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the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City launches a Franco-American Transatlantic art contest for students in grades pre-K to 12 . Summary of June 7 th lecture/presentation.
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conference room of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy - New York
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Over the past years the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York under the initiative of Fabrice Jaumont has organized art competitions open to students from the New York schools - [ top winners have always been rewarded with generous prices ] . They are all linked to key historical celebration events, the last one was the “Eiffel Tower” – this contest received over one thousand entries.
Because of the growing popularity of this events, Fabrice Jaumont asked for my collaboration in this incoming project. He figured out ‘artists ‘ may be best suited to respond to ‘artistic’ problems; while in fact, this project requires the skills of an investigator journalist. Luckily, I am somehow aquatinted with the medias. For a number of years I have been commissioned to illustrate a whole variety of opinions and topics for several newspapers, magazines and publishers – overall the work boils down on finding responses to any imaginable subject. In this respect, figuring out a contest proposal is not much different: it follows the same guided lines. Let me present the message of “Rock the Statue Green” and what it hopes to generate.
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Why ” Rock the Statue Green” ?
ROCK: to escape by all means formality and welcome free expression.
STATUE: to include in the program of the 125 years celebration of the Statue of Liberty.
GREEN: to relate this event to the environment, a 2011 vital issue .
Fabrice Jaumont introduces the art contest - June 7th
125 years separate us from the day when the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the USA, was unveiled. Indeed a very long time ago, since radical changes have occurred in our today’s daily life. One major change is how our human activity has impacted our environment. Examples would be too many to name, and this alone reflex the urgency to connect the Statue of Liberty with this pressing issue. This implies that this year contest should strongly reflect the following criteria:
1 . link to environment issues
2 . use of recyclable materials
3 . large scale project
4 . visible to the public - raze awareness
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- link to environment issues
it is undeniable that the amount of garbage we are able to generated has reached an alarming proportion – if we don’t raise awareness and take action, today’s students will be forced to live tomorrow’s as adults in a negatively impacted surrounding – and so will, any form of life with them. It would be a hard punishment to impose on them. In part, this is the consequence of our selfishness, lack of self discipline and vision, and false convenience link to laziness. This phenomena has to be taking with great consideration.
a portrait of how Liberty may look like in a few year
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