Tag: Community
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Around North America, Community Members Are Stitching 10,000 Fabric Birds
Every year, there are two major migration events. Birds, insects, fish, and other mammals head north in the spring to nest and breed and return south in the winter to feed and raise their young. Using BirdCast, a tool that’s active seasonally and allows anyone to see bird migration “heat maps” around the U.S., ornithologists read more
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London’s Wellcome Collection to Transfer 2,000 Manuscripts to Jain Community, But They Will Stay in UK
The Wellcome Collection in London announced Friday its plans to return 2,000 manuscripts to the Jain community. In an unusual move, however, they will not be returned to Pakistan, where many of the manuscripts were purchased a century ago, or to India, where the majority of Jains live today. Instead, they will head to the read more
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Ouinex reaches $9M in community funding, launches token platform
Ouinex, a Paris-based crypto asset exchange, has raised $3.5 million in a new equity round, bringing its total funding to $9 million, all of it from retail and professional traders using its own platform and with no venture capital participation. Alongside the funding round, Ouinex introduced Ouinex Launchpad, a token sale platform designed to give read more
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Linocuts by Eduardo Robledo Celebrate Mexican Heritage and Community
In the richly detailed linocuts of Eduardo Robledo, festive ceremonies, spiritual motifs, and dream-like interactions unfurl. The Mexico City-based artist was born and raised in the southern borough of Xochimilco, which is famous for its canals—vestiges of a huge Aztec water transport system still used today for bringing goods into the city. This area and read more
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After Five Years of Community Building, Social Practice CUNY Initiative to End in 2027
“I don’t think that anybody ever starts with a clear plan to sunset, but nor did I think that this would necessarily institutionalize in a way that would make it exist forever,” artist and Chloë Bass told ARTnews in a recent interview about Social Practice CUNY, the initiative she has co-directed for the past five read more
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Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash
DePaul University in Chicago will close its campus art museum on June 30 after projecting a major budget deficit in 2026. The private university’s president, Robert L. Manuel, first announced the looming shutdown of the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) in a letter to students and staff last week, citing ongoing reviews of the school’s “long-term read more
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A Quilted Ice Hut on a Minnesota Lake Celebrates Community, Agriculture, and Craft
For residents of the Upper Midwest and Canada—the land of lakes—ice shanties are ubiquitous winter fixtures. From the huge temporary villages that emerge on Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago for sturgeon-spearing season to ramshackle, hand-built huts dotting Ontario’s Lake Simcoe, these vernacular structures are designed around openings or hatches in the floors so that hardy northerners can read more
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A Short Documentary Celebrates the Community that Rallied Around 'Rick on the Roof'
Two decades ago, a man named Rick Canty lost his mother and was shortly thereafter evicted from their home in Barry, Wales, due to bankruptcy charges he vehemently claimed were fraudulent. In protest against being forced to move, he climbed on top of the house and settled into a new routine on the rooftop, not read more
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