“Instructions For Peace”

Created and curated by Marlina Gonzalez

For: Togonon Gallery (San Francisco) 

"Instructions For Peace" is a public art and gallery exhibition of new media installations and sculptural time capsules containing people’s instructions for peace in the 21^st century. The exhibition will take place at Togonon Gallery in San Francisco from September 7-30, 2010 with an opening reception on Saturday, September 11, 2010. It is one of the parallel events to the 3rd 01SJ Bienniale in response to the theme “Build Your Own World.” Selected time capsules will also be exhibited on September 17 at the 01SJ Bienniale’s “Absolute Zero Evening” in San Jose, CA. 

Participating artists include: California-based artists Steve Baibak, Allen Guilmette, Xuchi Naungayan-Eggleton with Josh Eggleton; Arizona-based Pima Indian mixed media artist Richard Bluecloud Castaneda; New York-based public artist Anita Glesta and new media artist Fang Yu-Lin; and Texas-based visual artist Roberto Rivera. Instructions for Peace is conceived and curated by Minneapolis-based new media arts curator Marlina Gonzalez. 

The installations will integrate raw material and digital technology as literal vehicles for people’s aspirations for peace. Artists will use raw materials and construction scraps collected from the World Trade Center construction site as well as lumber donated by one of the WTC lumber contractors, U.S. Lumber. They will draw inspiration, shape a response or interpret people’s entries in the Instructions For Peace blog which will go live in the Spring 2010 (www.instructionsforpeace.org) 

Selected sculptural installation/s will be interactive kiosks that visitors are invited to enter and participate by blogging, v-logging, uploading photos or sketches that shape their brief Instructions For Peace to the world. Each instruction can be addressed to future world leaders, parents and grandparents, youth, communities, religious institutions, etc. Instructions can be pure text or may include video uploads, photos, sketches, poetry or other literary forms, sketches.  

The Instructions For Peace installations, time capsules, and blog will be physical and virtual places where people of all ages, languages, cultures, can represent their desires, statements, reflections, hopes about global peace, post 9/11.

  

The Desperta Family is pleased to announce that we are now selling our modern artistic clothing @ VS Social Standard & Fifth Element!
Thanks to these fine local boutiques for their love & support!!!!

  

Thanks to everyone who has supported Desperta in it's infancy! During the Spring and Summer of 2009 we have been blessed with two great fashion shows thanks to the support of IamMoody and Runway Icon.

We were first featured in May 2009 for the premier opening of 7 Sushi Spring Rooftop Opening party which was hosted by Richard Moody of IamMoody management team and showcased local fashions by Desperta and Belle Reeve Boutique.

Our early Fall 2009 show "Allure" hosted by Runway Icon showcased Desperta, VS Social Standard and other local designers and boutiques. Both fashion shows were a blast and we look forward to our next show in 2010!

Thanks to all the models how worked the runway and all the other "worker bees" who do not get recognized for their hard work and efforts in creating successful shows and help maintain a vibrant local fashion scene here in the Twin Cities!

Last but not least I would like to thank God for the blessings and the Eternal Love!

  

Desperta & MN Immigrant Freedom Network has raised over $ 2,000 in this a bad economy!

Thanks to all the artists, volunteers and especially our interns Rachel Huss & Adam Love who's energy, dedication and initiative led the organization and execution of Art 4 Justice: Arte sin Fronteras an exhibiton with performances by Tatiana Ormaza, Grupo Quetzal and AB Capoeira Senavox, a film screening of Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad, and spoken word poetry by Kyle "Guante" Myhre, Juliana Hu Pegues, Teresa Ortiz.

  

Art 4 Justice: Arte sin Fronteras

A visual and performance arts fundraiser for immigrant rights; to
benefit the MN Immigrant Freedom Network.

Saturday, May 9th,2009 5:00pm-10:00pm

Exhibition, Art Sale, Performances, Film Screening of
"Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad"

$7 Donation @ door $5 Donation for film only

El Colegio Charter School, 4137 Bloomington Ave S., Mpls


*We are still accepting art donations to sell @ our fundraising
event, We will pick up your works and all proceeds go to benefit
youth programs @ MN Immigrant Freedom Network. For more info:
immigrantfreedomnetwork.wordpress.com| 651-287-0660 or call Roberto @
612-532-5813.

Organized by MIFN & Desperta

  

Desperta Arte & Clothing is now supporting The Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network (MIFN).

MIFN The Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network (MIFN) is a statewide immigrant leadership group that works to improve the lives of immigrants, their children, and the broader community. The MIFN believes education is a human right and organizes with Latino and
immigrant youth to make education affordable for all, regardless of citizenship status. They also implement Immigrant Leadership Schools in greater Minnesota in order to develop better relationships between newcomers and native born residents. They work to humanize the face of immigration in the media by helping the media to abolish the usage of the term "illegal immigrant." As a network, they seek to walk the path of justice with immigrant peoples, rejecting the notion that any group can own a community. They work hand in hand with anyone from any group who is willing to come together to build a healthier more sustainable Minnesota.

  

Waz-up D.E.S.P.E.R.T.A. community!!!! I am pleased to announce that our first prints of Womens and Mens apparel is rolling out. We are currently working on sponsoring non-profit art, environmental and drug rehabilitation centers in MN and TX. If you would like to submit a nomination for sponsorship, please leave your contact info and message or email info@despertaclothing.com.

Paz y Amor!!!

  

The Desperta Family is pleased to announce our first candidate for non-profit sponsorship. Intermedia Arts from Minneapolis, MN is the first partnering non-profit organization that we will help support. Intermedia Arts is where Desperta founder and artist Roberto Rivera got his start. Rivera says, "If it where not for Intermedia Arts I would still be throwing my paintings away and I would not be where I am currently am now today. Intermedia awarded me with my first artistic internship (Espejos Program 2008) and assisted me in publicly showcasing my art in a gallery setting for the first time. I owe my artistic careerer start to Intermedia Arts!"

Please stay tuned for upcoming fund raisers and events where 100% of all raised proceeds go back to the artist and organizations. Please visit Intermedia Arts and show your support today!

  

Well a new year has started and so has the launching of Desperta Clothing and Fine Art!!! I hope that this little side project will help others become more socially & environmentally conscious by realizing that, "Yes, one individual can make a difference". I want to challenge my viewers how they think and how they view the world, so this blog is yours.  Feel free to post future subjects or discussion topics, and oh yes,  I am planning some tricks up my sleeves like hosting events and promoting "good cause" events, helping local non-profit art organizations grow and assist other local artist emerge into the fabulous local art scene that the Twin cities has to offer, contests and merchandise lottos to help sponsor local non-profits . May God bless everyone who visits this site and I am wishing all my family and friends a very prosperous new year!

  

Well a new year has started and so has the launching of Desperta Clothing and Fine Art!!!
I hope that this little side project will help others become more
socially & environmentally conscious by realizing that, "Yes, one
individual can make a difference". I want to challenge my viewers how
they think and how they view the world, so this blog is yours.  Feel
free to post future subjects or discussion topics, and oh yes,  I am
planning some tricks up my sleeves like hosting events and promoting
"good cause" events, helping local non-profit art organizations grow
and assist other local artist emerge into the fabulous local ...<< MORE >>