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<DIV>Frank Shifreen</DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A [email protected] href="mailto:[email protected]">Frank Shifreen</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 1/19/2003 3:22:41 AM </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Antiwar Exhibition: seeking proposals, organizers, and assistance</DIV>
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<P>Seeking Proposals, Artists and Organizers for Antiwar Exhibition</P>
<P>email:[email protected] with contact information</P>
<P>after Jan 20th call : 212-677-4825</P>
<P>Planning exhibitions in diverse media, gallery shows as well as web, telelvision, performance and hybrid components</P>
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<P>I and a group of antiwar artists are hoping that the art community will support r an antiwar art exhibition that can be organized and mounted quickly as a way of focusing attention to our opposition to the planned war on Iraq. Abe Lulbelski, publisher of the New Yorks Arts Journal and Director of galleries in New York and Berlin has promised an exhibition and the support of his magazine. I am a curator, artist, and doctoral student at Columbia University </P>
<P>The President and his party seems to occupy the high ground in selling the need for war to the American People. Antiwar activists and the few politicians courageous enough to identify themselves as against the war haven't been faring well in putting our arguments across. Those of us who are against the war believe their reasons for war are specious and without any merit. The fear caused by 911 has infected America and we have been squeezed from the right by Islamic terrorists and from within.</P>
<P>Images can be an important way to bypass the Orwellian logic of the warmakers. Art speaks to our senses , which are the primary way we experience the world. Art can entertain alternatives and change minds. There is a history of antiwar activism expressed through art exhibitions that has been important adjunct to the antiwar movement. In the 1960's the Artworkers Coalition and other groups organized in opposition to the Vietnam war. Similar Artists Coalitions were organized in opposition to the War in Central America, Apartheid, and other progressive issues.</P>
<P>Art exhibitions alert the media, the public , as well as the creative class that discontent can be channeled into artistic work, into beauty, understanding and sensitivity. I believe that the opposite of war is peace and also art, as creative constructive projects opposed to destructive and violent ends.</P>
<P>I have been organizing art exhibitions for 25 years. There are a group of artists, art historians, academics that I have been working with who are eager to work with me on this important project.</P>
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<P>I am an artist, curator, teacher and Doctoral candidate at Columbia University in Art and Art Education. Many of the others have similar resumes. We are hoping that you will help us in organizing an exhibition.</P>
<P>We have the experience in organizing these events very quickly. We need</P></DIV>
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<DIV>Frank Shifreen</DIV>
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FW: Antiwar Exhibition: seeking proposals, organizers, and assistance
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