Voice of America – Kenyan soapstone carver Elkana Ong’esa has earned an international reputation for his carvings. His sculptures adorn the entrances of the United Nations building in New York and UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris. Now a new work will be unveiled soon at the United States’ embassy in Nairobi, inspired by Kenya’s recent post-election […]
The U.S. State Department has commissioned associate art professor Elliot Anderson to create a large-scale photographic work for a new embassy in Zambia, Africa. The piece will be the central artwork for the embassy and will consist of a large diptych on lightboxes, with images of Niagara and Victoria Falls. “It is similar to my […]
Dorothea Rockburne, a thin, elfin woman in oversized blue sneakers, was 40 feet up, inspecting the tippy top of a huge canvas that hangs on the southern wall of the Queens Museum of Art. With one hand she grasped the orange railing of a scissor lift, creaking and swaying like a battered ferry on a […]
John Domont’s visit to Thailand on behalf of Art in Embassies was marked by his outreach into Thai society. He lectured, taught and demonstrated throughout the country for ten days from November 17, 2008 to November 26, 2008 at seven universities as well as an Islamic high school. He also held workshops for disabled adults, […]
Art in Embassies cultural exchange participant, Nasreen Haroon, participates in a creative mural exercise while on a programming and outreach trip for Art in Embassies.
While in Morocco at the behest of the ART in Embassies Program, American artist Mildred Howard shared her artistic expertise in a slide lecture entitled “Art and the Found Object” with groups of students in Casablanca at the School of Fine Arts as well as Tetouan. Howard also shared her knowledge of contemporary African American […]
Art as Diplomacy in the 21st Century. Art in Embassies’ 40th anniversary celebration features opening remarks by AIE Director Anne Johnson, Director of the State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations General Charles Williams, and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Art as Diplomacy in the 21st Century. Art in Embassies’ 40th anniversary celebration features opening remarks by AIE Director Anne Johnson, Director of the State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations General Charles Williams, and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Michelle Torrez, a participant in the cultural exchange program with Art in Embassies, went to Sofia, Bulgaria in February of 2003. This is an interview on the morning BTV show “This Morning” of her and the program.
AIE Exchange Artist, Johnny Johnson traveled to Benin in October of 2002. This is a television newscast describing his visit and the program in Benin. It is a French newscast.
