The Tile Project, Destination: The World Poster (Romania)

TransCultural Exchange’s 2003 Annual Report

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2003 ANNUAL REPORT

Executive Summary 2003 was essentially a planning and fundraising year for TransCultural Exchange’s The Tile Project, Destination: The World. Realizing the need for cross-cultural exchange on a global level and the organization’s desire to create lasting testaments to the organization’s goals of international cooperation, The Tile Project, Destination: The World was created. The Tile Project will culminate in 22 new, permanent public art works, installed at the 22 sites. Each of these public art works include 100+ tiles, made and donated by renowned artists around the globe. In conjunction with the project, over 35 K-12 schools and 19 universities both locally and abroad are creating parallel projects, connecting students together through the borderless medium of art. In this way The Tile Project foster cultural understanding, international cooperation and a shared sense of humanity. In addition, Kim Gledhill corresponded directly with Daniel Liebeskind (who expressed great interest in the project); and the organization submitted a proposal to install a set of international tiles at the World Trade Center Memorial Site, which Andrea Csandi, of the Soros Foundation, also supported. (Project design available upon request.) The Tile Project’s Projected Outcome: Part 1: Innovative Art elevated to the World Stage The project will: 1. Artistically, underscore the importance of context in understanding a work of art. Each site contains essentially the same group of over 100 tiles. However, the tiles take on new meaning and life within each installation, proving that art has the power to transcend boundaries—whether linguistic, nationalistic or geographic. At the same time, the tiles also demonstrate that art is informed by its placement, role within a site, and larger cultural context. 2. Create dynamic, artistically strong, public art works, serving as enduring symbols of international cooperation, innovation and respect. 3. Foster viable and non-threatening means to unite all segments of the world through an engagement of a broad and varied ethnic, cultural, geographic, social and political mix of the world's artists, students and audiences. 3. Initiate and promote collaborations between a diverse group of international artists, their communities, non-profit art institutions and the educational sector at a grass roots sector through 20 short-term artist residencies and public talks.

4. Bring art directly into the public sphere, where it can impact the public and their concerns at no cost to them, enabling all people of all income levels, to benefit from the project. Part 2: Art in the Age of Globalization The project will: 1. Support art and artists that foster, embrace and celebrate the increasing role that globalization plays in the creation, interpretation and display of art today. 2. Encourage each installation ‘contact’ artist to design a composite installation of tiles, sensitive to his/her own artistic, cultural, geographic, social and political heritage. 3. Turn strangers into neighbors and the world into a place in which we all can find a way to exist in harmony and embrace each others' diverse cultures and differences, just as the individual art works (the sets of 100 mosaic tiles) will all be embraced and unified into composite artistic expressions such as mosaic murals or sculptures. Part 3: Education for the Future The project will: 1. Involve artists and students in creating the art works, striving for the aspirations inherent in them, and through discussions, a lively exchange of the ideas surrounding them. Issues to be addressed in the classrooms include the examination of how images reflect their social, political, cultural and geographic context; how that context is part of a wider matrix of social, cultural and geographic globalization; and how both contexts - regional and global-- can support a socially just and diverse world population. As UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Culture states, "Culture in this sense is not only an instrument of peace and conciliation but also a powerful factor of development, and perhaps, even a key to a shared planetary future." 2. Provide related global educational programs, talks and panel discussions to support cross-curriculum studies, including those relating cultural, historical, political, geographic, social and ethnic heritages; and, thus encourage a new generation of multicultural citizens. 3. Engage the latest web-technology to create lasting "virtual" pen pals via our web site to allow students and adults alike to interact as a global community and to strengthen a sense of global unity and understanding. 4. Link a broad base of people around the world in the spirit of learning and creativity through the project's workshops, forging a sense of global friendship and good will.

5. Instill a love for higher learning amongst the K-12 students by (whenever possible) putting them in contact with universities and artists participating in the program. 6. Teach visual literacy by using the tiles and the tile installations as examples of how images convey ideas. 7. Train students to consider how the arts (and all media culture) grow out of and respond to particular cultural contexts, philosophies and ideas 2003 was essentially a planning and fundraising year for TransCultural Exchange’s The Tile Project, Destination: The World. Mary Sherman TransCultural Exchange's Director Caroline Anderson Kim Gledhill Heejung Kim Malvina Sammarone Mary Sherman Sunghoon Yang TransCultural Exchange's Board of Trustees

FINANCIAL REPORT

Fundraising initiatives for the year focused on grant writing (which resulted in one case with the project being forwarded to the second phase of funding with the Nathan Cummings Foundation) and contacting various Cultural Consulates, Embassies and cultural organizations. By December, the Bosnian American Association in Chicago agreed to fund the tile and shipping costs of the Bosnian tiles. The Israeli Embassy agreed to fund the Israeli artist’s travel to the U.S. The Asian Cultural Council agreed to consider TransCultural Exchange’s request for funding for all the Asian artists; and the Romanian Consulate agreed to fund both the Romanian artist’s travel to the US and a preview exhibition of the tiles in their New York galleries throughout the summer of 2004. In addition Ralph Brancaccio contacted the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to act as a sponsor of the project.

INCOME SUMMARY

Budget

Type of Income $5,550.00

Individual

Fundraiser

Foundation $8,500

Corporation

Government $95

Carry over from ‘02

Volunteer

Bank Interest

Total Expenses $14,145

Expense Budget Personnel

Salaries and Wages

Intern, Virginia Ilg $5,000

Intern $2,500

Translation, N. Zildo $250 Volunteer

Webmaster, C. Anderson $500 Volunteer

Educational Consultant $5,000 Volunteer

6 Staff Members $30,000 Volunteer

Operating A

Advertising $180

Accounting $200

Construction Costs

Entertainment

Fundraiser

Legal $1,000

Office supplies $50.00

Postage

Reception Space

Reception, Food, etc. $2,520

Rent or mortgage

Shipping and storage

Stationary

Taxes

Travel $50.00

IRS Filing Fee, Inc. $50.00

Utilities $120

Web Hosting $2,140

Bank Fees $5.00

Other

Total Expenses Actual

$13,815

EXHIBITION and ARTIST EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES

The Tile Project, Destination: The World Project Logistics Emails were sent to 20 artists, who were geographically diverse and remarkably supportive of the organization’s goals, as determined by their participation in the organization’s previous The Coaster Project, Destination: The World. These emails outlined the rules for becoming ‘contact’ artists for The Tile Project, Destination: The World, which included making tiles, designing and securing a site for a set of over 100 tiles, donated by artists around the world. While it was expected that 10 artists would agree to become ‘contact’ artists, all 20 contacted agreed. In addition, Juliet Armstrong of the Centre for Visual Art, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg asked for a set of tiles; and, after realizing that a similar tile project already existed in Wales, TransCultural Exchange joined forces with the Potters Path to provide that organization with tiles that would be installed together as part of their installation at the Chapel of Art. Additionally, TransCultural Exchange began soliciting artists around the world as ‘participating’ artists, meaning that they would agree to make 22 tiles and send them to the 22 installation sites around the world. By December all of the contact artists, participating artists, installation sites, and the details of the artists exchanges (whereby each contact artist would be sent to another installation site to help with the tile installation and workshops) were confirmed. The contact artists and their respective countries include: AZERBAIJAN: Chingiz Babaev BOSNIA: Cazim Hadzimejlic FINLAND: Pirjo Heino http://www.ripustus.fi FRANCE: Ralph Brancacciohttp://www.yproject.fr.st, Leo Hobaica GERMANY: Jannis Markopoulos http://www.markopoulos.de/index_start.htm INDIA: Bharati Kapadia http://bharatikapadia.com ISRAEL: Karmela Berg http://www.geocities.com/karmelab MEXICO: Carlos Pez, Carlos Rodal http://www.carlosrodal.com/ NEW ZEALAND: Roland Idaczyk http://tileproject.orlando.co.nz/ THE PHILIPPINES: Claro Ramirez http://www.transculturalexchange.org/tileproject/artistpages/ramirez/default.htm ROMANIA: Cris Ciobanu http://www.artloggia.com SOUTH AFRICA: Juliet Armstrong SOUTH KOREA: Sunghoon Yang http://www.transculturalexchange.org/artist_sunghoonyang.htm SPAIN: Oscar Villegas Paez TAIWAN: Pan Ping-y TURKEY: Gulay Alpayhttp://www.gulayalpay.com

UNITED STATES: Caroline Anderson, Ruby Barnes, Ginny Sykes http://www.ginnysykes.com (IL), Mary Sherman (MA, Washington DC) http://www.transculturalechange.org/artist_Mary.htm Kim Gledhill (NY) http://www.transculturalexchange.org/artist_kim.htm VIETNAM: Duyen Nguyenhttp://www.duyen-ntp.com, Blue Space Contemporary Arts Center Please note: At each site the “contact” artist designs the structure and design of each installation—in that way, no single viewpoint is foisted on any artist or location, resulting in what the organization considers globalization at its best. List of confirmed International Sites where the artists’ tiles will be installed throughout the world. In each case, the installations will be permanent and will serve as public testaments of global cooperation, tolerance, respect and celebrations of cultural differences. The public sites (and when known installation dates) are: AZERBAIJAN: City Zoo, Baku BOSNIA: Akademija Likovnih Umjetnosti (The Academy of Fine Arts), Sarajevo and Kacuni’s Hastahana tekija Mesudia FINLAND: Cultural Centre Verkatehdas, Hameenlinna; August 30, 2005. FRANCE: Live Art Gallery, Collioure GERMANY: Bar of Modern Art, Berlin INDIA: Khyber Restaurant, Mumbai; May 28, 2004 ISRAEL: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv; November 23, 2004 MEXICO: Jesuit University Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios de Occidente, (ITESO), Guadalajara, Jalisco NEW ZEALAND: Pataka Museum, Porirua City; October 10, 2004 PHILIPPINES: Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila ROMANIA: Town Hall, Bacau SOUTH AFRICA: Centre for Visual Art at University of KwaZulu-Natal SOUTH KOREA: Peace Museum (to be built in late 2005), Seoul SPAIN: City Council of Chinchón, Chinchón; November 12, 2004 TAIWAN: Taipei Artist Village, Taipei TURKEY: Artemis Art Center, Istanbul; May 14, 2004 USA: Mercer Park, New York, November 11, 2004 (currently TransCultural Exchange has a one year permit for this site from the New York Parks Department.) Pauline A. Shaw School, Boston Northside Preparatory School; Chicago; October 9, 2004 The Peace Garden, Washington, DC VIETNAM: Fine Arts Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City; December, 2004 WALES: Centre of Excellence for The Arts, Home of The International Potters' Path (pre-existing site, ongoing installation) The participating artists and their respective countries include: AZERBAIJAN: Chingiz Babaev BOSNIA: Alma Suljevic http://www.womenbeyondborders.org/j_bosnia.htm, Marko Pasalic BRAZIL: Malvina Sammarone http://www.transculturalexchange.org/artist_malvina.htm CANADA: Remigio Valdes de Hoyos CZECH REPUBLIC: Anna Obrova CHINA: Moni Oolyonghai, Wang Qingzhen, Xiao Ruixin DENMARK: Alisa Clausen ENGLAND: Susan Rowe Harrisonhttp://www.lunule.com, Alison Smart

http://www.openwindowexhibition.co.uk FINLAND: Irja Rantala FRANCE: Doris Kloster, Ralph Brancaccio GERMANY: Karola Teschler, Dorothea Fleisshttp://www.dorothea-fleiss.de, Markus Keibel, Tevuha GUYANA: Claude Stephen HONG KONG: Jeffrey du Vallier d’Aragon Aranita INDIA: Nina Sabnani ISRAEL: Neta Dor (Lemelshtrich) ITALY: Elena Mastracci, Youliana Manoleva JAPAN: Zero Higashida KAZAKHSTAN: Assel Alpybayeva LEBANON: Zeina Barakeh MEXICO: Elizabeth Ross, Carmen Gimenez-Cacho http://www.elizabethrossmx.com NEW ZEALAND: Norbert Hausberg, Aimee McLeod NIGERIA: Tonie Okpe NORWAY: Jet Pas PHILIPPINES: Noel El Farol, Eng Chang, Clara Gallardo, mailto:chitzramirez@edsamail.com.phEric Zamuco POLAND: Agnieszka Boron http://www.qnigaz.pl PORTUGAL: José de Guimarães http://www.josedeguimaraes.com ROMANIA: Nicolae Suciu SOUTH AFRICA: Juliet Armstrong SOUTH KOREA: Jhee Hyong Ahn SPAIN: Francisco Ariza, Chu Lily, Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Kristoffer Ardeña SWEDEN: Urban Ramstedt SWITZERLAND: J & W Management Consulting SYRIA: Nur Aida Abdul Rahim, Saeed Abdlkarim Arida (Artist Collaborative) http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.993/index.htm TAIWAN: Howard Chen, Yan Chung-shien, Liu Si-Don, Lien Si-Yi, Xu Zri-Shien, Wu Dar-Kuen, Chen Win-ing, Lien Si-Wei, Chen Chien-Jnng, Huang Lan-ya, Lee Yi-chun, Chen Shiau-Peng, Yi-Li Yeh TURKEY: Özlem Kalkan Erenus http://www.ozlemkalkanerenus.com UNITED STATES: Arkansas: Ed Calhoun California: Christopher Scorfina, Janett Peace Georgia: Ted Cantrell Illinois: Jin Soo Kim, Leonard Lehrer, Frank Crowley and Pauline Kochanski (collaborative team), Sabra Schmuddehttp://www.sabraceramics.com and Travis Alber http://www.thisistravis.com (collaborative team), Karen Ami http://www.mudhousestudio.comhttp://www.mudhousestudio.com Kansas: Paul Hotchkiss, Caroline Anderson, Ruby Barnes, Ginny Sykes. Maryland: Ruth Pettus, Diane Kuthy Massachusetts: Mary Sherman, Betty Lo Cualio, Roger Boyce, Peter Houk, Virginia Mahoney, Steven Aishman, Candy Nartonis, Emily Ford, Ellen Schon, Mary Hughes, Peter Lindenmuth, The Nexus Collaborative, Ean White, Anne Lilly, Marcia Sewall and The MIT Glass Collaborative: David Cheng, Niels Cosman, Emily Ford, Abby Gitlitz, Stephanie Hartman, Michelle McGuire and Erika Schutte Minnesota: Lori Greene Montana: Matt Medium New Jersey: Victoria Hanks New York: Enid Braun, Kim Gledhill, Rania Jawad North Carolina: Lynn Andrus Oklahoma: Shan Goshorn http://www.shangoshorn.com

Washington, DC: Francie Hester http://www.franciehester.com VIETNAM: Tinh Xuan Do, Dung Anh Mai, Hong Son Nguyen Please note: In each site, local artists often are contributing tiles to the installations as well. Additionally, the international artists participating in the Project represent a diverse mix of the world’s population.

EDUCATION PROGRAMMING

Also in the summer of 2003, Virginia Ilg joined the organization’s staff as an intern from Northeastern University. She was instrumental in contacting k-12 schools and universities around the world for The Tile Project’s educational component. By September over 2000 students were signed on to exchange emails, art works and biographies as well as create a documentary exhibit of their activities at their institutions. Caroline Anderson also arranged for Smart Media Design to donate virtual space for all the schools to have website and email capability. By the fall of 2003 the following schools had begun to email each other: UNIVERSITIES: AUSTRALIA: Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Contact: Mitsuo Shoji BOSNIA: Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo, Contact: Cazim Hadzimejlic CHINA: Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, Contact: Xiao Yunxi FINLAND: Wetterhoff, Hämeelinna, Contact: Sirkka Hämäläinen or Jari Vesterinen GERMANY: Hochschule für Gestaltung, Schwäbisch HallContact: Iso Wagner INDIA: National Institute of Design, Contact: Nina Sabnani MEXICO: Jesuit University Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios de Occidente, (ITESO), Guadalajara, Jalisco, Contact: Carlos Rodal NEW ZEALAND: Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Poirirua City, Contact: Drew James THE PHILIPPINES: University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts Quezon City, Contact: Noell El Farol SOUTH AFRICA: Centre for Visual Art, University of KwaZulu-Natal,Pietermaritzburg, Contact: Professor Juliet Armstrong UNITED STATES California Institute of the Arts, Contact: Leo Hobaica Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Contact: Mary Seyfarth Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, Contact: Mark Cooper Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Contact: Peter Houk Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY, Contact: Professor Robert L. Wood Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, Contact: Jürgen Faust University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, Contact: Whitney Forsyth VIETNAM: Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Contact: Long Nguyen

PARTICIPATING HIGH SCHOOLS (grades 7 - 12) AUSTRALIA: Baulkham Hills High School, Baulkham Hills, Contact: Emma J. Stevens DENMARK: Aabenraa Friskole, Aabenraa, Contact: Bente Sloth-Møller ECUADOR: Colegio Americano de Quito, Contact: Carla Vorbeck FINLAND: Kaurialan Lukio, Hämeenlinna, Contact: Liisa Vartiainen INDIA: New Era High School, Mumbai, Contact: Shital Mehta MEXICO: Instituto Educativo Olinca, IB World School, Mexico City, Contact: Charles Kerbel NORWAY: Prinsdal School, Oslo, Contact: Knut Pedersen THE UNITED STATES: Illinois: North Side Prep High School, Chicago, Contact: Ginny Sykes Maryland: The Stadium School, Baltimore, Contact: Mary Welliver-Dillon Massachusetts: Avon Middle-High School, Avon , Contact: Aase Sangild

Washington, DC: Francis Cardozo High School, Contact: George Tezlow PARTICIPATING GRADE SCHOOLS (grades K - 6) DENMARK: Varnes Skole, Aabenraa, Contact: Aase Sangild INDIA: Dhirubhia Ambani International School, Mumbai, Contact: Mohua Ray MEXICO: Instituto Educativo Olinca, IB World School, Mexico City, Contact: Charles Kerbel PHILIPPINES: Westfields International School, Angeles City, Contact: Ms. Violeta J. de Jesus THE UNITED STATES: California: Ohlone Elementary School, Palo Alto, Contact: Bill Overton Creative Arts Charter School, San Francisco, Contact: Leslie Keir Seneca Center, San Leandro , Contact: Missy Keadle Santee School, San Jose, Contact: Lydia Sweger Illinois: Ravenswood School, Chicago, Contact: Kitty Conde Iowa: Tipton Elementary School, Tipton, Contact: Mary Ann Haley Maryland: The Stadium School, Baltimore. Contact: Mary Welliver-Dillon Massachusetts: Wildwood Elementary School, Amherst, Contact: Michael Silverstone Somerville Charter School, Somerville, Contact: Doug Anderson William E. Norris School, Southampton, Contact: Leslie di Curci New York: Fieldston Lower School, Bronx, Contact: Diane Churchill North Carolina: Davidson Elementary, Charlotte, Contact: Lynn D. Andrus

Audience: 50,000+

APPENDIX 1 detail of World Trade Center Memorial proposal design team: M. Sherman, K. Gledman, S. Vasquez, U. Ramstedt http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/ent/entI=122240.h

In the south, interior wall of Structure 2 are “Rays of Hope” – irregular vertical lines of tiles created and donated by hundreds of artists from every corner of the globe, stretching up from the floor, turning into glass tiles (above eye level) to serve as a concrete testimony that global cooperation and international goodwill is possible (This international tile project is already underway). Please note: If desired, or wished, the set of international tiles can be considered as a separate part of this proposal and could be placed at another location within the World Trade Center complex. Scale ¼” = 1 foot