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SUMMARY:OPA Live! A Tale of Two GASPs
DESCRIPTION:Host Rachel Filippini takes over the OPA Instagram account for OPA Live! with guest Michael Hansen. \nA Tale of Two GASPs\nThe Group Against Smog Pollution (GASP) in Pittsburgh and the Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (GASP) in Birmingham\, Alabama have recently teamed up to educate and engage youth in each region on air quality issues\, through their Fresh Voices for Clean Air program. The two cities\, although over 700 miles apart and in very different regions of the country\, followed similar patterns of urban development\, relying heavily in the past on the iron and steel industries to propel their economic growth. A century ago\, Birmingham was nicknamed the “Pittsburgh of the South”. Similarly\, the cities have experienced some of the worst air quality in the nation. While there have certainly been improvements to the air in both regions\, air pollution remains a significant public health concern in Pittsburgh and Birmingham. Together\, the two GASPs will reflect on their work and how it is shaped by their cities’ histories. \nAbout Rachel Filippini\nRachel Filippini is the executive director of the Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP). She has been with the organization since 2001. Rachel has a degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Her work includes spearheading Allegheny County air quality legislation\, increasing GASP’s educational work in local communities and schools\, and continuing to keep air pollution issues in the public eye. In 2009\, she was named one of Pittsburgh’s 40 under 40 and in 2019 one of “25 Essential Pittsburghers” for her work on “the forefront of the battle for clean air.” Rachel has served on Allegheny County’s Air Pollution Control Advisory Committee since 2017. \nAbout Michael Hansen\nMichael Hansen is the executive director of GASP\, a nonprofit advocacy organization working for healthy air and environmental justice in the Greater-Birmingham area. He is also a founding board member of the Southeast Climate & Energy Network\, an organization confronting the climate crisis by creating strategic alignment\, growing capacity\, and building power among member organizations and their communities in the South. \n 
URL:https://shiftworkspgh.org/event/opa-live-a-tale-of-two-gasps/
LOCATION:Instagram Live
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:OPA Live! with Naomi Chambers and Dail Chambers
DESCRIPTION:Naomi Chambers takes over the OPA Instagram account for OPA Live! \nPittsburgh artist Naomi Chambers and her sister-in-law\, St. Louis based artist Dail Chambers\, will discuss the “calling” of becoming an artist because it is in one’s family line. Together\, they will explore what an artist family is\, what it’s like to be a family member\, and how families can use art to heal and create wealth. \nAbout Naomi Chambers\nNaomi Chambers is a painter and assemblage sculptor born in Pittsburgh in 1987. She graduated with a double degree from the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Studio Arts and Marketing in 2009. In 2012\, she took the leap to be a full time artist\, and had her first solo show in January 2013. In 2017\, she and her husband worked with a collective of artists to open FlowerHouse\, a community art studio and creative space in Wilkinsburg where they offer workshops and classes for the predominantly black community. In 2017\, she was also awarded the Investing In Professional Artist grant from the Heinz Endowment and Pittsburgh Foundation. In 2018\, She had her first solo exhibition\, Communal Futures at an arts institution\, August Wilson Center: African American Cultural Center. \nAbout Dail Chambers\nDail Chambers is a visual artist and creative consultant. Her visual art practice is a multimedia exploration in genealogy\, women’s narratives\, and social art. She has received numerous awards and fellowships throughout the United States. As a homeschooling\, teaching artist she has traveled internationally\, implementing lesson plans to enhance and motivate inter-generational learning environments.
URL:https://shiftworkspgh.org/event/opa-live-with-naomi-chambers-and-dail-chambers/
LOCATION:Instagram Live
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:OPA Live! with Sculpture Support System and Jim Walker
DESCRIPTION:Sculpture Support System takes over the OPA Instagram account for OPA Live! \nSculpture Support System will talk with Jim Walker\, Executive Director of Big Car in Indianapolis Indiana. Their conversation will engage issues of collaborative art making in the public realm. Big Car Collaborative utilizes tools of culture and creativity to build community and social cohesion — helping connect people as a way to boost quality of life. Formed in 2004 and based in Indianapolis\, Indiana USA\, Big Car also works in other communities and collaborate with artists from around the world. \nAbout Sculpture Support System\nSculpture Support System is a collaborative endeavor of artists Sharon Massey and Sean Derry and their students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. \nInspired by a desire to democratize art and artistic processes\, Massey and Derry formed Sculpture Support System in 2019. The group collaborates on projects that engage community members in a range of art making processes. Sculpture Support System is indebted to the field of Social Practice\, which seeks to make Art more inclusive and participatory. Each member of Sculpture Support System maintains individual studio art practices but come together as collaborators to work on a larger scale and to develop projects targeted at expressing underrepresented voices. They intend for their collaborative work to empower project participants and fellow collaborators to reimagine the role of art in society. \nAbout Jim Walker\nJim Walker is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Big Car Collaborative in Indianapolis\, Indiana. Walker is a social practice artist\, placemaker\, community builder\, designer\, teacher\, and writer who believes everyone deserves open access to the joys of art\, creativity\, and great public places. Jim — who worked previously as a journalist (writer\, photographer\, editor\, and designer) — is a student of cities and enjoys walking\, biking\, travel\, and baseball. He lives with his family in the Garfield Park neighborhood. \n 
URL:https://shiftworkspgh.org/event/opa-live-with-sculpture-support-system-and-jim-walker/
LOCATION:Instagram Live
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SUMMARY:OPA Live! with Ann Tarantino and Jennie Lamensdorf
DESCRIPTION:Ann Tarantino will take over OPA’s Instagram account to host OPA Live! with her guest Jennie Lamensdorf. They will discuss Lamensdorf’s work as an arts worker\, activist\, curator\, throughout her career. The conversation will explore how the arts can catalyze community engagement\, how major institutions can support artists and communities\, and the intersection of creative placemaking with the visual arts. \nAbout Ann Tarantino\nAnn Tarantino is an artist working across drawing\, painting\, installation\, and site-specific works of public art. Her work has been exhibited widely in the US and overseas and has appeared in settings ranging from museums and galleries to botanical gardens and city streets. Recent exhibitions and projects include commissions for the Pittsburgh International Airport\, collaborations with the Borough of Millvale\, PA and Pittsburgh’s Office of Public Art; Cloud Countries\, a new installation created for the Pittsburgh International Airport; a public-scale painting commissioned by the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority’s DotART program; and a solo exhibition of new paintings with Davis Editions (Phoenix\, AZ). \nShe has twice been featured in New American Paintings\, and was a 2016- 17 recipient of a Fulbright Core Scholar Award for artistic practice in Brazil. Tarantino earned an honors degree in Visual Arts from Brown University and a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in Painting from The Pennsylvania State University. \nAbout Jennie Lamensdorf\nJennie Lamensdorf is an arts worker based in Los Angeles and San Francisco\, CA. Her work focuses on expanding audiences for the art of our time by bringing challenging and engaging work to non-traditional exhibition spaces because art has the power to encourage thoughtfulness\, empathy\, and creative problem solving. \nJennie is the Bay Area Lead of the global Facebook Art Department. The program includes the Artist in Residence (FB AIR)\, Analog Research Lab (ARL)\, and Creative Engagement programs\, which have a collective mission to build community through creativity. Facebook’s Art Department also presents public-facing programs and supports projects that bring together diverse communities in real life and encourage the exploration of creative and critical thinking. \nFrom 2012 – 2019\, Jennie was Director and Curator of Time Equities Art in Buildings. She is also an independent curator and writer; her most recent project\, Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape\, opened at the University of Buffalo Art Galleries in 2018 and traveled to the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois. \nIn 2016\, Lamensdorf co-founded Forward Union\, a coalition-building initiative connecting social justice organizations with artists and creative communities.\nLamensdorf is a Trustee of the San Jose Museum of Art and a Board Member of Art Omi in Ghent\, NY. She received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin.
URL:https://shiftworkspgh.org/event/opa-live-with-ann-tarantino-and-jennie-lamensdorf/
LOCATION:Instagram Live
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SUMMARY:OPA Live! with Lena Chen and Aino El Solh
DESCRIPTION:Lena Chen and Aino El Solh are members of the Berlin-based artist collective\, Maternal Fantasies. Both artists are interested in the intersections between care work\, motherhood\, and healing practices. While Lena joined the group as the youngest member (and the only one without a child)\, Aino had a pregnancy and a second child over the course of her involvement with the group. The artists will discuss what they’ve learned from their experiences working in a large collective that actively involves children in the production process. They’ll also discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the group’s working process and personal lives as caregivers. \nAbout Lena Chen\nI am a Chinese American artist working across performance and social practice. My work has been exhibited and performed across North America and Europe. As the co-founder of Heal Her\, I have partnered with artists\, therapists\, and communities in seven countries to support survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Currently\, I am a Freshworks Artist-In-Residence at Kelly Strayhorn Theater\, the inaugural Vance Waddell Artist-In-Residence at Wave Pool Gallery\, and a grantee of the Office of Public Art’s Artists Bridging Social Distance in the Public Realm Initiative. I earned a B.A. in sociology from Harvard University\, and am completing a MFA at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art. \nAbout Aino El Solh\nI am an artist from Helsinki Finland and currently living in Berlin with my two children. I studied art in the Willem de Kooning Akademie in Rotterdam\, where I lived in an old factory and was engaged in the underground cultural scene. From Rotterdam\, I returned shortly to Helsinki to complete my MA in the University of Art and Design in the Department of Environmental Art\, working simultaneously as a freelance journalist and a waitress. In late 2009\, I moved to Germany with a newborn baby\, in order to rebuild my life in another relatively long integration process. For ten years\, I hosted holiday guests and developed my artwork on the side. In 2017\, I joined the Maternal Fantasies collective and started educating myself to become a healer. \nAbout Maternal Fantasies\nMaternal Fantasies is an interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin. Recipients of the 2019/20 M.1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation Advancement Award\, we have exhibited in Germany\, Austria\, USA\, and UK. We shape the discourse on motherhood and the politics of care through collective artistic processes while enhancing the visibility of contemporary intersectional-eco-feminist positions. From writing autobiographical responses to classic feminist texts to devising performances using children’s games\, our multi-media art practice favors inclusive community-oriented experiments as alternatives to traditional hierarchies of art production. Bridging theory and practice\, our strategy transforms research on motherhood(s)\, earth care and care work into frameworks for immersive modes of critique. We integrate rotational authorship and tools of collective care in our mode of our production\, opening up the artistic process for (our) children to participate in. Current members are Aino El Solh\, Hanne Klaas\, Isabell Spengler\, Lena Chen\, Magdalena Kallenberger\, Maicyra Leao and Mikala Hyldig Dal.
URL:https://shiftworkspgh.org/event/opa-live-with-lena-chen-and-aino-el-solh/
LOCATION:Instagram Live
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