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MART: Mindful Art for the Real Times


"Your Friendly Neighborhood Wake-Up Call"

Mindful Art for the Real Times is focused on bridging the gap between cutting-edge urban art and social activism for a better world. Our coalition of artists uses their creative gifts to fuse the power of image into an influential tool for social change. By creating art that aligns with a theme promoting change for a better world, each MART exhibit will show art as an indispensable element of any social movement. For all MART exhibitions, literature is displayed with the artwork, resulting in a poetic interplay of dialogue and imagery, and a thought-provoking message to inspire viewers to action.

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OUR UPCOMING EXHIBITION: On April 11-14, MART will make its art exhibition debut, Salvage for MART (S*MART) for Massachusetts Power Shift, a 4-day event on climate change that will take place at Boston University (www.masspowershift.org). Salvage for MART is an exhibition that showcases environmentally sustainable art created from eco-friendly mediums. Mediums have always been a reflection of the culture in which the art was made. Now in an age where there is a global array of material to choose from, the freedom to create art from innovative yet unsustainable and even toxic materials is a temptation. However, there is a new culture emerging amongst the wasteful, unsustainable culture of the past. As artists in this exhibition choose nature-based mediums over unsustainable products, they set an example for others: they pave the way for a new generation of creative, mindful thinkers who are ready to make the shift to greener lifestyles, and preserve the world for generations to come.

VENUE: The art will be featured at Espresso Royale Café on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston for the entire month of April, conveniently coinciding with Earth Month.

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Art Exhibition for the Boston OneVoice Echo at the Middle East, Cambridge

"Welcome to My Space"
You may call it Mecca, the Holy Land or Bethlehem. Walden Pond if you're a Transcendentalist. Atheist? Agnostic? You have yours too. It just might be that hidden bench from [your hometown here] that overlooks a dazzling view…where certain things happened that you'd never tell your Mom about. All of these exemplify the sacred spaces where people from all backgrounds congregate, collide, and make attempts to coincide. Despite the collage of footprints amongst our own that blaze trails along our little wedges of sanctity, we still have managed to root some part of ourselves into the soil. As times grows on, this patch of land becomes sentimental. This art exhibit explores the concept of Jerusalem and other "Holy Lands" that people have cultivated as their own. These spaces are not about the land or sea, but the seeds of identity, belonging, and history (ancestral or personal) that we have planted within them. The exhibit brings to the viewer's consciousness a glimpse of the complexities that come with sharing one's own space for the sake of peace.

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