Virtual Visting Artist Workshop: Ghana Think Tank

The McCarl Coverlet Gallery is a nonprofit cultural organization that collects, preserves, interprets, and disseminates the history of weaving and folk traditions in the Northeastern region of the United States.

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Join us for a series of artist talks that focus on the intersections between art and activism. Additional material available for educators.

<p>ViVA is pleased to partner with St. Vincent College’s dual museums – the Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery and Verostko Center for the Arts -- to announce their upcoming joint fall series of virtual visiting artist talks and conversations. Scheduled for four Thursday evenings throughout the semester, each talk will take place over Zoom at 7:00 PM Eastern.</p><p>All four artists and collectives are united by their focus on interrelated themes that motivate their artistic work and creative practices, teaching, and community activism, including anti-racism, Black Lives Matter and racial inequality; the history of slavery; resilience, wellness and mental health; and power and privilege, as they intersect with climate change and environmental justice. The schedule is as follows:</p><h1>Ghana Think Tank: Thursday, October 7, 7:00 PM Eastern 
</h1><p>Award-winning Ghana ThinkTank is an international artist collective that “develops the first world” by asking their “third world” think tanks to intervene in problems centered in the so-called “developed” nations, thereby undermining the traditional power dynamics of geopolitical relationships. Their think tanks include: a group of bike mechanics in Ghana; a rural radio station in El Salvador; Sudanese refugees in Israel; an artist collective in Iran; and a group of incarcerated girls in the Boston penal system. As the groups propose solutions that are implemented in the “first world” stereotypes are exposed. They have worked in Ghana, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Iran, Serbia, Indonesia, Sudan and Morocco, and their projects have been featured in the Venice Biennial of Architecture, the National Museum of Wales, Hong Kong/Shenzhen Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, among others. Collective members in this series: Christopher Robbins (Associate Professor and Director, School of Art + Design, SUNY-Purchase) and Maria Del Carmen Montoya (Assistant Professor of Art, Corcoran School of Art at George Washington University).
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<h1>Ghana Think Tank</h1><p></p><p>Artist’s website: https://www.ghanathinktank.org/<a href="http://jordanjweber.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a></p><p>Social media:</p><p> twitter: @GhanaThinkTank</p><p>instagram: ghanathinktank</p><h3>Highlights</h3><p>HIGHLIGHTS</p><p>​Maria del Carmen Montoya (she/her) and Christopher Robbins (he/him) are core artists and organizers</p><p>Their most recent work, The American Riad, partners with the Oakland Avenue Artist Coalition, the North End Woodward  Community Organization, Central Detroit Christian CDC, and Affirming Love Ministries Church, to bring the tradition of the Islamic Riad to address the housing crisis in the North End of Detroit</p><p> Not all of their works require large infrastructural change. Addressing a generation gap in Wales, they collected funny, dirty memories from the elderly, record them and played them to younger people to show that when old people were young, they weren’t that different from today’s generation</p><p> They recently participated in the artistic platform Ready by the Related Tactics in an exhibition on climate change shown at the Berkeley Arts Center and the Wexner Center for the Arts</p><p> They were a 2013 Creative Capital Awardee</p><p>THEMES</p><p>Anti-Racism, Black Lives Matter &amp; Racial Inequality; Climate Change; Economic Disparity; Empathy; Equality &amp; Equity; Global Systems, Trade, and Development; Immigration &amp; Migration; Populism &amp; Authoritarianism; Power &amp; Privilege; Resilience, Wellness &amp; Mental Health</p><p></p><p>​</p><p></p><h3></h3>

<h1>Attention Educators (or interested parties), please contact lauren.churilla@stvincent.edu for access to supplementary readings, videos, discussion prompts and classroom material.</h1>

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