Gazonga! was a breast-cancer awareness project in the fall of 2015 Please enjoy this gallery of media and social-media grabs from the project. Questions may be directed to Gazonga’s Facebook page..
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- It started with a call to action. Hot Springs is a fine arts hotspot, so it seemed like the perfect place.
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- I distributed some artist’s bills…
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- …set up a Facebook page…
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- …and promoted my partner businesses, all located in downtown Hot Springs.
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- I kept my social media pages updated throughout
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- I was the featured poet at Wednesday Night Poetry, the longest-continuous-running weekly poetry performance in the nation.
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- And Red Door Studios was kind enough to host me for a quick interview afterward. I read a poem or two and talked about the Gazonga! project.
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- At each installation site, a poster naming the artist and work, and providing a QR code for viewers to vote. The QR leads to a page at Shortstack.
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- “Tales from the South” is a storytelling project which creates live tapings of storytellers reading or telling their tales. It is broadcast on the nearby NPR affiliate. We scheduled a taping of breast-cancer-themed stories for the closing-night party. We also planned to award the artists’s prizes and then auction the works themselves.
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- Life Obliges Us. Mixed media. 2015. T. Thibodeaux Baar
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- Love Is Messy, Honey. Mixed media. 2105 T. Thibodeaux Baar
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- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Mixed media. 2015. Linda Constantino. This is the arrangement for installations: the art was hung or posted on an easel in a store window, and signage was placed in or on the window.
