Take To The Air
24″ X 36 “X 48” Mixed media Rescued Objects from a Cuban Beach 2002
My visit to Cuba in 2002 was very enlightening. I was conducting research for a unit on the objects created during the “Especial Periodico”, the Special Period, after the Soviet Union’s economic collapse. I met ( on the sly) with dissident artists who had staged a traveling extra-national exhibit which had been shut down by Castro’s regime.
This work, Take to the Air, was created using found objects from a 1 hour beach walk. The Cubans do not collect beach glass. There are no industrial regulations in Cuba. If the pollution continues, the sea creatures will have to “take to the air” to survive. See Lesson Plan.
Creatures Cultures Lesson Plan Unit-2-2012
2014 Ann MArie GAllery, MAryland
Please click Here to see pictures from the Chicago exhibition. Take to the Air won the corner office in the Robert Morris Gallery!
2014 Accepted for Exhibition at the Women’s Caucus for Art (College Art Association) Conference February 2014. http://www.nationalwca.org/newspanel/index.php?cat=2 Click Here for Invitation to Opening
NEMAA Art-A-Whirl Artist talk
