Wed, Sep 01, 2010: RT @brooklinenews 33 things 2 do this fall: Evry fall, u remember one of the reasons u chose 2 live near BOS. The arts… http://dlvr.it/4Ybsm
Wed, Sep 01, 2010: RT @Fortpointarts - creating a book of community history w/section devoted 2 local art. Send in art 4 chance to b in it-Kare.stein@gmail.com
Wed, Sep 01, 2010: RT @museumnerd: It's #askacurator day, folks! (So #backgroundthrowdown may have to wait a bit... Friday?)
Mon, Aug 30, 2010: RT @prcboston Mark your calendars- Just one week until Michal Chelbin: Strangely Familiar opens @ the PRC http://www.bu.edu/prc/schedule.htm
Fri, Aug 27, 2010: Our recs for this week (We've retired, but it doesn't mean we won't be looking at and thinking about art :-) http://bit.ly/dxe0zY
Fri, Aug 27, 2010: Caleb Neelon in New England Journal of Aesthetic Research: Ten short memos to young Boston artists http://bit.ly/cpLHkl
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Tue, Aug 24, 2010: RT @PanoptGallery sad to see @BigREDandShiny go bye bye. Favorite interviews #1 w/ #photographer Harold Feinstein http://tinyurl.com/376zgyj
Tue, Aug 24, 2010: RT @montgallery: RT @gloveboxboston: call for short films and animations find out more at gloveboxfilmfestival.blogspot.com
The artist Mel Chin is raising money to clean the lead-contaminated soil of New Orleans. The city that brutally reminded the world of the racial disparities that still exist in the United States has one of the worst lead (Pb) pollution problems in the country. Chin went to New Orleans after Katrina to help find creative solutions to the city's devastation, but found that he could make an even bigger impact by tackling a problem that existed long before the the storm and its aftermath swept over the city. Thirty percent of NOLA's inner-city residents are affected by lead poisoning and some areas of the city have double the EPA's threshold for toxicity for lead in soil.
Drawing the money to fund the project: One solution, an probably the most viable, is essentially to neutralize the lead, but completing such an enterprise will cost an estimated $300,000,000. The method has been titled Operation Paydirt, and the Fundred Dollar Bill Project, for which Chin is trying to get three-million people to each draw one 100-dollar bill, will raise awareness, and hopefully money, for the project. Every one of those 100-dollar, Fundred, bills bill be delivered to Congress this spring.
Watch this clip from Art21 of Mel Chin explaining the origins of Operation Paydirt in the keynote address to the 2008 National Art Education Association Convention:
Top image: A sample of Fundred dollar bills to be submitted to Congress this spring. Bottom image: The project's transport system for the $300 million in Fundreds it hopes to raise.
