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Photography and drawing that examine environmental, social and economic consequences of current mechanized mining practices in El Chocó

Gold Mining in El Chocó, Colombia

Photography and drawing that examine environmental, social and economic consequences of current mechanized mining practices in El Chocó
Photography and drawing that examine environmental, social and economic consequences of current mechanized mining practices in El Chocó
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Steve Cagan and Mary Kelsey
Steve Cagan and Mary Kelsey
132 backers pledged $16,137 to help bring this project to life.
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A talk at the Chagrin Falls Library / Una Charla en la Biblioteca de Chagrin Falls

For people in our area: Mary and Steve will be giving an illustrated talk about the environmental and social effects of mechanized gold mining in El Chocó, Colombia next Thursday,... Read more

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A quick look at Mary’s participation in the exhibition at Uri-Eichen / Un vistazo a la participación de Mary en la exposición en la Uri-Eichen

Friends / Amig@s:

We have posted some images of Mary’s participation in the exhibition at the Uri-Eichen Gallery in Chicago during December in our blog—https://www.tumblr.com/blog/elchocomining.  / Hemos puesto unas imágenes... Read more

Reminder of Chagrin Falls show / Recordatorio de exhibición en Chagrin Falls

Dear Friends,

We wanted to remind you that we will be exhibiting prints of some of the drawings and photographs from our project on gold mining in El Chocó Colombia... Read more

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Exhibition at Chagrin Falls library, January and February, 2016

Dear Friends,

We’re pleased to be able to tell you that we will be exhibiting prints of some of the drawings and photographs from our project on gold mining in... Read more

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A reminder about the activity in Chicago

Hi everyone--Just a reminder of the activity at the Uri-Eichen Gallery in Chicago, next week. Here's a link to their website, with more details: http://uri-eichen.com/

We hope to see some... Read more

Chicago-area exhibition

Dear Friends,

We’re happy to tell you that, along with two other artists, we are participating in the 4th Annual Human Rights Day Show at the Uri-Eichen Gallery in Chicago,... Read more

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Exhibition at / Exposición en Art Center Sarasota

Dear friends, we are happy to tell you that we are having another exhibition of prints of some of the drawings and photographs from our project on gold mining in... Read more

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A talk at River's Edge in Cleveland


For people in the Cleveland area, or nearby, we will be giving a talk next Thursday, July 16 at 7 PM. in connection with our exhibit at River's Edge. More... Read more

Images of our Exhibition at the Regina A Quick Center / Imágenes de nuestra Exposición en el Regina A Quick Center

There are now some images of our exhibition at the Regina A Quick Center at St. Bonaventure University in New York State that can be seen at our blog: http://elchocomining.tumblr.com/... Read more

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Exhibition in Cleveland / Exposición en Cleveland

People in the Cleveland area might enjoy a modest but special exhibition of some of our images at River’s Edge, the center run by the sisters of the Congregation of... Read more

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Exhibition of images from this project / Exposición de imágenes de este proyecto

 Dear friends / Querid@s amig@s:

It’s a pleasure for us to tell you that we are going to have a large and complex exhibition of work from our project on... Read more

More questions about mechanized mining / Más preguntas sobre la minería mecanizada

Friends,

The second part of our little essay on enduring questions about mechanized gold mining is now available on our blog: www.elchocomining.tumblr.com. We hope you’ll find it interesting, and that... Read more

UNAS REFLEXIONES SOBRE LA MINERÍA MECANIZADA / SOME REFLECTIONS ABOUT MECHANIZED MINING

Dear friends / Estimad@s amig@s,

The third of our series of three essays about issues our work has raised for us has now been posted (with some images, natch) on... Read more

Exhibition and presentation at Cleveland State University Urban Studies College / Exposición y presentación en la Facultad de Estudios Urbanos de Cleveland State University

We’re happy to be able to tell you that we are having an exhibition of our drawings and photographs of gold mining in El Chocó at the gallery of the... Read more

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If you’re going to be near Marietta, Georgia the weekend of September 27-28…/ Si vas a estar cerca a Marietta, Georgia el fin de semana del 27-28 de septiembre…

We’re going to have an exhibit of our work and an illustrated talk at the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Congregation. The exhibit will be up from 12 Noon on Saturday, September... Read more

Social change can be very complicated / El cambio social puede ser muy complicado

Dear friends / Estimad@s amig@s,

The second installment of the three we have promised about some of the thoughts and issues that our work in El Chocó has raised for... Read more

Some upcoming activities

Dear friends,

We’re very happy to tell you about three upcoming activities. Our work on gold mining in El Chocó is going to be exhibited, and we will be making... Read more

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New blog entry: Themes that keep coming up in our discussions about mining / Temas que surgen siempre en nuestras charlas sobre la minería

Dear friends / Estimad@s amig@s

We're happy to be able to let you know that we have put a new post in our blog. We hope you'll find it interesting.... Read more

Who are we? / ¿Quiénes somos?

Another post, on a somewhat lighter topic...we hope you enjoy this

Otra entrada, sobre un tema un poco menos serio...esperamos que les guste


(http://elchocomining.tumblr.com/)

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Returning to Paimadó and the Río Quito / Volver a Paimadó y el río Quito

Dear friends,

We’re happy to share the news that our project about gold mining in El Chocó continues. We’re look at possible exhibitions in Colombia as well as in the... Read more

Correct dates / Fechas correctas

Of course, Friday is the 16th, and the broadcast is on Sunday the 18 of May.

Sorry for the error...

Desde luego, el viernes es el 16, y la transmisión... Read more

We're interviewed by a Bogotá radio station / Una emisora de radio en Bogotá nos saca una entrevista

Dear friends,

We find ourselves back in Colombia to continue work on our project. After two interesting and productive days in Bogotá, we head out for Quibdó on Friday, May... Read more

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Our first exhibit--more to come / Nuestra primera exposición--va a haber más

This Friday, April 25, we will be for the first time exhibiting prints of our drawings and photographs from the 2013 visit to El Chocó. This will be at an... Read more

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The project you have supported in the media / El proyecto que Uds. han respaldado en los medios

Hi everyone:

1) Here's an article from the Winter, 2014 issue of ReVista, the journal of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, at Harvard University. < http://elchocomining.net/revistaarticle.pdf >It... Read more

One more notice about thank-yous / Un aviso más sobre agradecimientos

Dear Friends,

We have sent you this message a couple of times, but since both times were near holidays we want to send it again, in case it got lost... Read more

Thank-you items for our supporters, take 2...

Dear Friends,

We sent this message out to you just before Thanksgiving, which is retrospect doesn’t seem like the best possible day to do that. So here it is again:... Read more

Thank-you items for our supporters

Dear Friends,

Once again, we want to thank you for your support, which has made possible the first phase of our project on gold mining in El Chocó. As promised,... Read more

Thinking about the meaning of our work /Pensando sobre el significado de nuestro trabajo

Dear friends, 

 We’re both back in Cleveland, winding up the work on the first stage of our project, and starting on the next stage--finishing and editing images, getting ready to... Read more

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Two "paros" by miners / Dos paros mineros

Dear friends,

We have put up a blog post in which we compare two miners’ “paros,” or work stoppages, one last year and one this year, in Quibdó. Remember, you... Read more

We visit the Río Bebaramá / Visitamos el Río Bebaramá

Dear friends,

We have put up a blog post about an interesting visit we made to communities and a mine along the Río Bebaramá. Remember, you can see the blog... Read more

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The Forbidden Drawing / El Dibujo Prohibido

Dear friends,

Although the first stage of our project is drawing to a close, our work goes on, and we still will have several blog posts for you. For a... Read more

An island of normal life / Una isla de vida normal

Dear Friends,

These days life in Quibdó seems more normal than is some other places in Colombia, Check out our comments on this at: http://elchocomining.tumblr.com/. Remember, the password is “elchoco,”... Read more

In Quibdó / En Quibdó

Dear Friends,

We have a short blog post about spending the next several days in Quibdo, at: http://elchocomining.tumblr.com/. Remember, the password is “elchoco,” without the quotation marks.

Thanks,

Mary and... Read more

Another form of artisanal mining/Minería artesanal de otra forma

Dear Friends,

We spent half a day with people who practice artisanal mining in a different way

You can see our blog post about this by going to: http://elchocomining.tumblr.com/. Remember,... Read more

Language barrier / Barrera idiomática

Dear Friends,

We just received an interesting and helpful comment from a friend in Chile, and wanted to share it with you.

You can see the short blog post about... Read more

We visit another community / Visitamos otra comunidad

Dear Friends,

Our work goes ahead, thanks to you and our friends and colleagues here in El Chocó. We’ve returned from a visit to an Afro-Colombian mining community, where we... Read more

New Post from El Chocó / Nueva entrada desde El Chocó

Dear Friends,

We’ve just returned to Quibdó from a trip to an indigenous community, and immediately we’re leaving for another visit to another area.

There’s a new post up on... Read more

In Quibdó--August 6

Dear Friends,

We’re in Quibdó, organizing our work here. And, as promised, we are maintaining a blog to keep our supporters informed, and as a way of expressing our on-going... Read more

We are interviewed on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio

About five weeks ago we had the pleasure of being interviewed by Alan Chartock of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio--Alan asked us some very good questions and we felt we got a... Read more

New entry in our blog

Our blog for our supporters has a new entry--you can see it by going to http://elchocomining.tumblr.com/ Remember that the password is "elchoco," without the quotation marks.

Also, we have heard... Read more
Successfully raised $16,137 with 132 backers

A spanish version of the website is on line

Whoops—if the idea was to get information to Spanish speakers, we. The good news is that thanks to the effort of Alter-Nexus (thanks so much, Lourdes) have to give the... Read more

Sitio de web en castellano

Buena noticia—gracias al trabajo de Alter-Nexus (muchas gracias, Lourdes), ya tenemos en línea una versión del sitio de web del proyecto sobre minería en El Chocó. Pueden ir a www.elchocomining.net... Read more

Art center exhibit scheduled

Hi all,

We're very pleased to tell you that we have our first confirmed exhibit scheduled, for an art center in Florida. This is really good news, but it makes... Read more
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