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RedLine Contemporary Art Center | Denver, Colorado

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RedLine Contemporary Art Center | Denver, Colorado

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We are located in Denver's historic Five Points neighborhood. Visit our galleries and resident studios and check our calendar for events and opportunities.

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its a resturant but they strive for Boulder's only whole animal, artisanal butcher shop and first independent retailer licensed to make and sell its own cured and fermented meats.

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Exceptional foods must come from exceptional sources. The mission at Blackbelly is that food will always start with seasonal, local Colorado- grown ingredients, and pasture raised, sustainable animals.
In November 2014, award-winning Chef Hosea Rosenberg evolved his esteemed Boulder, CO catering business, with a food truck and farm, into a long awaited, brick-and-mortar restaurant. The eatery was quickly identified as a Boulder essential, and elite dining destination in Colorado. Its early accolades include "Best New Restaurant" and has been ranked among 5280 Magazine's top 25 restaurants in each subsequent year. Its immediate popularity triggered an expansion just over a year later, with Blackbelly Butcher: Boulder's only whole animal, artisanal butcher shop and first independent retailer licensed to make and sell its own cured and fermented meats. The shop also offers an expansive selection of house-made cured meats, charcuterie and provisions, as well as weekday breakfast and lunch. Here, Blackbelly butchers have the space to break down whole animals on a daily basis, to use in their entirety for all aspects of the business: the main restaurant, butcher counter, breakfast & lunch menus, catering, and events.

Blackbelly works exceptionally close with local ranchers and farmers primarily within a few miles of the restaurant. These farmers provide an amazing example of Colorado's bounty, and what they cultivate directly effects the menu decisions the chefs make on a regular basis.

Korey Pound is the General Manager of Blackbelly.

Hailing from Flossmoor, IL, Korey started his restaurant career at 15 years old, bussing tables in a local Asian restaurant owned by his best friend's family. He excelled in the fast pace environment and fell in love with the energy of his surroundings at work. While there, Korey advanced into catered events, working with large corporate groups. He found he had a knack for, and enjoyed, handling many different personalities and situations. With a desire to keep learning he moved on to an Italian restaurant, Bellagio, where he worked FOH positions in their two on-site catering rooms. Thanks to the guidance of a respected industry veteran, Korey learned the intricacies of a more upscale dining experience; from open handed service, working with chefs, honing his listening skills to exceed guest expectations and other nuances of hospitality. Eventually he left the Midwest for a change of environment and landed in Pasadena, California, where he benefited from the invaluable learnings of a corporate structure at P.F. Chang's. He became a key holder and eventually a training manager for underperforming locations in the region. After getting a taste of California, his curiosity for another part of the west - Colorado - called to him, and Korey moved to the Denver metro area in 2016. He began serving and then managing at Blackbird Public House in the Washington Park section, until he found his home within Chef Hosea Rosenberg's family of restaurants as the Assistant General Manager of Santo in Boulder. After proving to be a strong and respected leader by staff and guests alike, Korey was given the opportunity to move over to Rosenberg's flagship restaurant, Blackbelly, as the AGM. In March 2021, his own self-motivation, professionalism and leadership qualities earned Korey the top position in the front of the house at Blackbelly, where he is now the General Manager.

Chef Hosea Rosenberg is the Chef and Owner of Blackbelly.

Hailing from Taos, NM Chef Rosenberg's culinary path began while earning a degree in Engineering Physics at the University of Colorado. Quickly, he realized his work in the kitchen was his true passion, and he moved rapidly through the ranks as a young cook. After studying under established chefs like Wolfgang Puck, Kevin Taylor, and Dave Query, Rosenberg landed chef positions at Boulder's Dandelion Restaurant in 2001and Jax Fish House in 2004. His competitive work ethic combined with the experience he had gained, pushed Chef Hosea to achieve national culinary fame as winner of Bravo TV's Top Chef, Season 5, in 2009. By 2011, Hosea launched, Blackbelly; first as a catering business, then came the addition of a small farm, followed by a food truck. By November 2014, his ultimate goal was realized with the opening of Blackbelly as a full-service restaurant, bar and market in East Boulder, expanding further into the space next door in 2016 with Blackbelly Butcher. The business has quickly been identified as an acclaimed dining destination and top retailer in Colorado. To date, Chef Hosea has won numerous accolades including Best Chef Denver International Wine Festival, Guest Chef at the James Beard House, and he was recognized by the United States Small Business Administration as a "business owner inspiring the entrepreneurial spirit of the nation."

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Exceptional foods must come from exceptional sources. The mission at Blackbelly is that food will always start with seasonal, local Colorado- grown ingredients, and pasture raised, sustainable animals. In November 2014, award-winning Chef Hosea Rosenberg evolved his esteemed Boulder, CO catering business, with a food truck and farm, into a long awaited, brick-and-mortar restaurant.

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https://www.bouldercounty.org/environment/sustainability/food-and-agriculture/restore-colorado/

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also i went to the renaissance fair and they had tied up elephants in colorado ??? LIEKW WNAG 

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also i went to the renaissance fair and they had tied up elephants in colorado ??? LIEKW WNAG 

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unrelated but banksy painted a real elephant which is kind of mean 

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unrelated but banksy painted a real elephant which is kind of mean 

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Animal Welfare Organizations - Colorado Humane Society

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View lists of animal welfare organizations state-wide that provide various resources such as animal control, free pet and equine food, and veterinary care.

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not local but sue coe makes very impactful political art about animal cruelty 

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not local but sue coe makes very impactful political art about animal cruelty 

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https://annmccoy.com/

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smile would be a great guest but being anonymous and all...

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smile would be a great guest but being anonymous and all...

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Follow @lindaisraelart on Instagram for more.

It all started with...

Linda's passion and love for animals. Inspired to bring their souls alive on canvas, Linda paints animals up close with bold strokes and bright colors from a soulful place within herself. As a reminder to honor her free spirit and wild sense of color, she often recalls one of her favorite quotes, "Art is not a photo of life, but a feeling of life!"

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Follow @lindaisraelart on Instagram for more. Linda's passion and love for animals. Inspired to bring their souls alive on canvas, Linda paints animals up close with bold strokes and bright colors from a soulful place within herself.

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COVID-19 Update: As CU Boulder continues to closel

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Bottle Feed Baby Goats at Working Goat Dairy Farm

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Operated by: Growing Gardens Available Weds/Thurs/Fri/Sat from April 6th-May 27th 11 am-12 pm (10 people maximum group size), registration available HERE. WHY Goats? Animals are therapeutic. Giving back feels good. Laughter is great medicine. Interacting with baby goats is an amazing, unique experience.

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Coco

General Manager

Billy

Customer Service

Galiape (Gigi)

Events Coordinator

We are Hep and Mary Ingham, the owners of Naughty Goat Farms. Hep is a Boulder native and works as an engineer; I'm a southern farm girl and I run the farm, manage our farmhouse rental, and sell my artwork. For many years, we divided our time between San Francisco and Boulder. In the end, Boulder is where our heart is so this is where we'll stay.

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My farm philosophy is simple: grow it from the Earth and share the bounty! In the South, where I grew up, everyone had huge gardens, and no matter how much money folks had, everyone was family. I get my love for animals, baking, and gardening from my grandmothers who raised dairy cows, had flocks of chickens, and grew vegetable gardens I could get lost in. At Naughty Goat Farms, we grow food to feed ourselves and sell what's left at the farm stand, which we host with 2 neighboring farms--Valmont Valley Farm and Andrus Farm.

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True to my roots, we also have many farm animals, whom we love like pets! We have roosters, ducks, and 100 hens, all named Lucy, who lay loads of fresh eggs, even in the winter. Our most popular residents are Coco, the llama, and his best friend, Billy, the original naughty goat. Coco was hired to protect our chickens from coyotes, but he became desensitized to our dogs, Willi and Bobbi, and started to ignore the coyotes, too. I'm relieved to say that the adoption of our two livestock guardians, Blue and Bella, the Great Pyrenees mix dogs, have solved all of our coyote problems! The Naughty Goat animals are all safe and sound, and living happy lives on the farm.

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We want to invite you to share our harvests and eggs, meet our Naughty pets, and stay in our Historic Valmont Farmhouse, here, in Boulder, Colorado. Please join us for a taste of farm life, we'd love to have you!

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Coco General Manager Billy Customer Service Galiape (Gigi) Events Coordinator We are Hep and Mary Ingham, the owners of Naughty Goat Farms. Hep is a Boulder native and works as an engineer; I'm a southern farm girl and I run the farm, manage our farmhouse rental, and sell my artwork.

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Ethical Animal Farming | Ethical Farming Fund

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Although industrial animal farming does immeasurable damage to our planet, raising livestock in humanely and sustainably is beneficial in a number of ways.

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Several protestors gathered in front of the Boulder Courthouse on Saturday, Feb. 2, to engage community members about animal rights. "Anonymous for the Voiceless" is a grassroots organization started in 2016 by activists Paul Bashir and Asal Alamdari. According to its website, the organization's goal is to expose people to the treatment of animals in various industries to gain "total animal liberation".

During their protest on Pearl Street, members formed a triangular shape dubbed "The Cube of Truth" in which they held screens showing graphic images of animals being killed. Some wore masks while others spoke with passersby about their cause.

Mirsa Jeram, a mask-less protestor, explained how members take turns in the "cube", allowing each member a chance to discuss their thoughts with others. Jeram explained that members specifically looked for people who had an emotional or shocking reaction to the footage being shown.

"The industry hides these things for obvious reasons so we want to sort of educate the public," Jeram said.

Kimito Sakata, one of the protest organizers, said that the demonstration was about promoting a vegan lifestyle.

"Whether it's testing, cosmetics, or food, it's not necessary," Sakata said. "We want people to actually have more empathy about animals and we want all this exploitation to stop."

Public reactions ranged from indifference to confusion towards what was being shown. Others supported the demonstration.

Alex Robles, a small businessman, said he loved the protest.

"We're vegan and we think it's great doing something active for veganism, protecting animals and the environment," Robles said.

Linda Wood said she learned from the protestors.

"I think it's important for people to know," Wood said. "They eat meat and don't want to know where it comes from, but this is reality."

Others who walked called out the masks worn by many of the protestors, saying they should show their faces.

Despite the mix of results, Sakata believes the organization is promoting a progressive movement.

"I think one day you will find that your grandkids will say, 'Grandpa you used to eat meat'," Sakata said. "I think the future is vegan and if that's the future, Boulder should grab it by the horns and become progressive."
Contact CU Independent News Staff Writer Dustin Martinez at Dustin.Martinez@colorado.edu.

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Animal rights activists protest meat industry and animal exploitation

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Several protestors gathered in front of the Boulder Courthouse on Saturday, Feb. 2, to engage community members about animal rights. "Anonymous for the Voiceless" is a grassroots organization started in 2016 by activists Paul Bashir and Asal Alamdari. According to its website, the organization's goal is to expose people to the treatment of animals in various industries to gain "total animal liberation".

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Commission Requests - Traci Z Art Studio

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Have a favorite furry family member that you would love to commemorate in color? Traci does commissions! All originals are created on .064″ thick illustration board. Images can be mounted to wood and completed with a floater frame, or you can frame them yourself. Commission Sizes and Price Range 8 x 10″ $300 - $400 ...

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indigenous culture calls for using all parts of the animal so that there is no waste. "the Lakota believed the buffalo provided everything they needed"

there may be more examples of this but in my culture, (southeast asia) we also try to use all parts of the animals we consume. thats why alot of the gruesome looking foods here are made fun of by foreigners

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About the Artist
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Don Coen's life journey to become an influential contemporary artist began at a very early age while growing up on his family farm in Lamar, Colorado. Raised without a television, the young Coen began at the early age of five designing and building his own toys and drawing by kerosene lamps at night around the kitchen table. From those quiet nights until the present, Don's work has been inspired by his experience working the land with his family and several Latino families that lived and worked alongside Coen throughout his childhood and early adult years.

Don's arduous life on the farm unveiled a deep love and connection to the surreal beauty of the eastern Colorado plains and to the people that worked the land. His ability to see this landscape in its entirety began and continues to result in powerful artworks that capture the landscape, people, and fauna that represent the American plains.

Throughout his career, Coen's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and recognized by many publications, awards and museums. His work is widely collected throughout the world and part of permanent collections of many prominent museums.

Much of his early work in the 1960's and 1970's, while living in Boulder, was both abstract, and non-objective. It was in the early 1980's, when returning to his family farm that he decided to dedicate the next significant part of his life to capturing the spirit of his homelands. He began photographing and painting oversize images in a bold and unprecedented manner, illuminating this visually beautiful and economically vital part of our nation's production landscape.

"The Lamar Series" is a visual chronicle of everyday life within these rural American landscapes. A powerful statement of universal realization and intense reverence for life is created by Coen's telling of the forgotten beauty and reality of farm life through fifteen oversized canvases.

The harmony of the agricultural fields, plains, grain feeders and livestock are unveiled by exposing the complex, often overlooked, dualities that exist everyday on the rural American farm. Coen's large-scale paintings are surreal with a remarkably soft focus when viewed at close proximity but become riveting with life when viewed from a distance. "The Lamar Series" was embraced by the art community, traveling to multiple museums throughout the Midwest by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and purchased for permanent and private collections throughout the world.

Coen's works continues to evolve and elevate our collective consciousness about our modern agricultural traditions. As an extensive and poignantly timely evolution from "The Lamar Series" and "Images of Contemporary Rural America", Coen has begun documenting the American migrant worker. These workers are responsible for supplying much of the produce found in our supermarkets, co-ops and restaurants, yet there exists very little connection between the consumer and these vibrant people who work and harvest by hand. Coen traveled extensively throughout the nation, meeting, photographing and ultimately painting the migrant culture and the landscapes they work in. This new riveting series of large-scale canvases captures the lives and spirit of America's contemporary migrant workers and can only truly be experienced in person.

Coen's goal with the "Migrant Series" is to raise the consciousness of America to this very overlooked yet vital part of our society and to give the migrant workers an identity and voice through his paintings. Like "The Lamar Series", this new work portrays the dualities of the spirits and worlds we often drive by or do not care to notice or research. Exposing the spirit of America's migratory labor and the human spirit, Coen's work inspires us to take notice, to respond and to care about these incredible people, their lives and contributions to our society.

The potential and power of the series is difficult to conceive considering the political climate we live in. The time to introduce this work on a large scale is now. The Migrant Series will open in September 2014 at the Phoenix Art Museum. We are in the planning stages of setting up a tour. The Museum is also planning on a book on the Migrant Series.

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About the Artist View in PDF format Don Coen's life journey to become an influential contemporary artist began at a very early age while growing up on his family farm in Lamar, Colorado. Raised without a television, the young Coen began at the early age of five designing and building his own toys and drawing by kerosene lamps at night around the kitchen table.

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https://www.lindaisraelart.com/

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Follow @lindaisraelart on Instagram for more.

It all started with...

Linda's passion and love for animals. Inspired to bring their souls alive on canvas, Linda paints animals up close with bold strokes and bright colors from a soulful place within herself. As a reminder to honor her free spirit and wild sense of color, she often recalls one of her favorite quotes, "Art is not a photo of life, but a feeling of life!"

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Follow @lindaisraelart on Instagram for more. Linda's passion and love for animals. Inspired to bring their souls alive on canvas, Linda paints animals up close with bold strokes and bright colors from a soulful place within herself.

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https://streetwisearts.org/sam-parker

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Alfalfa's Boulder store continues its support of local artists with a mural to enhance its outdoor space
Working with And Art Space, Alfalfa's has commissioned local artist, Sam Parker, to bring a new art space to the City of Boulder
BOULDER, Colo. (Sept. 19, 2016) - Alfalfa's, Boulder's only locally owned natural and organic products retailer, today announced it will commence work with local Lyons-based artist, Sam Parker, to paint a large mural on the South wall of its parking lot at 1651 Broadway in Boulder. The mural will feature Colorado-based animal totems with an indigenous landscape background, and will not only beautify the Alfalfa's parking lot, but will bring more art space to Boulder for all to enjoy.

"We've partnered with And Art Space, a Boulder-based organization with a mission to bring more public art spaces to Boulder," said Paul McLean, Chief Operating Officer for Alfalfa's. "Alfalfa's has always been an active community member, and supporting local art and bringing more art to our community is just one of the ways we do this."

Soon after Alfalfa's re-opened its Boulder store in 2011, the company commissioned a local sculptor to design and build Alfie, the large rooster sculpture at its parking lot entrance. It was made out of old metal farming implements and demonstrated Alfalfa's continued support of the local community. The addition of vibrant mural to the South side of its parking lot is another way Alfalfa's can support local artists and give back to the community by beautifying its outdoor space.

And Art Space has facilitated the project with Parker. Their mission is to develop creative partnerships to install more public art throughout the Boulder community.

"We are committed to the advancement of local mural culture," said Leah Brenner Clack, founder of And Art Space. "We are excited to partner with Alfalfa's, and to bring life to what was an otherwise empty space. We can all benefit from murals as creative expression in our environment and day-to-day lives."

Parker has designed the 40 by 6.5 foot mural to feature four native Colorado animal totems with a backdrop of vibrant Colorado landscape. He will begin painting on Monday, Sept. 19 through Wednesday, Sept. 24. Alfalfa's welcomes community members to come and watch the process, and interact with Parker.

About Sam Parker

Born in 1975, Sam Parker has been creating art since childhood. He became a professional artist in his early twenties and, for the past two decades, was an integral part of Atlanta's art scene. Sam received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in drawing and painting in 2004 (Kennesaw State University) and went on to complete his Master's Degree in the same discipline in 2010 (Georgia State University). Parker moved to Boulder Colorado in 2015, where he currently resides and contributes to the local art scene. Sam's involvement with the arts over the past 20 years has earned him national recognition.

About Alfalfa's

Alfalfa's is a Boulder-owned and operated organic and natural foods market operating two stores in Boulder County. With a modern store environment, Alfalfa's is committed to a passion for organic, adherence to strict product standards and dedication to its local community. For more information, please visit www.alfalfas.com.

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Working with And Art Space, Alfalfa's has commissioned local artist, Sam Parker, to bring a new art space to the City of Boulder BOULDER, Colo. (Sept. 19, 2016) - Alfalfa's, Boulder's only locally owned natural and organic products retailer, today announced it will commence work with local Lyons-based artist, Sam Parker, to paint a large mural on the South wall of its parking lot at 1651 Broadway in Boulder.

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Horse painter (cows are basically horses)

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Horse painter (cows are basically horses)

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https://www.lorenaaweber.com/horses

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Horse Paintings | Lorena A. Weber | Boulder, CO | Lorena A. Weber | Boulder, CO

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Do you love horses? Are you looking for an artist who can capture their raw strength and beauty? Look no further than Lorena’s collection of horse paintings.

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http://www.maxcolemandesign.com/walls/

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Profane Abuse of Animals by Susan Cafarelli

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Profane Abuse of Animals is a painting by Susan Cafarelli which was uploaded on August 21st, 2010. The painting may be purchased as wall art, home decor, apparel, phone cases, greeting cards, and more. All products are produced on-demand and shipped worldwide within 2 - 3 business days.

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Animal Portrait Commissions - Barbara Yates Beasley

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Fabric Collage Animal Portrait Commissions

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https://news.kgnu.org/2015/08/fresh-pairing-art-and-agriculture/

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FRESH Longmont is a unique art project that pairs local artists with local farmers to create music, poetry, paintings, photographs and sculptures which reflect the local agricultural community.

It culminates on Saturday August 22 nd with a sold out benefit featuring a live auction, award-winning artwork, chef-and-farm-created tapas and music.

The fundraiser benefits Arts Longmont and Firehouse Art Center, and is taking place at Roosevelt Park in Longmont, with musical performances and features local chefs using product supplied by local farms in a competition between the chefs that will be evaluated by celebrity judges.

Joanne Kirves, Executive Director of Arts Longmont and the Muse Gallery says there were 40 artists that worked with 14 farms "Our plan was to match each farm with a two dimensional artist, a three dimensional artist and a storyteller, and the storyteller could be a writer, a poet, a musician or a chef. So with those three components those artists would tell the story of that farm."

Musician Greg Marmolejo was paired with the Sol y Sombra farm and was inspired to write a song about the farm cats, the result is The ballad of Thunder, Lightning and Rascal.

Artist Deborah Coccoli was paired with Briar Gate farm which has goats and produces cheese. "The goats were so playful and their long ears flopped when they ran and frisked, and the new born kids curled as tightly as they could to fit into a bowl. And alas, the cheese stands alone."

http://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/kgnu-news/2015/08/08-21-15_FreshMetroArts.mp3

The FRESH art exhibitions are open to the public throughout the month of August at the Firehouse gallery and Muse gallery in Longmont.

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FRESH Longmont is a unique art project that pairs local artists with local farmers to create music, poetry, paintings, photographs and sculptures which reflect the local agricultural community. It culminates on Saturday August 22 nd with a sold out benefit featuring a live auction, award-winning artwork, chef-and-farm-created tapas and music.

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Elle Staron
LOCAL ARTIST

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Contact Rick to purchase a painting or photos.
Commissions welcome. Prints available of all work.

RICK DALLAGO is a painter & film producer. He was raised in NYC, lived in LA for 30 years, and relocated to Colorado in 2019. His photo-realistic oil pastel paintings are satirical, socially relevant, and humorous. He considers himself a "snarky- Norman Rockwell."

"It's important for my films, paintings, and photos to convey a narrative... to tell a story. As a kid, I wrote & directed plays for my neighborhood in Far Rockaway, NY. I am grateful to my family for encouraging creativity and my pursuit of a film career. I love art, movies, photography, and political cartoons. "

Rick's work has been displayed at the MUSEUM OF BOULDER, LONGMONT MUSEUM, R GALLERY, RAYBACK, OPEN STUDIOS, D'ART GALLERY, DENVER ART SOCIETY, IMPROPER CITY, ODELLS, and MILLER & ROSSI. He is the co-creator of Boulder's popular AVALON ARTS FESTIVAL and he is the host of "FIVE at 11," a weekly VIRTUAL ARTIST CRITIQUE for the BOULDER ART ASSOCIATION. He juried Colorado Chautauqua's 2020 Art in the Park, auctioning the work of 15 Colorado Artists for the Colorado Chautauqua Historic National Landmark and has donated art for auction to the BOULDER PHILHARMONIC, ARTS! LAFAYATTE, BOULDER TREASURES, COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA, WOMEN IN SCIENCE [CSU] and the MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION, BETC [Boulder Ensemble Theater Company) and the CITY OF AURORA.

"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said."

- Jackson Pollack

As a producer, his films include: BLUE CRUSH, INTO THE BLUE, CHEATERS, CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL, TURISTAS, and THINGS BEHIND THE SUN-nominated for 5 Emmys and winner of the Peabody & Edgar Allen Poe Award. Prior to producing, Rick worked in various production capacities on FATHER OF THE BRIDE, THE DOORS, CITY SLICKERS 2, BABY BOOM, THE PICKUP ARTIST, ISHTAR, etc.

" Since moving to Colorado. I'm focusing on creating opportunities for local artists to sell art. Creating the AVALON ARTS FESTIVAL in Boulder has been a high point-featuring 60 artists, musicians and dance companies. Attendance has been through the roof."

These hand-tinted photos of me hung in my grandmother's house. I love the color-effect. I'm obsessed with the lost art of hand tinting. Back in the day, every town had a photo tinter - and that would have been me.

"Ass, Gas, or Grass - Nobody Rides for Free: Solo Exhibit"
D'ART GALLERY - Denver, CO 2021

"Rick Dallago- Paintings, Photos, Perspectives"
MUSEUM OF BOULDER - Boulder CO, 2021
PRESS

"Open Walls"
BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - Boulder, CO, 2021

"Art-In-the-Park"
COLORADO CHAUTAQUA - Boulder, CO, 2021

"Drawing Parallels"
MUSEUM OF BOULDER - Boulder, CO, 2020

"Solo Show"
RAYBACK COLLECTIVE - Boulder CO, Sept 2020

"Spot On"
D'ART GALLERY - Denver, CO, 2021

"Solo Show"
IMPROPER CITY - Denver, CO 2020

"Solo Show"
ODELLS-RINO - Denver, CO 2019

"Changes"
MILLER ROSSI GALLERY - Denver, CO 2019

"Group Show"
DENVER ART SOCIETY - Denver, CO 2019

"Transforming Matter"
MATTER STUDIO GALLERY - Los Angeles, CA, 2019

"Exposed"
NEUTRA MUSEUM - Los Angeles, CA, 2018

"Personal Narrative"
ANNENBERG BEACH HOUSE - Santa Monica, CA, 2018

"Dear President"
SOUTH BAY CONTEMPORARY - San Pedro, CA

"With Liberty & Justice For Some"
WALTER MACIEL GALLERY - LA, SF, Berkeley, CA

"MAS Attack"
MUSEUM OF TORRENCE - Torrence, CA

"Ribba 3"
COASTLINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE - Newport Beach, CA

"Fluff & Fold"
ABBOTT'S HABIT GALLERY - Venice, CA
Rick has donated art for auction:
THE BOULDER PHILHARMONIC

BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATER COMPANY [BETC]

COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA, Winterfest, 2020

ARTMA- Denver based non-profit- Pediatric Cancer Patients

CITY OF LAFAYETTE ARTS COUNCIL, Lafayette, CO

WOMEN IN SCIENCE, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

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Contact Rick to purchase a painting or photos.
Commissions welcome. Prints available of all work.

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Click images for larger view. RICK DALLAGO is a painter & film producer. He was raised in NYC, lived in LA for 30 years, and relocated to Colorado in 2019. His photo-realistic oil pastel paintings are satirical, socially relevant, and humorous. He considers himself a "snarky- Norman Rockwell."

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Elle Staron
LOCAL ARTIST
not really animal rights. One if his pieces kinda fits the theme but I just love his work

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Roger Reutimann is a Swiss-American sculptor, known for his large scale works in contemporary materials like cast stainless steel, fiberglass and concrete. He lives and woks in Boulder, Colorado.

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not really in our topic but he works in oil pastel

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Contact Rick to purchase a painting or photos.
Commissions welcome. Prints available of all work.

RICK DALLAGO is a painter & film producer. He was raised in NYC, lived in LA for 30 years, and relocated to Colorado in 2019. His photo-realistic oil pastel paintings are satirical, socially relevant, and humorous. He considers himself a "snarky- Norman Rockwell."

"It's important for my films, paintings, and photos to convey a narrative... to tell a story. As a kid, I wrote & directed plays for my neighborhood in Far Rockaway, NY. I am grateful to my family for encouraging creativity and my pursuit of a film career. I love art, movies, photography, and political cartoons. "

Rick's work has been displayed at the MUSEUM OF BOULDER, LONGMONT MUSEUM, R GALLERY, RAYBACK, OPEN STUDIOS, D'ART GALLERY, DENVER ART SOCIETY, IMPROPER CITY, ODELLS, and MILLER & ROSSI. He is the co-creator of Boulder's popular AVALON ARTS FESTIVAL and he is the host of "FIVE at 11," a weekly VIRTUAL ARTIST CRITIQUE for the BOULDER ART ASSOCIATION. He juried Colorado Chautauqua's 2020 Art in the Park, auctioning the work of 15 Colorado Artists for the Colorado Chautauqua Historic National Landmark and has donated art for auction to the BOULDER PHILHARMONIC, ARTS! LAFAYATTE, BOULDER TREASURES, COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA, WOMEN IN SCIENCE [CSU] and the MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION, BETC [Boulder Ensemble Theater Company) and the CITY OF AURORA.

"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said."

- Jackson Pollack

As a producer, his films include: BLUE CRUSH, INTO THE BLUE, CHEATERS, CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL, TURISTAS, and THINGS BEHIND THE SUN-nominated for 5 Emmys and winner of the Peabody & Edgar Allen Poe Award. Prior to producing, Rick worked in various production capacities on FATHER OF THE BRIDE, THE DOORS, CITY SLICKERS 2, BABY BOOM, THE PICKUP ARTIST, ISHTAR, etc.

" Since moving to Colorado. I'm focusing on creating opportunities for local artists to sell art. Creating the AVALON ARTS FESTIVAL in Boulder has been a high point-featuring 60 artists, musicians and dance companies. Attendance has been through the roof."

These hand-tinted photos of me hung in my grandmother's house. I love the color-effect. I'm obsessed with the lost art of hand tinting. Back in the day, every town had a photo tinter - and that would have been me.

"Ass, Gas, or Grass - Nobody Rides for Free: Solo Exhibit"
D'ART GALLERY - Denver, CO 2021

"Rick Dallago- Paintings, Photos, Perspectives"
MUSEUM OF BOULDER - Boulder CO, 2021
PRESS

"Open Walls"
BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - Boulder, CO, 2021

"Art-In-the-Park"
COLORADO CHAUTAQUA - Boulder, CO, 2021

"Drawing Parallels"
MUSEUM OF BOULDER - Boulder, CO, 2020

"Solo Show"
RAYBACK COLLECTIVE - Boulder CO, Sept 2020

"Spot On"
D'ART GALLERY - Denver, CO, 2021

"Solo Show"
IMPROPER CITY - Denver, CO 2020

"Solo Show"
ODELLS-RINO - Denver, CO 2019

"Changes"
MILLER ROSSI GALLERY - Denver, CO 2019

"Group Show"
DENVER ART SOCIETY - Denver, CO 2019

"Transforming Matter"
MATTER STUDIO GALLERY - Los Angeles, CA, 2019

"Exposed"
NEUTRA MUSEUM - Los Angeles, CA, 2018

"Personal Narrative"
ANNENBERG BEACH HOUSE - Santa Monica, CA, 2018

"Dear President"
SOUTH BAY CONTEMPORARY - San Pedro, CA

"With Liberty & Justice For Some"
WALTER MACIEL GALLERY - LA, SF, Berkeley, CA

"MAS Attack"
MUSEUM OF TORRENCE - Torrence, CA

"Ribba 3"
COASTLINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE - Newport Beach, CA

"Fluff & Fold"
ABBOTT'S HABIT GALLERY - Venice, CA
Rick has donated art for auction:
THE BOULDER PHILHARMONIC

BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATER COMPANY [BETC]

COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA, Winterfest, 2020

ARTMA- Denver based non-profit- Pediatric Cancer Patients

CITY OF LAFAYETTE ARTS COUNCIL, Lafayette, CO

WOMEN IN SCIENCE, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Click images for larger view.

Contact Rick to purchase a painting or photos.
Commissions welcome. Prints available of all work.

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Click images for larger view. RICK DALLAGO is a painter & film producer. He was raised in NYC, lived in LA for 30 years, and relocated to Colorado in 2019. His photo-realistic oil pastel paintings are satirical, socially relevant, and humorous. He considers himself a "snarky- Norman Rockwell."

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My artwork encapsulates my close personal connection to natural history, often in a narrative form.

With a blend of surrealist and figurative abstraction, my works depict my admiration for the wonders of nature.

Animals and landscapes are essential to my traditional oil and my contemporary figurative paintings.

My brush strokes go beyond the known world, as I explore and vary both concepts and techniques.

Figurative abstract art paintings may capture a fleeting moment in time or an abstracted essence that flows eternally.

From the mundane to the powerfully dramatic all subjects provide a challenge for visual communication.

Each composition is a unique story, created for you the viewer; my philosophy is what you see.

Question and peruse, select what you like. What your eyes see is both subjective and personal.

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My artwork encapsulates my close personal connection to natural history, often in a narrative form. With a blend of surrealist and figurative abstraction, my works depict my admiration for the wonders of nature. Animals and landscapes are essential to my traditional oil and my contemporary figurative paintings.

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3d art of any kind

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This organization uses children’s art to show how poverty and food ties can really effect kids. Sorry this is a little bit late 😅

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. When you transform real stories of hunger, gratitude, and success into art, those thousand words become so much more impactful.

That was the thought behind the murals in the Amarillo SP4K warehouse. We wanted to give local artists the opportunity to take stories of kids who receive Snack Paks and bring them to life in a new way. The results have been astounding.

Local artists teamed up with SP4K to create everything from realism paintings that capture the raw, emotional pain of hunger in children to abstract pieces highlighting the transformation kids experience when they have access to quality food. They're sharing these kids' stories in ways words never could, and, as a result, they're changing lives.

These are just a few of the incredible pieces of art showcased in the warehouse - and the true stories that inspired them.

"Hunger is my least favorite word since about 4 years ago. It was a time when we didn't have enough to feed all of the kids and adults. After all the kids ate, my parents had to share a plate. I would eat no more than half my plate and give it to my younger siblings.

Most nights, I went to bed hungry. My parents would cry because they felt like they had let us down. At school, I ate lots for breakfast and even lunch to be as full as possible, but I still was hungry at bedtime.

Then we started getting Snack Pak 4 Kids. It was a life-saver because me and my parents got to eat something at least. Then Mom finally got a job and we got back on track."

"When I'm hungry, I feel fire in my stomach."

"Dear Snack Paks,

I am thankful for you volunteering for us to have Snack Paks.

It is important because I have five other sisters and my mom and dad can't afford to feed all of us, but since I have it, they can start not worrying to feed us.

I feel happy to be receiving it because you gave your time to us by helping. I learned from your generosity that the generosity can spread. I feel encouraged by you, and I will spread that generosity."

"Hunger. What hunger means to me? Well, I know how it feels and what you go through. It's not pretty. When I was younger, around 2 years old till I was 7, my mother, sister, and I didn't always have food. Why didn't we? It's because my father used mostly all of the money on booze and cigarettes.

The only person that worked was my father, so when my father came back from work all tired, my mother would sneak money out of his wallet. With just $30 in hand and some coins, I had my mother, sister, and I go to La Lupita. We'd buy some beans, rice, tomatoes, and tortillas for food. With that little bit of food, we will have to make it last at least three weeks.

The only meal we had at home was dinner. Sometimes, we didn't even have dinner. April and I will have to wait till the next morning. At school, we will eat our breakfast and lunch. My father will eat at work and my mother will eat at my grandma's house down the street.

My mother did whatever she could to feed April and me. Later came my brother, Junior. We will ask for food donations and my grandma will help. Even at the age of 7, I did not know that we were poor and hungry.

My mother finally started working and within months we left the little house we lived in and moved to a better home. Throughout the year, my mother has provided food for April, Jr., and I."

"Someone who is hungry does not have food to eat. The refrigerator is just as empty as your stomach. I know this because I was once hungry. No food but my school meals. Some nights without dinner and long weekends of growling stomachs.

My dad was working at Owens Corning Fiber Glass Plant and was suddenly laid off. My house had drastic changes made since he made a large income. I can recall the first night my parents sent me to bed with no dinner. I was only 11 years old. The following weekend, we had only two meals that were small in size. My dad looked for work every day and, after several months of little amounts of food, he received unemployment.

Not long after, he soon found a job at a copper refinery where he is still employed today. The experience has made me more understanding to other people who are having a hard time in life. Whenever my church goes on missions to take food to people, I love to go so I can change someone's life who was just like me in the past."

"Dear Snack Pak 4 Kids,

Thank you for the Snack Paks. They helped my stomach by growing strong. It also helps us kick the hunger away. My favorite foods in there were goldfish, milk, and peanuts.

I needed Snack Pak because it helps me grow strong. Thanks for every Snack Pak you gave me."

"What does hunger look like?

To me, by personal experience, I have had to go a couple of days without eating, also my family. Other times, we just eat a sandwich and maybe a pork chop. Real hunger feels like having your insides all crunched together.

Also, my friends don't have much food either. For example, one of my friends a couple of days ago gave me a dollar just for a bag of chips. Also, a couple of weeks ago, I saw one of my neighbors who was only 9 years old digging through the dumpster for scraps."

"Thank you, Snack Pak persons!

Dear Snack Pak people,

Thank you for giving people in need a hand with food. I am so grateful that you guys spend your time making Snack Paks and delivering them to school. I really appreciate that you're helping people in need, so, when I grow up, I want to lend a hand to kids in need of food.

Snack Pak persons, you really inspired me. Thank you."

Start A SP4K Program. Change Thousands Of Lives.

When you start a weekend hunger relief program, you're doing so much more than just providing kids with food over the weekends. You're helping them succeed in school, allowing them to fit in and make friends, and inspiring them to help other kids struggling with hunger.

Does your community have a SP4K program? Are kids in your city, neighborhood, or school growing hungry?

Starting a hunger relief program may sound daunting. But with the support of local schools, the help of eager volunteers, and the guidance of SP4K, you can create a sustainable program that can transform hungry kids' lives for years to come. Our model is simple, easy to replicate, and can even be applied to existing programs.

Ready to get started? Download our free SP4K Infographic. You'll learn:

What Snack Pak 4 Kids is

Our two keys to success

How to start your own

And more!

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The Incredible True Stories Of Child Hunger Behind The SP4K Murals

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Local artists teamed up with SP4K to capture the emotional pain of child hunger and the transformation kids experience when they have access to quality food - using just paint and a canvas. These are the incredible pieces of art showcased in the warehouse and the true stories that inspired them.

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Damien Hirst work on animals can be an inspiration, although its meaning might not fit into the themes -Fern

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"Sue Coe paints horror beautifully, ugliness elegantly, and monstrosity with precise sanity," wrote Glenn O'Brien-RIP-in 1984 for the debut review of Sue Coe's work in Artforum. The claim rings true today. Her anti-career career as someone "double-parked on the highway of life," as she puts it, has been one of nonstop art as activism. "Graphic Resistance," a survey of fifty works from the past forty years, is on view at MoMA PS1 in New York until September 9.

I MAKE ART FOR PEOPLE ON THE FRONT LINES. That's my family: a community of activists who are not artists but who want to use art as a weapon. That's who tells me if something is working and how I can make my art more effective. Some of my work is direct propaganda; some of it is visual journalism. I was an editorial artist for many decades-that's what I'm supposed to be. At sixteen, I began doing work for newspapers and never looked back. But at some point that changed into doing my own research and books, as opposed to illustrating somebody else's words.

Usually an artist is known for only one body of work, but I'm lucky that I'm known for two: the ongoing project about animal rights and the rape painting, which is now at MoMA PS1. The former work continues, and I'm always learning. As I see it, animals liberate themselves. They need our help, but it's not Lord and Lady Bountiful saving them. I'm aghast at how animal rights today have become all about the human diet-about being gluten-free. Animal liberation is a social-justice issue, and I've always promoted the abolitionist approach: eradication of all use. But now animal rights have been twisted into the market, where the meat industry disrupts itself by buying up vegan food producers.

Art always has to go beyond human health, human drama, and human issues. It has to be about social justice for all animals, including us. I initially made that connection as a kid in England after World War II, growing up around bombed-out ruins and living next door to a slaughterhouse. As a child, I was forced to see the correlation between war, violence, and fascism, and animal cruelty and abuse. Once I figured that connection out, so early on, I realized that the Other is always at risk.

When I was a vegan back in the late 1970s, there were like ten of us. Now it's like half the student body at places where I teach. Food animals are raped every time they are inseminated and are molested almost constantly. It's only within this animal rights movement that you can have "rape-free Mondays" and "child molestation-free Tuesdays." Would saying "I feel like raping a child right now" be acceptable in any other social-justice movement? No. The mistake of taking "baby steps" toward progress has happened in nearly every social-justice movement, and animal liberation is no different. Yet, there can't be any baby steps in this movement because there are no baby steps for an animal going into a slaughterhouse. They are babies, and they're being slaughtered.

For me, there's no difference between someone who works in the slaughterhouse and someone buying animal products from Whole Foods. They are morally exactly the same. Except one is usually poorer-the professional life span of a meatpacker is six months. Oh, and meatpacking places are called "harvesting centers" now. It's beyond Orwellian how the language changes.

What should be a rights movement has become a welfare movement. We need to understand how welfarism is keeping the system going. Welfare is always said to be a panacea that supposedly will make things better in the long term, but it doesn't. That's why my message carries an element of hopelessness. But there's something else: a dignity in struggle. There's a dignity in having comradeship. There's a dignity in not having our brains so destroyed that we think any problem has to be solved by a market solution. Unlike in the 1980s, people don't believe the market is going to provide the solution anymore. So that's changed.

As for feminism, the first review I ever had in the New York Times said I was a feminist artist. It's always been difficult for me to be in two bodies. People ask, "How does it feel to be a woman artist?" I mean, how does it feel to not be? But the more serious answer to the question about feminist content in my work is that I've always seen that as a bourgeois movement controlled by the dominant classes in America. If Hillary Clinton breaks a glass ceiling, does that really change anything?

I'm much more focused on what I'm working on now: Dump Trump. I could just do it in my sleep.

- As told to Lauren O'Neill-Butler

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Sue Coe talks about her ongoing animal rights activism and political art

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"Sue Coe paints horror beautifully, ugliness elegantly, and monstrosity with precise sanity," wrote Glenn O'Brien-RIP-in 1984 for the debut review of Sue Coe's work in Artforum. The claim rings true today. Her anti-career career as someone "double-parked on the highway of life," as she puts it, has been one of nonstop art as activism.

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banksy animal cruelty art - Google Search

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The work is definitely unique and makes me think more about how unlimited we are with our medium.
-Chelsea

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Street artist Dan Witz's thought-provoking collaboration with PETA, "Empty the Cages", is causing a stir across London, as dozens of unsettling installations encourage Londoners to open their eyes to animals' suffering.

Dan explains the inspiration for the project:

Like most artists, I'm interested in exploring what society hides from itself. As a human, I'm concerned with injustice. But, like most people, I feel powerless to do anything about the downward spiral our planet seems to be taking. But, as someone who operates in the public commons, with my street interventions, sometimes I get the opportunity to directly address this frustration, to provoke a dialogue about issues that matter to me.

It wasn't until the anti-whistleblower ag-gag laws began passing in the United States that my attention was drawn to America's animal agriculture industry. Further exploration revealed unbelievable depths of abuse - perpetrated against not only farm animals, but also the environment. Climate change, deforestation, wildlife extinction, water waste, air pollution and ocean dead zones (among other things) are all directly attributable to meat, dairy and egg production. And then there's the merciless ways in which these deep-pocketed and powerful entities treat their employees, not to mention the local irreversible environmental damage. It's truly unconscionable what these corporations get away with, day in and day out with seeming impunity.

This is why when PETA UK invited me to partner with them on the Empty the Cages project, to raise awareness surrounding animals raised for food and their dire plight, I didn't hesitate to say yes. If encountering my pieces brings this topic to anyone's attention, then art matters, because life matters, and I'm satisfied.

Dan created these pieces to connect us with the billions of individual animals who suffer and die out of sight each year for food.

The Empty the Cages project seeks to bring these animals out from the shadows - and remind us of what happens every day on farms and in slaughterhouses. At the same time, it reminds us that their fate is in our hands and that we have the power to save them by choosing not to consume their flesh.

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Street Artist Dan Witz: Why "Empty the Cages"?

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Street artist Dan Witz's thought-provoking collaboration with PETA, "Empty the Cages", is causing a stir across London , as dozens of unsettling installations encourage Londoners to open their eyes to animals' suffering. Dan explains the inspiration for the project: Like most artists, I'm interested in exploring what society hides from itself.

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We find some boulder landscape artist (there are a couple here (https://www.outdoorpainter.com/?s=boulder) to then make paintings of places in boulder imagined in a more ecological fashion. Maybe somewhere between solarpunk https://www.google.com/search?q=solarpunk&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS934US934&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjg9onBqeL1AhXGLDQIHQJgB6YQ_AUoAXoECAgQAw&biw=1419&bih=978&dpr=1.5 and modern sustainable houses https://www.google.com/search?q=sustainable+house&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS934US934&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiR_KXQqeL1AhWDHzQIHQa4AbcQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1419&bih=978&dpr=1.5

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https://www.barbaradanielsart.com/

Barbara Daniels is a Berlin based artist who portrays animal cruelty by switching the roles of humans and animals. I thought this was such an interesting and unique way of showing animal cruelty.
- Clara

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Humans tend to take their habits for granted. Everything seems self-evident until the perspective shifts. It forces us to reflect on the way we are: humans are not all sunshine and rainbows, as the saying goes. We also have a darker side that we prefer to be swept under the rug.

Barbara Daniels has a calling to reveal these dark things that people do. She shifts the perspective by swapping roles of humans and animals, which in turn raises our awareness of how we behave with other animals, which is brutal and unethical most of the time. There's much room to grow for our species. Her illustrations are a sobering reminder that our society is far from perfect. Though we tend to admire the progress of our own species, we tend to forget that we did it at the price of others.

More info: Instagram | barbaradanielsart.com | Facebook | twitter.com

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Artist Creates Illustrations Where The Roles Of Humans And Animals Are Reversed, And The Reality Is Thought-Provoking (50 Pics)

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Humans tend to take their habits for granted. Everything seems self-evident until the perspective shifts. It forces us to reflect on the way we are: humans are not all sunshine and rainbows, as the saying goes. We also have a darker side that we prefer to be swept under the rug.

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A Colorado art museum is standing by an upcoming exhibit featuring three tortoises with iPads mounted on their backs, despite calls from animal-rights activists to call off the exhibit as animal abuse.

The Aspen Art Museum released a statement supporting the exhibit by Cai Guo-Qiang called "Moving Ghost Town." The exhibit opens Saturday as part of the grand opening of the town's new $45 million museum.

The African Sulcata tortoises will roam around grass on the museum's roof deck garden. Each will have two iPads showing video of area ghost towns.

The museum said the tortoises were rescued from a breeder and that a veterinarian is overseeing their care. Their diet includes leafy vegetables. The iPads are on mounts used to attach tracking devices to wild animals, the museum said.

"The three are being closely monitored, cared for, checked by a local veterinarian at regular intervals, and are being exhibited in consultation with the Turtle Conservancy," spokeswoman Sara Fitzmaurice wrote. She said the tortoises would get new homes after the exhibit closes Oct. 5.

The Museum also sent a statement from an Aspen veterinarian.

"The iPads have not interfered in any way with their natural behavior," Dr. Elizabeth Kremzier said in the statement.

But the creator of the petition to stop the exhibit disagreed.

"These creatures were not designed to carry 2-pound iPads," Lisabeth Oden told the Aspen Daily News.
Source URL: https://www.tweentribune.com/article/teen/it-art-or-animal-cruelty/

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A Colorado art museum is standing by an upcoming exhibit featuring three tortoises with iPads mounted on their backs, despite calls from animal-rights activists to call off the exhibit as animal abuse. The Aspen Art Museum released a statement supporting the exhibit by Cai Guo-Qiang called "Moving Ghost Town."

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Leave it to Banksy to mix the cute and the cuddly with the totally disturbing. In the 11th work of his Better Out Than In exhibit happening on the streets of New York, the British artist takes over another delivery truck but, this time, there's no enchanting garden or running waterfall. Instead, a slaughterhouse delivery truck is carrying 60 stuffed animals (or puppets) - cows, chickens, pigs, lambs - who are seen moving their heads through wooden slats. This isn't just a visual installation, however. The animals can also be heard squealing and banging their against the sides of the "Farm Fresh Meats Inc" truck.

As Banksy's audio guide states, "This is a piece of sculpture art, and I know what you're thinking, 'Isn't it a bit subtle?' Here, the artist Banksy is making some sort of comment on the causal cruelty of the food industry. Or perhaps something vague and pretentious about the loss of childhood innocence."

The guide continues: "The truck contains over 60 cuddly soft toys on the road to a swift death. However, in order to bring them to life, four professional puppeteers are required, strapped into bucket seats, dressed entirely in black lycra, pulling on an array of levers with each limb and given only one toilet break a day - proving that the only sentient beings held in lower esteem than livestock are mime artists."

Sirens of the Lambs started touring the Meatpacking District today and will be roaming the streets of New York for the next two weeks. Watch the video, below, to see the reaction of shocked New Yorkers (including a poor baby at the end).

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Banksy's Disturbing Stuffed Animals Truck Roams New York

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Leave it to Banksy to mix the cute and the cuddly with the totally disturbing. In the 11th work of his Better Out Than In exhibit happening on the streets of New York, the British artist takes over another delivery truck but, this time, there's no enchanting garden or running waterfall.

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Paul McCartney being one of the biggest musicians in the world has done some activism around food, food policies, climate change accessibility to better sustainable food. This video talks about animal consumption and taking it down 1 day a week. - Mia

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'One Day a Week' feat. the McCartney family, Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone

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She doesn't have all her animal rights work in one place, but there is tons of it. She grew up next to a slaughter house, and most of her art is truly haunting.
-Chelsea

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Sue Coe is a contemporary English artist, noted for her intensely political graphic illustrations and activism. Born on November 28, 1951 in Staffordshire, England, she grew up near a slaughterhouse, which instilled in the artist a lifelong passion for animal rights activism. This political sensibility characterizes Coe's work, which often explicitly makes animal rights and other social issues its central subject. The artist uses painting, printmaking, and a realistic drawing style to depict scenes of animal suffering, as seen in BP Burns Turtles (2010). Her work is notably influenced by Chaïm Soutine, Käthe Kollwitz, and Francisco de Goya, among others. Along with her investigation of cruelty against animals, Coe has also explored topics such as sweatshops, prisons, AIDS, war, and anticapitalism throughout her work. Her illustrations have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Nation. She lives and works in upstate New York.

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Sue Coe is a contemporary English artist, noted for her intensely political graphic illustrations and activism. View Sue Coe's 43 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available works on paper, prints and multiples, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist.

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On Saturday, shoppers in five major Australian cities were recently confronted with activists posing as "human meat", reminding them that all animals - including humans - are made of flesh, blood, and bone.

Part of a series of demonstrations being held around the world, the Australian human meat events took place simultaneously in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and Perth.

Lying on large trays, covered with "blood" and clear plastic, activists mimicked typical meat packages found in supermarkets that contain the flesh of animals.

The activists challenged people to think about what meat really is and encouraged kind consumers to try going vegan.

Handing out fliers, talking to people affected by the sight of "human meat", and playing videos from Australian farms and abattoirs, they reminded everyone that all meat comes from somebody.

Animals have the same senses and range of emotions that humans do. And for some people, it's easy to forget that eating meat means eating the corpse of an abused animal who did not want to die.

Seeing human bodies in neat plastic-wrapped supermarket packages brings this point home, and the thought of chewing and swallowing the skin and muscle surely ruined some shoppers' appetites for flesh. Advice and support for those interested in making the switch to delicious and cruelty-free vegan meals was available at each event.

Chickens, fish, cows, and pigs feel pain and fear just as intensely as the animals who share our homes with us do, yet they are abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs and cats were the victims.

Going vegan can also positively impact our health. Meat and dairy foods have been linked to heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancer. Last year, the World Health Organisation added processed meats to its list of known carcinogens and also noted that red meat - including beef, pork, veal, and lamb - is likely carcinogenic.

Vegan eating is also an essential part of combating climate change and other environmental concerns. According to the United Nations, animal agriculture is one of the leading contributors to "the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global".

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Packages of 'Human Meat' Spotted Across Australia

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Part of a series of demonstrations being held around the world, the Australian human meat events took place simultaneously in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and Perth. Lying on large trays, covered with "blood" and clear plastic, activists mimicked typical meat packages found in supermarkets that contain the flesh of animals.

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Sue Coe is a contemporary English artist, noted for her intensely political graphic illustrations and activism. Born on November 28, 1951 in Staffordshire, England, she grew up near a slaughterhouse, which instilled in the artist a lifelong passion for animal rights activism. This political sensibility characterizes Coe's work, which often explicitly makes animal rights and other social issues its central subject. The artist uses painting, printmaking, and a realistic drawing style to depict scenes of animal suffering, as seen in BP Burns Turtles (2010). Her work is notably influenced by Chaïm Soutine, Käthe Kollwitz, and Francisco de Goya, among others. Along with her investigation of cruelty against animals, Coe has also explored topics such as sweatshops, prisons, AIDS, war, and anticapitalism throughout her work. Her illustrations have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Nation. She lives and works in upstate New York.

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Sue Coe is a contemporary English artist, noted for her intensely political graphic illustrations and activism. View Sue Coe's 43 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available works on paper, prints and multiples, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist.

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Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China, and lives and works in New York. He studied stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute from 1981 to 1985 and attended the Institute for Contemporary Art: The National and International Studio Program at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City. His work is both scholarly and politically charged. Accomplished in a variety of media, Cai began using gunpowder in his work to foster spontaneity and confront the controlled artistic tradition and social climate in China.

While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, he explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, leading to the development of his signature explosion events. These projects, while poetic and ambitious at their core, aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe. For his work, Cai draws on a wide variety of materials, symbols, narratives, and traditions: elements of feng shui, Chinese medicine and philosophy, images of dragons and tigers, roller coasters, computers, vending machines, and gunpowder. Since the September 11 tragedy, he has reflected upon his use of explosives both as metaphor and material. "Why is it important," he asks, "to make these violent explosions beautiful? Because the artist, like an alchemist, has the ability to transform certain energies, using poison against poison, using dirt and getting gold."

Cai Guo-Qiang has received a number of awards, including the forty-eighth Venice Biennale International Golden Lion Prize and the CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts. Among his many solo exhibitions and projects are Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Park, New York; Ye Gong Hao Long: Explosion Project for Tate Modern, London; Transient Rainbow, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Cai Guo-Qiang, Shanghai Art Museum; and APEC Cityscape Fireworks Show, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Shanghai. His work has appeared in group exhibitions including, among others, Bienal de São Paulo (2004); Whitney Biennial (2000); and three Venice Biennale exhibitions.

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In all of Ward 8, there is only one grocery store-which serves 85,000 residents. That kind of inequality is addressed in the Anacostia Community Museum's new outdoor art exhibit, Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington. "The DC area faces food justice issues, particularly around food insecurity and related issues like access to grocery stores and affordable, healthy food," said Samir Meghelli, chief curator of the Anacostia Community Museum. "Particularly, where we are in Ward 8 faces one of the greatest inequities around food access."

At the beginning of the exhibit, visitors are greeted with a huge red fork, alongside a question: "What is food justice?" Answers are provided on a series of towers that describe the life cycle of food, where it comes from, who's responsible for it, where waste goes, and the impact of food on our collective public health.

The installation is made of wire structures that are weighed down by baskets of rocks. While it was a practical way to hold the structures in place, Meghelli says it's also "a subtle nod to the fact that the earth, the land, is the foundation of our food system. That's a point we make more explicitly at various points."

A large sculpture of open hands holds an interactive feature that allows visitors to leave notes on tags, sharing their experiences or showing gratitude to food workers, who were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Visitors also learn how to take action in their own communities to work toward a more just food system.

A more-extensive exhibition on the subject had been planned for inside the museum, but that has been delayed due to the pandemic. Meghelli spent two years conducting research on the history of food-justice issues in the District. He sat with more than 100 people for oral history interviews, attended community forums on various aspects of food justice, and dug into archives. His goal was to "build a story around both food-justice issues and the people and organizations working to address them."

Because the full exhibit was pushed back, Meghelli decided to open this outdoor installation as a companion piece. "The outdoor exhibition is intended to provoke people to think more deeply about our food, and by extension our food system," Meghelli says, "and hopefully inspire people to want to get involved and contribute to making our local and national systems more just and sustainable."

Once it's able to open, the indoor exhibition will have videos, artifacts, and many more photos and stories. Food for the People is part of the museum's year-long theme "Our Food, Our Future," which explores food, history, culture and justice through a series of programs.
Food for the People will be on display through September 2022.

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Nicole J. Caruth believes that "food is a lens through which we can examine the deeper truths about power and privilege." The Rhode Island-based curator, writer and arts administrator explores the connections between art and food and how they can be used to expose and help resolve issues of social justice, such as the widening health inequality gap between high-income and low-income Americans.

One of her latest curatorial projects, " Build Better Tables," features nine temporary art installations, ranging from sculptures and free seed libraries to dinner conversations and a food justice MTA bus wrap, created by local and national artists and located in public spaces throughout Nashville.

Commissioned by Metro Arts: Nashville Office of Arts and Culture, the installations address issues of gentrification, affordable housing and food access in Nashville while creating opportunities for people to connect and co-create an inclusive kind of "progress," one that establishes healthy communities for everyone no matter their income level.

Caruth spoke with The Tennessean about "Build Better Tables," which launched in June and will continue through Sept. 1.
How are food issues linked to urban development?
It's all about who has access and who doesn't, and your location determines what you
have access to. Food issues include food access, food insecurity, hunger, rising food prices, agricultural practices, obesity, diet-related illness, food education and what Juan William Chávez calls "the privilege of time" - having enough time in your day to shop for and cook your own food. All of these issues intersect with issues in housing, transportation, race, class, gender, etc. What we consume is inseparable from the shared environment in which we live and our experiences in a certain place.
What inspired "Build Better Tables"?
When the opportunity to work with Metro Arts arose, I was working on a creative place-making project centered on the experience of homelessness. One can't address homelessness without also addressing urban development, affordable housing, gentrification, racism, classism, health care, social capital and other issues. Cursory research of Nashville led me to articles about, on the one hand, gentrification and displacement, and on the other hand, the virtues of a "booming" New South city. I've lived in quite a few American cities and, while they are all unique, the symptoms and aesthetics of gentrification are fairly consistent alongside a public discourse that is often polarizing. I wanted to better understand the systems at work that create these conditions.
How did you select the nine artists?
I approached artists who had worked in public space, whose creative processes involved collaborating with community members, who had expressed or demonstrated interest in food justice, communities of color, gentrification or all of the above. It was a balance between artists who were aware of or had experience addressing these issues.
How will these projects help Nashville's food issues?
At the very beginning of projects based on community engagement in public spaces, I always have a conversation with artists about how they can empower the people who live in that place to carry the work forward. The art projects are not resolutions; they are tools and conduits for consciousness, conversation and action, and the best way to learn about the daily toll of gentrification in Nashville is to create space for those who are affected by it to talk about it and express themselves. Then we - myself, community members, Metro Arts - can leverage what we've learned to amplify those voices and, hopefully, inform future strategies that address food and housing issues, from the everyday actions of individuals to the actions of policy makers.

There are people in the world whose jobs are much harder than mine and whose daily experience witnessing trauma are unimaginable. Talking to the folks at Lentz Public Health Center about black health outcomes and infant mortality rates was both challenging and enlightening. I have newfound appreciation for public health practitioners, and yet greater sadness about the economic violence humans inflict on one another. I recognize my privilege and am so grateful to have had this opportunity to get to know community members and celebrate all they do to uplift their neighbors.

What: "Build Better Tables"
Where: Throughout Nashville. Visit www.buildbettertables.com to learn more.
When: through Aug. 31
Admission: varies by event
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Nicole J. Caruth believes that "food is a lens through which we can examine the deeper truths about power and privilege." The Rhode Island-based curator, writer and arts administrator explores the connections between art and food and how they can be used to expose and help resolve issues of social justice, such as the widening health inequality gap between high-income and low-income Americans.

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Physical, emotional, and spiritual thresholds can either smother or stimulate our progression. We are navigating this material world with a brain that intensely fluctuates its perceptions around the stable center of our consciousness. Humans must be more often recognized for our accomplishments in successfully calibrating this passage.

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Dj cavem is a denver musician who raps and support programs fro conscious food choices. He talks about his drive through veganism driving him to see food differently with animal cruelty and sustainability. He is in the musician realm so i’m not sure if that exactly what we are looking for but hes a cool person to keep in mind. -mia

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When DJ Cavem coined the term eco-hip hop in 2007, he didn't know it would sprout into a global movement. His mission to rap about climate change, food justice and plant-based foods spread far beyond his Denver hometown. Having performed at the Obama White House and been featured in Oprah Magazine and on the Rachael Ray Show, Dr. Ietef "DJ Cavem" Vita became known as more than just a rapper - but an activist, educator and vegan chef. Now, several years after the release of The Produce Section, his award-winning album that fused hip hop with lessons on eco-friendliness, Cavem has shifted his focus to new material. His latest project BIOMIMICZ is being released as an album/seed pack to get people involved and spur listeners into action.

"I wanted this album to become an experience," he explained. "I want people to understand that one of the best ways to make an impact on the environment is being more conscious of what we eat and understanding that our everyday food choices impact the environment in a positive or negative way."

From an early age Cavem has had a deep connection to environmental activism and food justice. Raised in Denver's Five Points district, often referred to as the Harlem of the West, his interest for gardening and hip hop helped him resist the snares of gang lifestyle. Becoming vegan at age 14, he said he felt a calling to speak about these issues in his songs, "especially since most of the neighborhoods considered food deserts were people of color." His 2007 debut single "Wheatgrass" with rapper Stic.Man of Dead Prez hit top ten on the charts in Spain and introduced him to the public as an OG (Organic Gardener). It led to his 2010 debut album The Teacher's Lounge, followed by 2012's The Produce Section, which featured collaborations with Speech from Arrested Development, Drummi Zeb from The Wailers, and Sa-Roc. Part album, part curriculum, The Produce Section offered lessons on organic gardening, plant-based recipes and alternate uses of energy.

Since then Cavem has traveled the world as both a performing artist and an educator. He's shared the stage with Nick Jonas, Public Enemy, 2 Chains, Questlove, Wyclef Jean, among others. Offstage he's involved with numerous organizations and projects dedicated to promoting wellness, eating healthy and environmental awareness. With his wife and collaborator Arasia "Alkemia" Earth, the pair inspire and educate around the world including communities in countries such as Azerbaijan through workshops and speaking engagements. They formed a non-profit organization called the Vita Earth Foundation, which hosts health and wellness summer camps, Culinary Concerts, and their Recipes for Resistance workshops, which focuses on culinary climate action.

Traveling the globe has given Cavem a fresh perspective with BIOMIMICZ. Released during International Compost Week, the EP is a precursor to a full-length album. It's being issued as a seed pack - kale, arugula and beets - to be planted right away. Come harvest, the full-length album will be packed with recipes on how to prepare meals with those vegetables. According to Cavem, BIOMIMICZ is about getting back to basics with a sense of urgency.

"Factory farms have destroyed the Amazon rainforest. Pesticides and herbicides have destroyed our soil and microorganisms and contaminated our water. Our oceans are becoming acidic and we are losing the coral reefs. I hope my lyrics will inspire and educate. And I hope the seeds will be planted, literally."

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In 2015, the New York based artist, Mary Mattingly, published a manifesto which expresses her practice and vision as an artist; it states "that art and utopian thought can cultivate systemic social change. Art can transform people's perceptions about value, and collective art forms can reframe predominant ideologies." Using art as a tool for social, economic, and environmental change, Mattingly creates performative and publicly engaged art projects that range in size and media. From environmental, dystopian photographs to collage-like sculptures made from personal possessions to public farms and ecotopian libraries, her artworks aim to disassemble and fight against traditional and damaging systems of economic, ecologic, and educational order. Having exhibited work in both galleries and public space for over 15 years, her career as an artist and environmental activist is expansive. She also works as an adjunct visual art professor at Pratt Institute and has previously lectured at several well-known institutions including Yale University School of Art and University of Oxford.

Responding to conditions of her ecological and geographical upbringing, Mattingly derived one of the first of her many performative and sustainably-driven project series titled Wearable Homes (ongoing). She states, "The Wearable Homes were a response to the realities of living in a country where there is still not a safety net for so many people," where lack of infrastructure, access to basic needs, and actively changing climate cause everyday threats to the survival of generations of people. To create Wearable Homes, Mattingly envisioned what life might be like in a dystopian future where the entirety of world's resources were "marketized and sold,"-- a future where human beings race to survive by migrating across the world "as a result of un-predictabilities surrounding climate change." With various design elements, the self-sustaining bodysuits acclimatize to protect bodies from environmental stressors. They also include water filters and hammock-structures to accommodate basic needs of human survival.

Many of Mattingly's artworks imagine the grim possibilities of global futures by critiquing current systems of capitalist consumption; however, in her practice, she creates promising and tangible systems that aim to increase access to ecological and social sustainability. In 2016, Mattingly launched the public living sculpture Swale. Swale is describedas "a floating food forest," located on a reclaimed barge. Open for public use and interaction, Swale promotes spaces for ecological food sharing in New York City parks. Visitors can use Swale to source perennial foods, from edible flowers, to cooking herbs, vegetables, and medicinal plants. The ongoing public artwork "is organized with the help of individuals, community groups, as well as city organizations, promoting "food and water as essential elements," and the importance of "cooperatively stewarded commons."

As a transient and usable garden, Swale moves to different parts of the city. It was first located at Concrete Plant in South Bronx and, later, Brooklyn Army Terminal. The project coordinators state that, "food deserts are a reality in many communities in New York City; as many as three million New Yorkers live in communities with limited access to places where they can get fresh produce." In NYC, it is illegal to grow or pick food on public land; therefore, Swale is located on the water, via the reclaimed barge, to make use of marine common law and to bypass NYC land regulations.

Swale is an accessible public environment for diverse communities, and as an artwork it encourages individuals " to reconsider industrial food systems, to confirm a belief in healthy food as a human right, and to pave pathways to create public food in public space." In 2022, the Swale Barge will become a permanent floating park in New York City.

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Lewycky's use of sculpture is really effective and thought provoking.
-Chelsea

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Is It Necessary? Mixed Media Installation & Performance Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 2014 ROCKY LEWYCKY USES PERFORMATIVE MARK-MAKING TO QUESTION FACTORY FARMING PRACTICES Every day, a man enters the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History with a Swiss Army bac

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Banksy is a well known anonymous street artist. I think we could do something cool along the lines of his most famous work regarding animal cruelty. The truck with animals is horrifically impactful.
-Chelsea

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WAV Comment - Banksy is a more than fabulous anonymous English street artist. He has been known also for his involvement with animal rights. True to form, below you can see a couple of his 'projects' in New York relating to live animal transport (one of our main issues), and the abuse of animals linked to the pet industry.

Banksy's name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. In a 2003 interview with Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian,

Banksy is described as "white, 28, scruffy casual-jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of the Streets."

Banksy began as an artist at the age of 14, was expelled from school, and served time in prison for petty crime. According to Hattenstone, "anonymity is vital to him because graffiti is illegal". For 10 years in the late 1990s, Banksy lived in Easton, Bristol, then moved to London around 2000.

He does all this and he stays anonymous. I think that's great. These days everyone is trying to be famous. But he has anonymity.

Banksy

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Pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Banksy is an anonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director, active since the 1990s. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. Banksy's work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.

Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. Banksy no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public "installations" are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall they were painted on. A small number of Banksy's works are officially, non-publicly, sold through Pest Control. Banksy's documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.

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WAV Comment - Banksy is a more than fabulous anonymous English street artist. He has been known also for his involvement with animal rights. True to form, below you can see a couple of his 'projects' in New York relating to live animal transport (one of our main issues), and the abuse of animals...

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