's project really included all Habits of Mind at different stages of the project.

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All of them!
She definitely knows her craft, envisions, persists, expresses, reflects and stretches and explores. She brought in her models to the opening to participate in the art world.
Nibblett

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Raul de Nieves and Colin Self Harmonize 

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Raul de Nieves and Colin Self Harmonize 

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They both use Stretch and Explore and Express when creating and performing their Opera "The Fool".

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Engage and persist, stretch and explore, observe. -Julia M.

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Doreen uses Reflect, Engage and Persist and Develop Craft in her artwork. She Reflects on the attitude towards tattoos, the pain suffered in history, and how that pain creates art when tattooing. She Engages and Persists with her creativity, symbolism towards her own culture and way of thinking and how that can be perceived in her art form. And finally she Develops Craft when she talks about how tattooing is different from other art forms because it needs to be done correctly. It is a permanent form of art every time she does her craft.

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Doreen has developed their craft to allow others to express themselves, envision new identities and futures, and to engage and persist in resilience and healing.

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Fashion Show- Creative Growth Art Center

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Fashion Show- Creative Growth Art Center

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This was moving. Participants demonstrated a lot of joy and community! Also clearly these studio habits.
Express
Engage and Persist
Understand the Art World
Envision
Stretch and Explore
Develop Craft
Observe
Reflect

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Observe
Envision
Express
Engage and Persist
Understand the Art World

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Really fascinating! Translation as art. Ortega demonstrated "observe," "engage & persist," "envision," "stretch & explore" and "engage with art world," when he recognized the need that there were no contemporary art texts in Spanish and fulfilled the need by translating these texts and publishing these translations.

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From his Mexico City studio, Damián Ortega recounts his early career as a cartoonist and his struggles to find Spanish-language resources on contemporary art as a young artist. Given the 1979 interview Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp by his colleague and mentor, Gabriel Orozco, Ortega was challenged to grasp the content in English. Ortega asked an artist friend to translate the book into Spanish and the process morphed the text's original content into something else profound. "It's beautiful because at the end it's Duchamp completely out of context," says Ortega. "He becomes like a Mexican."

From this experience, Ortega founded Alias, an independent book publisher that translates contemporary art texts into Spanish, distributing and publishing books otherwise unavailable in Spanish-speaking countries. "My generation didn't have any of this information about contemporary art. It was a time when we didn't have the internet, we didn't have cell phones. We used to share information through photocopies, through books." Ortega explains the process of translating, recontextualizing, and appropriating as an opportunity to reexamine knowledge and ways of thinking from different perspectives. "In the end, every country gives some special way of thinking."

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Producer: Ian Forster. Interview: Deborah Dickson. Editor: Morgan Riles. Camera: Hatuey Viveros. Sound: Kexolli Kwauhtlinxan. Artwork Courtesy: Damián Ortega, Alias Editorial, & Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Special Thanks: Museo Jumex, Olga Rodríguez, & Marek Wolfryd.

Extended Play is presented by Alta Art. Additional support provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the Art21 Contemporary Council; and by individual contributors.

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Damián Ortega uses objects from his everyday life-Volkswagen Beetle cars, Day of the Dead posters, locally-sourced corn tortillas-to make spectacular sculptures which suggest stories of both mythic import and cosmological scale. In many of the artist's sculptures, vernacular objects are presented in precise arrangements-often suspended from the ceiling or as part of mechanized systems-that become witty representations of diagrams, solar systems, words, buildings, and faces. These shifts in perception are not just visual but also cultural, as the artist draws out the social history of the objects featured in his sculptures, films, and performances.

"Appropriation is a statement because it gives the chance to recontextualize knowledge."

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She uses engage and persist, envision, express, and stretch and explore in her use of color in her paintings.

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Engage and Persist
Envision
Express
Stretch and Explore
Observe

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Express and Reflect

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The artist uses sketches to inform paintings. "Engage and Persist," "Reflect" and "Stretch and Explore" are three SHoM used in the process.

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David Goldblatt: a Monument to Appartheid in Fietas

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David Goldblatt: a Monument to Appartheid in Fietas

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The photographs were taken as a way to Observe. They Express a feeling of abandoned town, but also Envision what it once was.

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Bringing Contemporary Art into the Classroom with Art21 Educators

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Bringing Contemporary Art into the Classroom with Art21 Educators

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Engage and persist, express, envision, reflect, stretch and explore

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Develop craft, envision, express, stretch and explore, engage and persist.

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Envision,  express, observe, reflect

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This artist exhibits "Express" and "Reflect"

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