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Astronauts see the shocking awesome relentless powerful borderless beauty of the earth, and human conflicts and achievements are invisible. Can art synthesize planetary and societal perspectives and motivate the better possible futures for life on earth? “Art is the ultimate universal communicator of complex ideas,” says Astronaut Nicole Stott.

MARTY ST. JAMES

SOMEWHERE OR INBETWEEN

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A Portrait of Anita Hill

Anne Katrine Senstad is a Norwegian artist living in New York City since the 1990s, who has a highly acclaimed international reputation for her pioneering multi-disciplinary installations of light, video, sculpture and sound, photography, and land art. However, it is little known that in the 1990s Senstad was a portrait photographer on assignment for the New York Times Magazine and other leading publications, to photograph high visibility individuals.
 

Senstad’s portrait sittings often took place in her Chelsea loft studio, recorded on film with a 4x 5 large format camera. Her photographs of Anita Hill captured the spirit of the remarkable woman who had become a national figure in 1991 following her testimony for the Supreme Court nomination hearing for Clarence Thomas about sexual harassment when she worked in his law office. In a recent interview Professor Hill talked about the continuing public crisis on gender violence, racism, equality and accountability, and called on all political candidates to come up with plans to deal with it as a public health crisis. “I tend to be a hopeful person,” she said. Watch it here  >

THE ROOT by Magna Carda
"Everybody come from somewhere or maybe no where...."
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THE OVERVIEW EFFECT describes the transforming, awesome experience of astronauts seeing earth in Space

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Survival of astronauts on the International Space Station who are from countries that are even in conflict, depends on their collaboration in maintaining the life support system. Survival of life on earth depends on the collaboration of all countries. 

Ron Garan aboard the ISS, courtesy NASA

Art communicates the real news from a humanist perspective

John F. Simon, Jr. explains that art flows naturally from an artist’s subconscious mind where information and their experiences of the world are absorbed and interpreted. 
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The arts as witness and interpreter of social issues are the best way to communicate them, and motivate reactions and solutions.

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• Arts For Justice Fund - artists and advocates working together to reform our criminal justice system
   

• Land Art Generator, a platform for sustainable energy infrastructures as works of public art
  
  LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch design challenge with Burning Man Project
   

• Bodari Kindness Institute UCLA - research, education, and practice of kindness to empower citizens and leaders to build more humane societies
   

• Time In Children’s Arts Initiative, arts program for at-risk NYC public art students
   

• National Human Genome Research Institute is transforming human health and lives in humankind's new frontier
   

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - impatient optimists working to reduce inequity; remarkable health and education programs worldwide, and much more

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• Michael Zacchea, retired Marine Lt. Col. and author, processes his post-traumatic stress in the Met's ancient Greek and Roman art galleries
   

• XPrize Foundation - promotes preferred and positive future with innovative competition models to solve the world’s grandest challenges, covering Space, Oceans, Learning, Health, Energy, Environment, Transportation, Safety and Robotics
   

• Carbon Disclosure Project - a global system for investors, companies and cities to build a sustainable economy by measuring and understanding their environmental impact

​ART, PEOPLE, AND ORGANIZATIONS actuating the positive aspirations and potential of people, and solutions to world problems