An original short film by middle school students of James Simons Public Montessori in collaboration with TINYisPOWERFUL, YoArt!, and filmmaker/multi-media artist Daniel Green in the fall 2023 school semester mini lessons. Click here to watch the film and others:...
In April 2024 TINYisPOWERFUL with Yo Art and filmmaker/multi-media artist Daniel Green launched the second iteration of a film mini lesson course in collaboration with middle school students at James Simons Montessori school (a public school located in downtown...
By Jean-Marie Mauclet Regardless of the way the State Port Authority was offered the Union Pier property free of any reverter clause, the City of Charleston should regard "this once-in-a-century opportunity" as an opportunity for all citizens, a common opportunity, a...
By: Jean-Marie Mauclet Last week, LaSheia sent Gwylène a newspaper article in French, from the popular science magazine Sciences et Avenir, entitled: l'ADN ancien redonne de leur identité à des esclaves africains vendus en Amérique du Nord. This translated to English...
This is a link to Advisor Darryl Wellington's performance reenactment of the life and times of the great Black American writer, Richard Wright, the author of Native Son and Black Boy. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10lvjBa2qV-OanC0bULxxIy7Um8KCkmPc/view
Art and Making as Tools for a Visionary See PDF file: CLICK HERE TO READ A CONVERSATION BETWEEN VICTORIA AND JEAN-MARIE READ MORE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ARTISTS HERE
Summary: Last year TINYisPOWERFUL participated in the 5th annual Charleston Zine Fest (2022) – an initiative started by Leigh Sabish of Sarden Press that was primarily organized by Sage Graham this year. During this event artists, zine makers and a diverse set of TINY...
Art and Making as Tools for a Visionary See PDF file: Click here to read A Conversation RAYN with JEMAGWGA For the TINYisPOWERFUL collective to be viable, it needs to keep in close contact with its outside partners and supporters. This is the purpose of our NEWSLETTER...
“Art is everything” is about seeing all of life and beyond as an art. While “a zine can be anything,” engulfs the concept that any topic and set of materials can be used to share our perceptions of the world with others. Both of these statements carry with them the...
as published in the Santa Fe Reporter By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington April 27, 2022 April is National Poetry Month. Of course, to my mind, National Poetry Month, like Black History Month, is a bit of a redundancy, since every month is an occasion to revisit art and...
November 13, 2019 essay published in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Community Development Innovation Review documenting some of the lessons learned during the Strategic Planning art work performed by Significant Developments for the Jackson Medical Mall as...
It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Wim Roefs, one of 701 Center for Contemporary Art’s founders and always one of its fiercest advocates. He will be missed by everyone who believes in the value of arts and artists for our communities. But most of...
Learning for Justice: https://www.learningforjustice.org/ Social Justice Standards Facilitator Guide PDF: https://www.learningforjustice.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/TT-Social-Justice-Standards-Facilitator-Guide-WEB_0.pdf CCSD Cultural Competency Policy -...
"Property matters. It's more than just a parcel of land. It's also window to the past that tells the story of a family, a community, a way of life. Knowing your family's history and culture creates a sense of place and belonging. The loss of heirs' property has impact...
l would just like to uplift the name of Reverend Clementa Pinckney I heard him give a speech about the first Memorial Day in Charleston for the first time in May of that year but by June he was dead. We also lift up the names of Cynthia Hurd, Reverend Sharonda Coleman...
In-person space is limited so please RSVP to TINYisPOWERFUL@gmail.com TINYisPOWERFUL at its core is process-oriented and prioritizes a journey toward an unknown destination or series of destinations we can create together. Thus we are edge dwellers who utilize and...
Who are YOU ALL named or not?... Guess!!! YOU, my co-workers, my mentors, my friends, elders, fellow travelers and family; YOU, who influenced me and whom I may have influenced; YOU in pain, or who have passed away too early or at least before we could converse...
The diary of TINYisPOWERFUL was started on 10-19-2017. Not a chronological history of the Charleston Rhizome Collective's work. More like a personal view of what it brought to me and what I contributed to it: thoughts, references, background, sometimes the experiences...
1984: originally, it was an art project conceived by Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet, a “conceptual and information art" project. When it became a real business , downtown Charleston, an eatery with healthy, basic, affordable French food, they called...
Jean-Marie Mauclet: Art and Making as Tools for a Visionary See PDF file: KIT LONEY on Jean-Marie Mauclet For the TINYisPOWERFUL collective to be viable, it needs to keep in close contact with its outside partners and supporters. This is the purpose of our NEWSLETTER...
Season 2 - Ep. 1 - Collective Identity w/ Victoria and Rayn LISTEN BELOW Charleston Rhizome Collective · Season 2 - Ep. 1 - Collective Identity w/ Victoria and Rayn FULL EPISODE Episode 1 | A Reflection on Collective Identity w/ Victoria & Rayn Thought Question:...
It might look like me It might look like my father it might look like my daughter it might look like diabetics it might look like paramedics it might look like the systems like invisible systems it might loom like me it might move in the night but it moves in the...
There is no pre-existing agenda. This format transforms participants in leaders of the conversation. Each of them has a chance to ask a question and to answer another one. Here is a description of our process: conNECKtedTOO --> TINYisPOWERFUL RELAY QUESTION Process...
When in Charleston, pre-covid, Sarah Turquety, with a simple exercise in social awareness, transformed a disparate group of individualists into a cluster of community strong neighbors. Her poetry speaks of solidarity, militancy, family, nature. Her voice is spiced with a ray of sun. She is young and French, an artist living in a region of villages with 200 to 2000 inhabitants, in SW France
Click here for the 2021 TINY Dialogue Booklet The work of TINYisPOWERFUL is process-oriented and prioritizes a journey toward an unknown destination or series of destinations we can create together. At its core, TINY is about the power of human connection -- the...
Jenna Teves researched, wrote and illustrated a coloring book on Awesome Southern Women. She's doing a book-signing at the only local Black woman- owned bookstore, Turning Page, on Saturday, May 15th from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, and she's donating the proceeds from sales of...
Darryl Wellington will be teaching an online workshop “Writing Fiction and Nonfiction about Racism” at the Taos Writing Conference, on July 23rd. Please consider attending. Limited space available. You can read details about the workshop here:...
William "Bill" Cleveland (Center for the Study of Art and Community) was kind enough to interview me on his podcast "Change the Story". Was great looking back to my teaching days when I traveled the South teaching poetry in urban and rural communities. For over 30...
CLICK HERE TO READ A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ARIANNE AND JEAN-MARIE AROUND HER RESIDENCY AT THE GIBBES GALLERY For the TINYisPOWERFUL collective to be viable, it needs to keep in close contact with its outside partners and supporters. This is the purpose of our...
FROM JEAN-MARIE, The following is an exercise in approaching a body of artwork by one of TINYisPOWERFUL’s members, Morgan Kinne, as she presents it at Redux until the end of this month. First, Morgan and I had two long meetings at the gallery. I already knew the work...
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This document is based on TINYisPOWERFUL (TiP) values as outlined in its mission & vision (www.tinyispowerful.com/about-us/), as well as four conversations by the TiP Circle of Advisors (Summer and fall 2020). We believe that ART & TINY BUSINESS are nimble,...
Letter about G&M French Café’s outdoor permit from Charleston County from Jean-Marie Mauclet & Gwylene Gallimard, founders of Fast & French / G & M French Café Read about the history of Fast & French and the ongoing call for maintaining their...
Launch of TOGETHERWESHALL.COM website, blog, online store and podcast by D.R.I.V.E.N. LLC Watch "The Power of Art" Podcast Episode 1 which included a few TINY BUSINESSES & ARTISTS discussing what "art" means and how the power of art can be used as a tool to...
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This shirt was designed by Arianne KING COMER after conversations with Donald BENNETT of ROSE FLORIST Although he never saw one, Donald loves EAGLES. The pictures are from his shop on SPRING Street. I visited him recently. He asked: "What is a GRIOT? - Same word in...
conNECKtedTOO —> TINYisPOWERFUL.com is a Partner for Change with Alternate ROOTS and The Surdna Foundation NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - America without racism, can you imagine? Partners for Change launches with ROOTS’ first 3-year initiative and a strategic...
(click here for original formatting) conNECKtedTOO—>TINYisPOWERFUL is launching an other Art and Culture, in/with community experiment in defense of TINY BUSINESS as a sustainable form of commerce. After ‘the Charleston Cut’, dedicated to barbering, we are...
for conNECKtedTOO --> TINYisPOWERFUL (as published in Newsletter #12) CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL TEXT WITH FORMATTING WHAT DO I WISH TO SEE? A Tiny Business conNECKtedTOO… becoming …TINYisPOWERFUL: with a strong young leadership of mainly people of...
TRIVIA: Who are they? CLICK HERE AND SEE IF YOU CAN FIND CROWN VISION MEDIA, ARIANNE'S ARTIST WAY AND CHOICE'S GOURMET MARKET & DELI in this TINY BUSINESS community
In wake of our community and national response to the ongoing murder of Black Americans by police, conNECKtedTOO --> TINYisPOWERFUL has decided to gather resources for those seeking information on anti-racist and anti-police information. It is our responsibility to...
Materials Needed: – Paper -- construction paper, printing paper, cardstock, paper bag paper -- any of these – Old magazines, photos, decorative papers if you have them – Scissors – Glue or tape or stapler – Pencil...
From: Jean-Marie Mauclet, for conNECKtedTOO—>TINYisPOWERFUL conNECktedTOO@gmail.com 843-637-9733 68 Devereaux St, Charleston , SC 29403 Charleston, May 8, 2020 Dear Councilwoman Carol Jackson, Thank you for giving the conNECKtedTOO Art team of the Charleston...
Materials Needed: - Brown paper bags OR sheets of paper to fold - Markers/crayons/color pencils - Pencil - Collage materials such as magazines, scrap paper, decorative paper, fabric scraps - Scissors - Glue,...
Materials Needed: - Paper or cardboard from paper bags, cereal or pasta boxes, junk mail, old holiday cards, etc. - One or two sheets of white paper, cardstock, or cardboard - Markers or color pencils or crayons/oil pastels - pencil - scissors -...
Materials Needed: - four plastic drinking straws (optional) - 2 x 2 inch piece of cardboard - jumbo paperclips - tape - three pipe cleaners - yarn - large button OR plastic milk jug lid with a hole poked through OR sturdy cardboard disc with a...
Materials Needed: - 3 or 4 brown paper grocery bags - String or yarn - Scissors - A pencil OPTIONAL MATERIALS: - A postcard or heavy paper (construction, cardstock, etc.) for the cover & 4 - 6 sheets of paper (same size as cover or slightly...
Reynolds Avenue in North Charleston is where conNECKtedTOO chose to present its cumulated works, when it was time to unwind two years of collaborative art thinking and art making. Reynolds is far from the centers of Charleston’s culture, in a rundown urban...
by Markelle Elizabeth Evans Last Friday, conNECKtedTOO hosted its third Zoom gathering during quarantine in regards to the health and safety of our communities during COVID19. For those that are not familiar with Zoom, it has risen in popularity...
