AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Been listening a lot to Madredeus lately.

http://open.salon.com/blog/kevin_lee/2009/06/02/three_rs_isnt_enough_for...

A blog posted on the Huffington Post:

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Can Artists Save The World?
by Julia Moulden

A photograph of me circa 1977 hangs over my desk. It was taken by Toni Beatty, an American photographer I met when we shared adjoining villas and a garden in Tepotzlan, Mexico.

"Why didn't you include artists in your book?" she wrote in an email after reading We Are the New Radicals. My reply was honest -- it hadn't occurred to me. But, as you might imagine, I've been collecting examples ever since, and will write about arts and social change soon.

AMP's May Newsletter is out.

Click here to have a look.

"I Will Not Pay Taxes Until"

by Heathcote Williams

Thanks to Bahar for sending this to me.

From YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAjItY7X0Yc

Prisoners at Cebu are considered the most dangerous offenders in the Philippines. But thanks to four hours of dance lessons a day, their behaviour has been transformed.
Previously, Cebu prison was a wretched place ruled by rival gangs. But when the warden introduced dance lessons, everything changed. "Everyone became friends". Now the prisoners spend most of the day practising new routines. Videos of them dancing to 80s classics have become a big hit on YouTube.

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This fascinating bit of info was posted in the Art4Development listserv:

Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information

Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information and Eye in the Sky: JPL's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

PASADENA, CA.- Organized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art
(PMCA) and curated by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Visual
Strategist Dan Goods and Mars Public Engagement Outreach Coordinator
David Delgado, Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information
explores how scientific data can be experienced and translated by
artists into new and startling forms. This exhibition challenges the
viewer's assumptions by exploring the beauty inherent in the
information and asking viewers to see science in a new light. These

http://www.rediscovercenter.org/

Attention Artists focusing on collage, found art, fiber arts and assemblage. The reDiscover Center a non-profit arts and education center in Culver City is THE source for inexpensive materials for your next work of art. Our warehouse is full of objects from fabric, to wire, to metal, to wood, to foam and glass. All proceeds go to benefit our environmental arts programs for children. Come out to support a great cause and shop for some fabulous new materials to inspire your work!

WAREHOUSE HOURS
Saturdays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesdays 2:30 to 5:30.

12958 Washington Blvd. Culver City 90066

**Please enter the warehouse from the alley. We hold classes in front and do not want to interrupt. Thank you

from LA Culture Net

Here's an intriguing organization that was just brought to my attention: Wage for Work, based on the premise that art contributes to the economy, and that artists should receive "payment for making the world more interesting."

http://www.wageforwork.com/wage.html

Lots of links to look at on their page. They have a point.