Welcome To The NeighborHOOD Volume #1
A community arts project in collaboration with youth from Literacy For Environmental Justice
by Wendy Testu & Monica Jensen
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About the Book
Volume #1
Preview the some of the book by clicking the link above.
This was the first book in a series of Welcome To The NeighborHOOD books.
By purchasing your copy you will be directly supporting Literacy For Environmental Justice and The EcoCenter. All Proceeds go directly to support their programming!
Visitors brought their copies of this book to the galleries and used it as their own personal journal of the project. There are blank pages for writing and drawing thoughts and for adding more images later.
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The Project:
The Welcome To The NeighborHOOD Project is a community arts project by Wendy Testu: A collaboration with artists Robert Larson, Keba Armand-Konte, Taylor Neaman-Goudey, Eve S. Mosher, Sam Slater, Monica Jensen and youth from Literacy For Environmental Justice. A residency over the past year has lead the participants to create work about their personal experiences, gentrification and displacement, the opposing forces of man vs. nature, art as activism, the positive people and influences in their community and the environmental and social justice issues facing the community of the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco.
The artwork has been installed in interactive fort installations for the Sargent Johnson Gallery in the African American Arts And Culture Complex, Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum and Art 94124 in San Francisco and next year will travel to The EcoCenter in Herons Head Park (San Francisco’s first public %100 off-the-grid building).
This small book shows our process, documents the journey we have been on and will be continued with additional volumes.
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Visit vimeo to view the film in progress:
Google it (Vimeo, Wendy Testu)
Visit the events page for the latest updates:
http://welcometotheneighborhood.eventbrite.com/
The website:
www.welcometotheneighborhood.us
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This project has been made possible with the generous support from:
The San Francisco Arts Commission
The LEF Foundation
The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation
The San Francisco Foundations-Koshland Program
Literacy For Environmental Justice
The EcoCenter
T-Mobile
Motorola
The African American Arts And Culture Complex; Sargent Johnson Gallery
Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum
Art 94124
Many many volunteers
And you, thank you for your purchase and your support
thanks for watching!
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
# of Pages: 74 - Publish Date: Oct 20, 2009
- Keywords Environmental Art, Social Justice, Political Art, Community Art, Installation Art, Welcome To The Neighborhood, African American Art, Wendy Testu, Robert Larson, Keba Armand Konte, Taylor Neaman-Goudey, Eve S. Mosher, Monica Jensen, Chitose Baba, Sam Slater, Collaboration, Photography, Youth
About the Creator
These small books document the journey we have been on with the Welcome To The NeighborHOOD project, a community arts project by Wendy Testu. A collaboration with artists Robert Larson, Keba Armand-Konte, Taylor Neaman-Goudey, Eve S. Mosher, Sam Slater, Monica Jensen and youth from Literacy For Environmental Justice. A residency from 2008-11' has lead the participants to create work about their personal experiences, gentrification and displacement, the opposing forces of man vs. nature, art as activism, the positive people and influences in their community and the environmental and social justice issues facing the community of the Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco. Every meeting was filmed and photographed in order to create these books and a documentary film. To serve as a reminder of the process we went through and ultimately to reflect upon what we learned from each other. Visit vimeo and the website above for the latest updates Google (Vimeo, Wendy Testu)