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Tag: Hatuey Ramos Fermin
On being an ‘artist and….’
Listen to the podcast at FAB NYC. Elizabeth Hamby and Hatuey Ramos Fermin (also known as Meta Local Collaborative) are Bronx based artists who continue to transform our understanding of New York’s largest public space: its streets. They explore the histories of neighborhoods, create site-specific participatory work, engage a broad range of people, and work…… Continue reading On being an ‘artist and….’
INTERVIEW: THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT
Through a decade, The Laundromat Project worked for the residents of New York’s historic minority neighborhoods to get their voices heard. The tools for it? Art and design.
Bronx Artist Asks Visitors to Share Their ‘Sites of Struggle’ On NYC Map
By Eddie Small For DNAInfo CONCOURSE — A Bronx artist wants to hear about your struggles. Artist Hatuey Ramos Fermín has set up an interactive map of the city as part of the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ exhibit on the Young Lords Organization that asks visitors to write down something they are struggling with on…… Continue reading Bronx Artist Asks Visitors to Share Their ‘Sites of Struggle’ On NYC Map
Artists in the Marketplace at the Bronx Museum
http://youtu.be/sL87bSRKRWE BY MOSTAFA HEDDAYA for Blouin Artinfo The Bronx Museum of the Arts has long distinguished itself by its commitment to the communities that surround it, with its three-and-a-half decade Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program a leading example of this dedication. The program assists emerging artists of varying degrees of seniority and experience…… Continue reading Artists in the Marketplace at the Bronx Museum
DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS: Art in The Bronx
What art market? Hatuey Ramos-Fermín shows us the thriving and diverse art scene in New York City’s Bronx, where community-driven projects create a robust ecosystem, not an economic system.
Revisiting a heated chapter of Bx history
By Shant Shahrigian for the Riverdale Press A large banner with an AK-47 silhouetted in front of a cutout of the Puerto Rican flag greets visitors to the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ latest show, conveying something of the shock New Yorkers might have felt when the Young Lords took the city by storm starting…… Continue reading Revisiting a heated chapter of Bx history
The Art and Activism of the Young Lords
Three New York City venues look back at the Puerto Rican nationalist group By MARK ARMAO for the Wall Street Journal When garbage started piling up on East Harlem sidewalks in the late 1960s because of irregular trash collection, a group of young activists decided to intervene. They dragged the discarded mattresses, old refrigerators and abandoned…… Continue reading The Art and Activism of the Young Lords
Artists respond to call from the Bronx
Work by more than 70 emerging artists from across New York featured in Bronx Calling by VICTORIA STAPLEY-BROWN for The Art Newspaper Twice each year, 18 emerging artists living in the New York metropolitan area participate in Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, a professional development residency programme whose alumni…… Continue reading Artists respond to call from the Bronx
Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial
Jessica Vaughn, Glory, 2014, Digital Photograph, 30 x40 in Courtesy of the artist July 9 to September 20, 2015 Curated by Bronx-based artists Hatuey Ramos-Fermín and Laura Napier, Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial features the work of seventy-two emerging artists engaged in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program (classes of 2014 and 2015). AIM provides professional development…… Continue reading Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial
‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Turn Grand Concourse Into Thoroughfare for Recreation
By: Erin Clarke for NY1 Link to original article and video A popular event from the past is being revived that will close the Grand Concourse for three days this summer and turn it into a wide thoroughfare open for recreation. NY1’s Erin Clarke filed the following report. No vehicles, not even one, will pass…… Continue reading ‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Turn Grand Concourse Into Thoroughfare for Recreation
Latinos on the line
Latinos on the 6 Train Line: A Tour of BX Latino Environmentalists and More! First published on Bronx River Sankofa by Morgan Powell Let’s enjoy a few of the hundreds of places overfull with environmental, cultural, and advocacy history (1970s to the present) worth savoring along the Pelham Bay/ no. 6 train line in the Bronx,…… Continue reading Latinos on the line
A NECESSARY SHIFT
EFA November 15 – December 21, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 6-8pm A Necessary SHIFT is an exhibition and series of events that celebrates and highlights EFA’s Residency for Arts-Workers as Artists, now entering its fourth year. With the launch of this exhibition, we launch the official name for the residency: SHIFT residency, and highlight the activities…… Continue reading A NECESSARY SHIFT
Arin Rungjang on Cooking up “Golden Teardrop” for the Thai Pavilion in Venice
by Max Crosbie-Jones for Blouin ARTINFO BANGKOK — Conceptual artist Arin Rungjang was recently confirmed as one of two artists due to helm the Thai Pavilion at this summer’s Venice Biennale (the other being Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch). Surprisingly, it appears that his contribution will be quite un-Rungjang like in some respects — free of the audience activities or site-specific responses for which…… Continue reading Arin Rungjang on Cooking up “Golden Teardrop” for the Thai Pavilion in Venice
Process and Progress: Drew Manahan, Meta Local Collaborative & The Bronx River Alliance
On View from February 01 – February 23 Gallery Location: 305 E. 140th Street, #1A, Bronx, NY 10454 Reception: Friday, February 1, 2013, 6-9pm GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday–Friday, 3pm–6:30pm / Saturday, 12pm–5pm FREE ADMISSION Bronx, NY, January, 2013—Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) is proud to announce Process and Progress: Drew Manahan, Meta Local Collaborative & The…… Continue reading Process and Progress: Drew Manahan, Meta Local Collaborative & The Bronx River Alliance
Intensivdagarna 2012, Bronx Museum Teen Council presentation
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Intensivdagarna 2012, Interview Hannie Chia and Hatuey Ramos-Fermin
Intensivdagarna 2012, Interviews Hannie Chia and Hatuey Ramos-Fermín about The Bronx Museum’s Teen Council Program before their presentation.
Celebrating Conversing Bricks
Please join us on Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 6:30 PM @ Hostos Community College, to celebrate Hatuey Ramos-Fermin’s “Conversing Bricks” permanent public art installation. The installation was constructed from bricks sent by an anti-immigrant right wing organizations to those congressional representatives who voted against the legislation to build the wall between Arizona and Mexico. The…… Continue reading Celebrating Conversing Bricks
Citizen Placemakers: Elizabeth Hamby & Hatuey Ramos Fermín Use Art to Bring People Together
By Patra Jongjitirat for Project for Public Spaces Elizabeth Hamby and Hatuey Ramos Fermín are people connectors. As artists, activists, and Bronxites, their creative collaborations are all about gathering information from neighbors and presenting it in ways that allow communities to better understand themselves and the urban spaces they create. The two have worked in all kinds of…… Continue reading Citizen Placemakers: Elizabeth Hamby & Hatuey Ramos Fermín Use Art to Bring People Together
