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Update #6: Project Wrap Up and LInk to Photos
Hello Backers,
Here is the last communication from me through Kickstarter for this phase of the project.
I have posted some photos of this wonderful project on a mobile me account:
http://gallery.me.com/laureltrue#100059&bgcolor=black&view=grid
There are around 225 photos.
If you want a more Cliff Notesy version, please check out my True Mosaic Studio Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/album.php...
You'll have to become a "Fan" to see them I think (?). But that is where I post lots of stuff anyway. So maybe you might want to keep in touch that way.
Thank you again for your pledges and support!
There are some very direct and results that have come out of this project including:
* Over 50 kids and young adults learned skills in making permanent mosaics from start to finish. Counting community observers, there were literally hundereds of people involved in this project.
* Many local community members expressed an interest in building a business doing mosaic work.
* The mayor of Jacmel has made the mosaic mural and the 200 + feet of wall we will cover over the next 6 months into a point of interest for the town. The area where the mosaic wall is will become of focal point for tourism in Jacmel.
* Your donations bought a dozen sets of professional mosaic tools that were donated to the ACFFC program and over 50 participants learned how to use them- and will keep using them!
* Several commission opportunities have come out of this project and I will be training ACFFC young adults in building their commissions business over the coming months.
* We liasoned with other Jacmel- based arts groups, including FOSAJ. I gave a special focused lesson to adult FOSAJ artists so they can work with ACFFC and start incorporating mosaic into their repitoire.
* Everyone had a really good time and chose to focus most on the healing aspects of the Tree of Life as a symbol of growth, re- growth and community rootedness, even in the wake of a disaster of epic proportions.
I will be returning to Haiti for Phase Two of the project in August, which I am very excited about.
If you would like to support Phase Two of the mosaic mural wall, please contact me at Laurel True at mac dot com if you woudl like to make another pledge for Phase Two of this project.
Thanks much,
Mesi Anpil,
Laurel True
Update #5: Back from Haiti and reporting that the project was a huge success!
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Posted on June 25, 2010
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Update #4: We have reached and exceeded our funding goal!
Thank you so much Everyone!
Over a hundred people have donated funds for the Mosaic Mural Project in Haiti and we are thrilled and grateful to all. We are over 110% funded and pledges are still coming in with still a week to go before our funding deadline!
Thank you so much for your pledges, for passing the word to your friends and family and for helping to bring this collective and collaborative vision into reality.
Thank you ACFFC, Nancy Josephson, Judy Hoffman and Jen Panteleon for all your support, trust and advice!
We are getting ready to pack our bags full of project supplies, tools for the ACFFC mosaic program, school supplies, tarps and sanitary supplies. Thank you to those of you who donated supplies and materials.
Director George Metellus and the kids at ACFFC have been collecting materials for the project steadily and have been to P au P to collect donated tiles from the Mosaique Gardere factory.
We are open and ready to embark on this wonderful project and will post a follow up e-mail after we return.
Please tun into the Mosaic of Art Blog Radio program on Sunday, June 6th, as I will be interviewed along with project participants live from Jacmel , Haiti by MOA founder George Fishman, who was the connector for this project.
The show airs at 3 pm eastern time and can be accessed on the website anytime thereafter.
Here is a link:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mosaicofart
Thank you again!
Laurel True and Erin Rogers
Update #3: We are so close to our funding goal!
Thank you to everyone again)
PLEASE spread the word for this last push to reach our funding goal on Kickstarter!
This has been amazing in that we have over 80 backers- some who have pledged $10 and some hundreds. Every little bit helps and we so appreciate it.
It looks like this project really has legs and we are very excited to meet our partners at ACFFC in Jacmel and to work with several Haitian arts groups to vision a much larger and ongoing mosaic project. So this first project will be about planting many seeds.
In addition to completing our fundraising - WE ONLY NEED $350- we are also starting to gather materials ad supplies to bring to Haiti.
Blue tarps! The rainy season is upon Haiti and people need tarps! We will carry as many as possible to give away.
If you have any you want to donate (16 x 22 or larger, clean and folded) and you are in the Bay Area, you can drop them off at Institute of Mosaic Art in Oakland by May 22nd Saturday.
If you are in the New Orleans Area and want to donate tarps please e-mail me at laurel true at mac dot com.
We are also bringing school supplies, small flashlites and batteries, and health ad hygiene supplies.
The kids at ACFFC as well as young adults and adults from affiliated arts- based groups in Jacmel are all on board for the creation of this project and we look forward to working with them.
We are flying to Port au Prince on the 31st of May and will travel directly to Jacmel that day.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Laurel True
Update #2: Video for Mosaic Mural in Haiti Project Live!
Hello!
Again, thank you all so much for your support for this project.
I am so grateful for all of your pledges.
We have a wonderful update from the president of Art Creation Foundation for Children in Jacmel. She has made a wonderful connection with a tile factory in Port au Prince and the owners are very supportive of our project and will be donating LOTS of broken tile and thin set for the project.
This is absolutely wonderful news! Thank you to Nancy Josephson for making these initial connections. So great.
Another great update is that we now have a great VIDEO up on our Kickstarter page!
Thanks to my old friend Barb Prichard for putting this together- she rocks.
It's amazing that we got over 50% of our funding without even having a video. But definitely check the video out and pass it on. We are close!
Anyone in the Bay Area (Where Erin will be coming from) and from New Orleans (where I will be coming from) who would like to donate blue tarps, we are going to be carrying a bunch of them over as well. You can send me a message through Kickstarter.
THANK YOU ALL!
Laurel True
Update #1: Thank You Haiti Project Backers!
To Everyone who has pledged their generous support of this project.
We are over half way to our funding goal and that is just amazing.
Exciting news!
We have secured a location for the mural and it has been approved with enthusiasm by the mayor of Jacmel. We are all so excited.
The kids and young adults at ACFFC in Jacmel are collecting rubble for use in the mural now and we are thinking about pre-design concepts.
Other developments:
The wonderful organization Zanmi Lakey will be involved in the documentation of the mural making process. This is very cool.
Thank you all so much for helping with this project. Please pass the word on so that we may meet and exceed our funding goal and get some additional supplies to ACFFC!
Yay!
Laurel True
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Thank you card signed by children and artists at ACFFC in Haiti.
Pledge $250 or more
All of the above plus: Small 6" x 6" drawing or painting by one of the young artists at ACFFC.
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All of the above plus: An 8 x 10 photo book of the process of mural creation, with text.
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All of the above plus: Small sequined Vodou flag from Haiti.
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_An adored teacher, True divides her time between private and public commissions by teaching in various parts of the world. Her energy is contagious, and her quest for experimentation and knowledge confirm her identity as a perpetual student.”___
— JoAnn Loctov, Author, Mosaic Art and Style: Designs for Living Environments
Laurel True is an artist and educator specializing in mixed media, mosaic and public art. She received her BA in African Art and Cultures and has studied at Studio Arte del Mosaico in Ravenna, Italy, Universite Chiek Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, Parsons School of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago. True is the co- founder of the Institute of Mosaic Art in Oakland, CA and has fostered education in the mosaic arts through teaching and lecturing around the world.
True has been facilitating public and community mosaic projects for almost 20 years and has helped to provide job training and arts education to under served communities in urban environments and developing areas. She has created hundreds of projects over the years, working with volunteers, assistants, students, trades people and artists of all ages on projects that reflect a sense of community pride and cultural significance in the locations where they are sited.
True’s public and commissioned work, created through True Mosaics Studio, can be found in private and civic collections as well as in hospitals, in parks, on commercial buildings and in schools across the United States.
She has also been known to create work that spontaneously emerges graffiti- like on concrete walls, in unexpected settings and with unexpected materials- many times through spontaneous community participation.
Her community projects have mainly been focused in West and East Africa, Oakland, CA, New Orleans and most recently, Haiti. She has been facilitating community mosaic mural projects in Ghana since 2001 where she not only works to encourage artistic expression through community mosaic making, but also helps to foster entrepreneurship, passing on skills that are economically viable.
Laurel has a particular investment in cross- cultural collaborative projects which involve feedback from participants from different parts of the world. In 2006 she began the Woven Stories Project, which focuses on creating permanent, site specific mosaic projects that highlight design collaboration between groups of youth in Africa and groups of youth in the US, specifically in under served areas of Oakland, CA and New Orleans, LA.
Projects are created using design feedback and/ or actual materials contributed from both groups, possibly having similar themes or visual content. Permanent artworks in the form of public art mosaics or community mosaic projects are created in both geographic locations - Africa and in the US. These partner projects highlight cross- cultural collaborations and foster a sense of community between youth of different cultures and from different continents.
Laurel's next project will be in Jacmel, Haiti.
www.TrueMosaics.com
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/True-Mosaics-Studio/276758323289
Gorgeous, Laurel. And when you go back w/ pics of your new private commission in New Orleans that draws on Haitian themes, I'll bet the crew will be further honored and delighted.
Cheers!
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Laurel, this is so cool that you've given us all a "Results Report." That's brilliant and much, much appreciated. All that and wonderful eye candy, too? I'm a happy donator!