ROAD TRIP part of the Sketchbook Art Project Library

Posted on April 10, 2013 by micheleguieu

My sketchbook “Road Trip”, part of the Sketchbook Art Project, has been digitized and can be viewed online. Art House Co-op is a great community hub, online and offline, offering multiple opportunities to participate in cool projects. The sketchbook are traveling around the US.

From the Art House Co-op website

The Sketchbook Project is a global, crowd-sourced art project and interactive, traveling exhibition of handmade books. Our community is made up of over 75,000 people, and our permanent collection at Brooklyn Art Library holds over 26,000 sketchbooks from 135 countries around the globe.

We invite participants from all walks of life to fill the pages of a blank sketchbook and send it back for inclusion in our ever-growing library of inspiration.

Anyone, from anywhere in the world, can participate in the project.

We’re thrilled to provide a virtual home for the incredible work contributed by members of the Art House community. This archive contains thousands of digitized sketchbooks from all over the world — and it’s still growing. Feel free to add books to your reading list, share favorites with your friends and leave comments for the artists. And if you’d like to join in the fun, sign up for the Sketchbook Project and we’ll share your work here, too!

My video G R A N T E D is added to Vimeo Staff Picks

Posted on March 22, 2013 by micheleguieu

I am very excited that G R A N T E D is selected by Vimeo Staff. Water is a subject which I am very interested in. I wanted to convey an important idea with a very short video. World water day is tomorrow but water is important – crucial even – everyday! No water was wasted to make the video – I only did one take (that is usually what I do in my videos) , following my family and friends in their daily activities.
Here you can see a set of still images from the video.

I Remember – a series of short videos for the Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium 2013

Posted on March 22, 2013 by micheleguieu

Mauritania

Water Cycle

Merveilles

Mediterranean

Miniu Miniu

Sahel

Waterfall

Paris – Ocean

WATERWHEEL World Water Day Symposium March 22 & 23

Posted on March 14, 2013 by micheleguieu

I am very excited to participate to this unique event, which will happen simultaneously around the world on March 22 and 23. Everyone participating and/or attending will be able to discuss through a well organized online meeting system, where participant will show material (video, photos, diagrams…) and present works about Water Memories and Tomorrow’s landscapes.

I will show “I Remember”, a series of short videos (less than one minute each) of memories I have about water. The footage and photos were taken at different locations through the years: Mauritania, Senegal, Yellowstone National Park, Oregon, Vallée des Merveilles, San Diego. Water is an important part of my life – I always lived closed to an ocean, a sea or a river. My father being a geologist and my mother a biologist, water was the subject of many discussions in our family and I learned at a very early age to love and respect it.

March 22 & 23
Info & Program
Press Release
24-hour non-stop with more than 100 scientists, artists & activists from 5 continents presenting, and interacting with people online, and in nodes in Australia, Hong Kong, Tunisia, USA and Argentina.

TO VIEW the Symposium LIVE ONLINE March 22 and 23: open your browser – with the latest flash plug-in installed – and go to http://water-wheel.net/tap and click the top-most Symposium link.

Great to be part of “The Wrap It Up Youth Video Project” led by Corinne Takara

Posted on March 12, 2013 by micheleguieu

I am one of the artists who participated in the Japantown Mural Project in San Jose. The Wrap it Up Youth Video project led by artist Corinne Takara interviewed the artists about their piece in the Japantown Mural Project. The middle school students, with teacher D.J. Ashford at Burnett Middle School, did an amazing job. The Japantown mural Project was created by Tamiko Rast (Rasteroids Design) and the City of San Jose Public art program.

Here are all the interviews of the artists who participated in the Japantown Mural Project in San Jose.

Below is my interview.

WEAD Board 2013 – Women Environmental Art Directory

Posted on March 6, 2013 by micheleguieu

I am thrilled to be part of this amazing group of women! I participated in my first board meeting in Oakland and it was amazing to feel the great energy.

Katherine Keefer, Amy Stewart , Minoosh Zomorodinia, Patricia Bentson, Carol Newborg, Danielle Siembieda, Katherine Wallace, Vickie Jo Sowell, Christina Bertea, Michele Guieu, Lorna Stevens, Mary B. White, Suzanne Girot, Sharon Siskin, Judith Blankman, Andree Thompson, Lauren Elder, Susan Steinman.

As of today, the international directory comprises 274 artists around the world. It accepts new submissions through its website.
contact: weadartists@gmail.com

WEAD: Focusing on women’s unique perspectives, we collaborate internationally to further the field and understanding of ecological and social justice art.
From WEAD website: “Our goal is to be inclusive of the broadest spectrum of women’s contemporary eco and social justice art. WEAD’s website provides a place for women arts professionals to define themselves and their work. Each authors an individualized entry, describing interests, intents, materials, philosophy, and aesthetics.”

Cover and illustrations for “Kohl & Chalk” by Shadab Zeest Hashmi

Posted on March 5, 2013 by micheleguieu

Book cover

Shadab Zeest Hashmi reading "Kohl and Chalk" at Lahore University of Management Science in Lahore, Pakistan.

I was honored that Shadab Zeest Hashmi asked me to create the illustrations for the cover and the inside of her second book of poems and I am very pleased to see that the book is now printed. I met Shadab when I lived in San Diego. We gave a lecture together at the San Diego Museum of Art, with artist Marisol Rendón: “From Art History to Art Making: Emigrant/Immigrant: Culture and Identity in Art” (November 14, 2009).

Shadab’s poetry makes us travel. Faces, colors, scents, places, sounds and landscapes are all weaved together. In this book you’ll find words from Delhi, Bangkok, Peshawar, Paris. Although painful at times – her poems bear the shadow of the war -, her journey will lift your heart.

About Shadab (from her website)
Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s poems have appeared in Poetry International, Vallum, Nimrod, The Bitter Oleander, Journal of Postcolonial Writings, The Cortland Review, South Asian Review, RHINO, Hubbub, New Millennium Writings, The Citron Review, 3 Quarks Daily, San Diego Free Press, and are forthcoming in The Adirondack Review, Sugar Mule and other places. Her essays on eastern poetic forms such as the Ghazal and Qasida have been published in the Journal of Contemporary World Literature, and her essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies and Knot magazine. She represents Pakistan on Universe: A United Nations of Poetry .

Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s first book Baker of Tarifa won the 2011 San Diego Book Award for poetry. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize multiple times and has taught as a visiting professor at San Diego State University. Hashmi has served as the editor of San Diego’s Magee Park Poets Anthology since 2000 and is the English Section editor of MahMag World Literature.

About Kohl & Chalk
In her first collection Baker of Tarifa, a contemplation of the symbiotic Euro-Arab culture of Andalusia and its reverberations across the centuries, Shadab Zeest Hashmi revealed a bold and original voice with an ability to meld cultures and poetic forms with great skill. In Kohl and Chalk, she takes this further with her accomplished ghazals – a poetic form that is central to Urdu literature and song. This is a truly exciting collection, and Hashmi is clearly a poet to watch. — Muneeza Shamsie (Editor Leaving Home and A Dragon Fly in the Sun)

Shadab Zeest Hashmi
Kohl & Chalk on Amazon

G R A N T E D (video)

Posted on January 23, 2013 by micheleguieu

The idea for this one minute video comes from something my mom told me when I was a child, that I never forgot and which is still true today. Because water matters so much!

The Women Environmental Art Directory (WEAD)

Posted on January 3, 2013 by micheleguieu

I am very excited to be part of the Women Environmental Art Directory. Wead sponsored the exhibition “Convergence/Divergence” at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, CA.

About WEAD
Mission Statement
- Focusing on women’s unique perspectives we collaborate internationally to further the field and understanding of ecological and social justice art.

Purpose
- To provide information regarding the ecoart and social justice art fields to artists, curators, writers, art and public art administrators, educators in art and ecology, cross-disciplinary professionals and others.
- To facilitate international networking among artists working with ecological and social justice issues.
- To further the fields of, and the understanding of environmental and social justice art.

B U G S

Posted on January 3, 2013 by micheleguieu

This short documentary is about my son’s passion for his pet bugs: a Vinegaroon, a tailless whip scorpion, a couple of Madagascar cockroaches and a Jerusalem cricket.
Length: 3:45

This video is part of a series of short videos I am making about childhood:

WATER SYSTEM (2012)
About 2 children explaining the water system they constructed for their small shack in the country.
UNDER MY BED (2012)
Kids talking about the monsters hidden under their beds at night.
BOXES (2012)
About 2 kids geocaching in the Bay area.
THE FORT (2011)
About kids constructing a fort for fairies with twigs and pine cones, and reconstructing it after it is destroyed.
THE DRAWING (2010)
About a boy drawing a monster and talking about how he scared his brother at night.
THE MAP (2010)
About a boy describing a piece of circuit board like it is the map of where he lives.

My work as an artist is in constant flux. I am inspired to create and collaborate in socially and environmentally relevant ways. From large-scale installations to teaching art to kids, my art is informed by my roles as a mother, a traveler—and as both an immigrant and emigrant.

I am also profoundly influenced by my parent’s scientific background (my mother was a biologist and my father was a geologist). Fueled by these interests and influences, I create using a variety of mediums: as videographer, installation artist, painter, and photographer.

From my early years in France (Marseille and Paris) and Senegal, Africa, to the expansive vistas of the desert southwest and my adopted state of California—the built and natural worlds figure prominently in my multi-media installations. My passion for the environment keeps me deeply connected to nature and a sense of place.

My art has evolved from that which is viewed passively, to interactive work that stands at the intersection of community engagement and social change. Through my art, I invite audience participation and co-artist collaboration to explore commercialism and mainstream media as it contrasts with the natural world and my imagined world.

For me, art is less about beauty and more about making meaning that’s socially relevant. My work with the Billboard Art Project, which asks people to think differently when they encounter one of my images on an LED billboard, or my video Granted (a Vimeo staff pick), which is about global issues of sustainability and clean water, both reflect my twin aims of social engagement and participatory art.

Through my daily notes—photos and video footage that I take each day, I learn more about, and reflect back, the world that I see around me and I invite you in to do the same.

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