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TransCultural Exchange
TransCultural Exchange originated as an artists-run organization in 1989 to create transdisciplinary, international projects between artists around the globe. .[1] In 2002, it gained 501(c)(3) non-profit organization status, registered in the State of Massachusetts[2] Its stated mission is "to foster a greater understanding of world cultures through large-scale global projects, artist exchanges and, most notably, an International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts.”[3]
Work
Since its founding, it has produced in more than 200 cultural exchanges, exhibitions, public art works and forums in over sixty countries. All of these have involved artists from different cultures, working across disciplines and, typically, include artist exchanges and collaborations as key components. [3]
Projects
The Coaster Project and The Coaster Project, Destination: The World
In 2000, TransCultural Exchange launched its first Coaster Project at the 2000 London Biennale, founded by the artist David Medalla link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Medalla [4] In 2002, the artists used the internet as a tool to solicit artists for another version of the project, which spanned the globe, including an installation in Antarctica.[5] More than 100 artists participated, making artworks in the form of coasters that were exhibited in traditional and non-traditional settings and then distributed, free of charge around the world. In total more than 10,000 artworks were freely given away at bars, restaurants, museums and cafes, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston link to this wikipage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Fine_Arts,_Boston, [6] Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Chicago Cultural Center, [7][ Inner Mongolia Museum of Fine Arts, Ichon Art Center. The Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art and National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. A small group from the Teatro Dimtri in Canton Ticino (March 9 – April 28, 2002) ended up in the collection of Harold Szeemann. Link to this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Szeemann
The Tile Project, Destination: The World
The Tile Project, Destination: The World was a project organized by TransCultural Exchange in 2004. This project resulted in 22 new public artworks. For these public art works, artists, students and teachers from over 40 countries, donated more than 2000 tiles to the 22 world sites to create 22 site-specific works as symbols of global cooperation and respect for cultural differences. [8][9][10] Sponsored by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UNESCO's then Director-General Koichiro Matsurra, noted of the project, "This original project linking together artists all over the world in a spirit of international harmony and exchange, ties in directly with the main objectives of UNESCO's programme in the field of art and creativity and the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue." Among the 22 sites are Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico, outside the subway at Toronto’s Wallace Emerson Park [11] link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Emerson, the Cultural Center of the Philippines[12]New Zealand’s Pataka Art + Museum, link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataka_Art_%2B_Museum, Centre for Visual Art at University of KwaZulu-Natal and the The City of Chinchón's Ethnological Museum.
The International Conference of Opportunities in Arts
In 2007, the organization began producing the largest international forum, geared specifically for working artists, to meet, network and exchange best practices, TransCultural Exchange’s International Conferences on Opportunities in the Arts.[13][14] The conference is known for launching many collaborative projects among artists and between the organizations presenting at the Conference. Past speakers have included Michael Dukakis, Ute Meta Bauer, Octavio Zaya, Sarat Maharaj, David Medalla and Laurie Anderson .[15] The 2013 Conference centerpiece was an art installation by Florian Dombois, a laser that was projected from the roof tops of two tall buildings, over the location of the Conference at Boston University.[16] In 2016, the President and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation Sheikha HoorAl Qasimi was a keynote speaker and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Level of Confidence” was featured. In 2018, the Conference was held in Quebec City, Canada. In 2019 Vernon Press published the peer-reviewed International Opportunities in the Arts, culled from talks presented at TransCultural Exchange’s International Conferences on Opportunities in the Arts.[17]
Funding
TransCultural Exchange is funded through individual, corporate and institutional grants, including two $25,000 grants from the National Endowment of Arts in 2013 and 2016,[18] along with smaller grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Asian Cultural Council, Mondriaan Foundation, Open Society Initiative and Soros Foundation Network, The Puffin Foundation, among many others.
References
[1] Art New England, "TransCultural Exchange," January/February 2016, by Meg Pier.
[2] "Mary Sherman of TransCultural Exchange". Art New England. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
[3] http://transculturalexchange.org/about/mission.htm, accessed March 4, 2020.
[4] Flux News, “Mary Sherman: Les jeunes artistes doivent se render . .. “, September 2016, by Yannick Franck.
[5] International Gallerie: A Journal of Ideas, "The Coaster Project," Vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 39, Bharati Kapadi, 2002.
[6] Ibid.
[7] The Boston Globe , "Inventiveness Spill over in 'Coaster Project," May 30, 2002, Geoff Edgers.
[8] The Reader, "Art under Glass," March 29, 2002, Vol. 31, No. 26, p. 20. (Chicago)
[9] Architecture, Time, Space & People, Vol. 4, Issue 8, (August, 2004), "The Tile Project," Merher Pestonji.
[10] Ceramics TECHNICAL, "The Tile Project, Destination: The World," Vol. 21,

    November 2005, Randi Sherman, pp. 82-85.

[11] The China Times, “Art and Culture: Mary Sherman and TransCultural

    Exchange,” Grace Chen, May 14, 2006.

[12] The Star, “Dreamers and Doers: The art of transformation,” April 23, 2010, Tess Kalinowski.
[13] Cyber Dyaryo, “100 International Artists Mount Public Art to Promote

    Unity,” May 10, 2005.

[14] Quebec Daily Examiner, "Exploring New Horizons: TransCultural Exchange’s 6th International Conference on Opportunities in the Art," by Asheley Owens, November 6, 2017.
[15] CISION, "2018 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Exploring New Horizons, February 1, 2018.
[16] "Mary Sherman's TransCultural Exchange Hosts Boston Event". Berkshire Fine Arts. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
[17] Sculpture magazine, "Boston, Florian Dombois, Boston University," April 2013, by Jane Ingram Allen, p. 73.
[18] TransCultural Exchange, International Opportunities in the Arts, Vernon Press, 2019.
[19] "NEA Grant Boosts Sherman's Non Profits". Boston College. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
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Srcohen614 (talk) 12:43, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

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Information to be added or removed: undisclosed payment tag Explanation of issue: Non-affiliated individual was paid to write the article; we did not know it needed to be disclosed. References supporting change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Srcohen614#Help_me%21 Srcohen614 (talk) 21:04, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Please remove "This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use. It may require clean-up to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. (November 2019)"

I have declared a conflict of interest as I am an unpaid volunteer board member of the TransCultural Exchange.

Thank you.

@Srcohen614: please discuss it with other editors on this article talk page. many thanks Trains2050 (talk) 18:48, 9 June 2020 (UTC)