GLE 110 RESPECT : Websites

"Hari Kirin (b. Joan Hanley in Queens, NY 1955) has been a professional artist since finishing her BFA at Hartford Art School in 1976. Her twenties were spent between NY, at the School of Visual Arts or Columbia University, and Hartford, CT, where she participated in Real Art Ways. During this time she met her spiritual mentor, Mahan Tantric, Yogi Bhajan. In 1986 she moved to Cambridge MA to pursue her interest in art, healing and spirituality. In 1988 She received an MA in Creative Arts Therapies from Lesley University. At Lesley she was deeply influenced by psychologist James Hillman and writer Thomas Moore’s ideas about images. She began exploring these ideas in her painting, collaborative group performances, and therapeutic art events. She returned to graduate school and received an MFA degree from Vermont College in 2001."

"Art for Water conducts programs in public and private schools, universities, graduate schools, clubs, churches, civic organizations, and businesses. It is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization."

"Candy Chang is an artist who is passionate about the ways our public spaces can help us make sense of our communities and ourselves. Her work has been exhibited in the Venice Biennale, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Centre for the Living Arts, and the Southbank Centre. She is a TED Senior Fellow, a Tulane Urban Innovation Fellow, a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader, and was named a “Live Your Best Life” Local Hero by Oprah Magazine. She was also named one of the Top 100 Leaders in Public Interest Design, one of the GOOD 100, and one of Ad Age’s 50 most influential creative thinkers and doers."

"Nancy Grace Horton's Learning to See programs are community participatory projects that simultaneously teach the art of photography and document local events, traditions, and neighborhoods."

"The mission of The NAMES Project Foundation is to preserve, care for and use The AIDS Memorial Quilt to foster healing, heighten awareness, and inspire action in the age of AIDS. Specifically, The NAMES Project works to display The Quilt in nearly 1,000 venues each year, to conserve and care for the aging 54-ton tapestry and it’s half a million piece archive, and to encourage and support the creation of new Quilt panels for this ever-evolving handmade memorial."