Anita Glesta Featured in NY Daily News Story
Making Art That Counts! City Sculptor Anita Glesta Used Number of Notions In Census HQ Plan
BY VINNIE ROTONDARO
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Thursday, July 15th 2010, 11:18 PM
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Art by the Numbers at the U.S. Census Bureau
The
Census Project is a large-scale public art
installation - small park, part sculpture, part meditation center, and an entirely
relaxing place on the campus of the U.S. Census Bureau in Suitland, Maryland.
Created by artist Anita Glesta,
"The Census Project" covers more than seven acres. It has a pathway
that winds up and down along the grounds like a statistical graph, past
sculptures with hidden symbols to be discovered around every curve. The project
attempts to pay homage to the census bureau worker while humanizing the
statistics they are charged with gathering.
Stephanie Kaye met with the artist, and
with Christine Ewing, Regional Fine Arts Officer with the GSA's Art
for Architecture program.
The Census Project will be unveiled in
Suitland, Maryland, on Monday, July 12, 2010, and will be open to the public by
appointment.
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Ewing and
Kaye sit on the inverted "Number 8." Courtesy of: Nancy Wilochka
View more images from this gallery.
Further press for Census Walk
project,
inaugurated July 12, 2010:
Washington City Paper :
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2010/05/27/anita-glesta-creates-census-themed-public-art-project/
Domus :
http://www.domusweb.net/upd_Art/article.cfm?idtipo=3&id=1638
Big Think :
http://bigthink.com/ideas/20648
Hyperallergic:
http://hyperallergic.com/7274/census-anita-glesta/
Art Daily:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=38362
SCULPTURE MAGAZINE
WEB SPECIAL, January/February 2010
On Collaboration ( A Personal Account)
By Anita Glesta
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I am pleased to be able to contribute a work to the climate change conference in Copenhagen:
International Artists Raise Challenging Questions on Gender and Climate Change during COP15
ARTPORT_making waves and The Global Gender and Climate Alliance
Present:
(Re-) Cycles of Paradise
December 7-18, 2009
Daily 11am-7pm
DGI byen, Hall 55
Tietgensgade 65
DK - 1704 Copenhagen V
Denmark
dgi-byen.com
Kim Abeles (USA), Subhankar Banerjee (India/USA), Charley Case (Belgium), Meschac Gaba (Benin/NL), Anita Glesta (USA), Nnenna Okore (Nigeria/USA), Frances Whitehead (USA), Insa Winkler (Germany).
In (Re-) Cycles of Paradise, international artists explore the interrelation of gender and climate change while scientists and heads of states draw up global climate agreements at the most significant United Nations Conference on this topic since Kyoto.
The exhibition concept originates from the hypothesis that the world is, by necessity, the only possible paradise that we can create and conserve. The artists investigate the correlation of two parallel imbalances that are threatening this “paradise”: attitudes toward gender roles and the preservation of nature. In fact, women are not only suffering most from social, cultural, and religious inequality but also from the consequences of nature thrown out of balance.
Through photography, drawing, multi-media installation, and interactive performance, the artists use the context of climate change to examine the vulnerability and strength of women; the control, or lack thereof, by women over resources; the consequences of forced emigration; illnesses affecting women; and the resilience and empowerment of women as they face all of these difficulties; at times proposing innovative ways to recreate a new and sustainable paradise.
ARTPORT_making waves invites you to visit the exhibition at DGI byen, where most side-events by the Danish Foreign Ministry will be held.
Your ARTPORT team:
Corinne Erni, Co-Founder and Co-Director New York
Anne-Marie Melster, Co-Founder and Co-Director Valencia, Spain
Oliver Orest Tschirky, Director Zurich, Switzerland
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The Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) is a joint initiative of numerous United Nations and international non-profit agencies that is raising awareness about the gender dimensions of climate change. WWW.GENDER-CLIMATE.ORG
