The Lady Daw Aung San Suu Kyi received our book Freedom and Art congratulations to a 74 artis who sent artworks to this great project 2008 - 2012
How amazing that The Lady Daw Aung San Suu Kyi received our book after so many years......
Several of my artist friends, and their artist friends from around the world, created this book, Freedom and Art and made an art show that started in Beacon and toured the world, all in support of the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel
Several of my artist friends, and their artist friends from around the world, created this book, Freedom and Art and made an art show that started in Beacon and toured the world, all in support of the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel
Peace Prize
winner and elected but then jailed leader of Myanmar (formerly Burma).
Now that great leader and thinker is free, and finally received her copy
of this book - artists from around the world expressing through art and
words what freedom means to them. Congrats everybody, especially Carla Goldberg and Carol Flaitz!
Carol Flaitz
Dear Mirca Art Group members,
Thanks to Carla Goldberg I had the opportunity to have a show at Skylight Gallery in New York City. There I had a chance to meet a wonderful gentleman who worked for the United Nations for years before retiring. He personally knows Aung San Suu Kyi, so I told him about our book, "Freedom and Art" and our talk in Beacon to bring awareness to the plight of the people of Burma. He is still in touch with people traveling to Rangoon for diplomatic work and he has told me that he will make sure that our book travels to Aung San Suu Kyi and is given to her, not through the post but it will be placed in her hand. I was so touched, there are just no words. The great lady will hold in her hand our book. It was worth everything.
Love,
Carol Flaitz
Book available:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/367936
Artworks:
PRESS RELEASE 2008
The Voice of Art in a Battle for Freedom
International artists create book in support of key political figure
On
October 2nd, 2008, the Mirca Art Group, an international coalition of
professional artists, will release their landmark collaborative effort, a
book entitled Freedom & Art, to the public. The book features 74
works of art, each accompanied by a short statement about the synergy of
freedom and art in our world, and is being sold to raise funds in
support of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a key political figure who has been
under house arrest in Myanmar (formerly Burma) for the past 18 years
over her bid for political freedom.
The
book will be released to the public initially through an event called
“Set a Book Free” on Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday, October 2nd when all
artists featured within the pages of the book will place a copy donated
by Internet-based publishing site Blurb.com in a public location to
raise interest.
The
project was born out of artmesh, a social media website that allows
artists to network via forums and groups, similar to the way users
interact on social mega-site Facebook.com. Swedish founder Stefan
Tunedal created the Mirca Art Group as a private forum within artmesh
that would focus on fostering art-orientated discussions in an open,
tolerant atmosphere. The Mirca Art group eventually grew to include
nearly 250 artists from six continents and over thirty countries. Aung
San Suu Kyi and her battle for freedom – a passion of Tunedal’s – became a rallying cause for the group and is the inspiration for the book.
According
to Carla Goldberg, US-based coordinator and senior editor for Freedom
& Art, the book was meant to harness the energy and passion of the
artists for Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi into an actionable strategy to aid in
her release. On the effort to work with artists from around the world,
Carla says, “The project has brought our group together in a whole new
way. There has been a lot of
wonderful back-and-forth on message boards and everyone has been willing
to offer their individual talents where needed.” On
the effort to assemble the work of the artists together, she says, "It
has been like assembling a beautiful puzzle...each piece is unique and,
in the end, everything has fit together to create a complete work of
art."
After
its initial release to the public in October the book will be available
for sale through the official website of Amnesty International and
Amazon.com. All proceeds from the sale of the book Freedom & Art
will be donated to Amnesty International to support efforts being made
on behalf of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi's . A traveling exhibit featuring a
selection of the art published in the book is also planned. It will open
February 14, 2009, at the Mount Beacon Fine Arts Gallery in Beacon, NY.
“I
wanted to see what I can do from this safe studio in Stockholm where it
would be impossible to even think of imprisoning an elected
(official)," says Tunedal when asked about his passion for the plight
Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi. “A woman like her should not be treated like this. She has the right to be free," adds Hungarian artist Krisztina Asztalos, writing from the other side of Europe. "Aung
San Suu Kyi's efforts...are an inspiration for the many people
throughout the world who are striving to attain democracy, human rights
and ethnic conciliation."
By
working together in the spirit of global collaboration, these artists
have become a united voice of hope and pierced places where freedom has
failed with the liberating power of artistic expression.
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