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May 30, 2019 | 16:02
>I actually watched the entire clip. I give it an A-.
>Fired [Amazon] a year ago, have not missed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_5fNe-xnYk
>6645023
>Obviously not on a payroll…
>[BROCK]! Shut the f*ckin' door!!!
2018-05-15 05:18:10 (UTC+1)
Allison Mack [NXIVM] arrested [date]?
When does a bird sing?
>When caged…
Art in Embassies Program (AIEP)
>http://www.old.allgov.com/agency/Art_in_Embassies_Program
Art in Embassies Program (AIEP) promotes the cultural identity of America’s art and artists by borrowing original works of art by U.S. citizens for display in approximately 180 U.S. embassy residences worldwide. These exhibitions are collections of art loaned from galleries, museums, individual artists, and corporate and private collections. Each exhibition is developed collaboratively between a United States ambassador and one of AIEP’s curators.
History
AIEP was established within the United States Department of State in 1964 by President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie. President Kennedy had the goal of promoting national pride and a sense of cultural identity by displaying America’s art and its artists throughout the world. According to the program's first director, Nancy Kefauver, the group's original goal was to cover "those bare white walls in embassies abroad." Today the program places more than 5,000 works of art, including original paintings, sculptures and prints, in the public rooms of the ambassadors’ homes of nearly 170 U.S. Embassies worldwide.
What it Does
Art in Embassies has a team of curators in charge of organizing exhibitions. "We try to create thematic exhibitions so they can tell a story in themselves" said Gwen Berlin, director of AIEP. For example, in Paris, the U.S. Ambassador to France has hosted an exhibition of U.S. women artists who have lived and worked in France. AIEP organizes exhibitions in collaboration with each ambassador. The team also negotiates all loans, and, once all loans are secured and the art is insured, AIEP’s registrars coordinate with professional art handlers for the assembling, packing, crating and safe shipment of each exhibition to post. The length of the loans is usually two and a half to three years, which coincides with the average length of an ambassador’s tenure. Lenders are not compensated financially, but a collection catalog is compiled from each embassy, which documents the collection, promotes the artists and acknowledges the lender. A wall label accompanies each work of art and identifies both the artists and lender.
"I don't know that there's any other country that is as free and open to express themselves as our artists are and we want to make sure everybody in the world understands that," said Gwen Berlin, director of the AIEP.
American Artists Abroad
American Artists Abroad was initiated in 2002 and was created to extend art in embassies’ exhibitions beyond the walls of the U.S diplomatic residents into local communities. Participating American artists travel to countries where their work is exhibited and engage in public cultural programming activities, such as lectures, workshops, and studio visits.
Art in Embassies (AIE), a program within the U.S. Department of State, creates vital cross-cultural dialogue and mutual understanding through the visual arts and dynamic artist exchanges.
As a public-private partnership, AIE engages over 20,000 international participants, including artists, museums, galleries, universities, and private collectors.
The program develops and presents approximately 60 exhibitions per year and have installed over 70 permanent art collections in the Department’s diplomatic facilities in over 200 venues in 189 countries.
>https://www.art.state.gov/