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| Time to Consider: the arts respond to 9.11 is a poster/media art campaign to be launched in late January that will bring informed and considerate creative responses to September 11 into the public realm. Initiated by Creative Time, which is now in partnership with Poets & Writers, the Van Alen Institute, and Worldstudio Foundation, the poster campaign will feature designs by several artistic disciplines: visual arts, literary arts, architecture, and graphic designers collaborating with youth, respectively. The posters will be sniped on the street, freely distributed at a selection of public forums, and downloadable from the Internet. These creative responses express a range of ways in which the September 11 tragedies have changed society, while utilizing the power of the arts to provide understanding, promote tolerance and dialogue, and encourage individual reflection or even action. Since September 11, millions of Americans have expressed their overwhelming desire for strong visual, iconic and literary expression, as is evidenced by the preponderance of our national flag, impromptu public memorials, and the sharing of W.H. Auden's mournful poem, "September 1, 1939." The partners in Time to Consider have solicited submissions from within their discipline that respond to September 11 and its aftermath, either directly or indirectly. This cross-disciplinary partnership will give architects, artists, designers collaborating with youth, and writers venues for expression and while promoting a shared commitment to the arts.
Organizational Descriptions Creative Time is a nonprofit arts organization with a 30-year history of presenting public arts projects of all disciplines through both grassroots activism and highly prominent venues. From the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Grand Central Terminal and Times Square to milk cartons, billboards, and skywriting over New York City, Creative Time has a long and distinguished history of commissioning and presenting art that enhances the public realm, inspires and provokes discussion of socially relevant topics such as domestic violence, HIV/AIDS pandemic, genetic engineering, and now, the recuperation of New York City in the face of terrorism. www.creativetime.org. Poets & Writers, Inc. is the nation's largest literary service organization. P&W fosters the professional development of writers and helps create an environment in which literature can be appreciated by the widest possible public. Since it’s founding in 1970, P&W has focused on the source of literature, providing information, support, and guidance to writers at all stages in their careers. P&W accomplishes this by publishing Poets & Writers Magazine, offering how-to-publish seminars, supporting writers participating in public literary events, and introducing emerging writers outside of New York to the New York City literary community. As a co-founder of the Literary Network, Poets & Writers continues to champion the cause of freedom of expression and advocates on behalf of writers for public funding of literature and the arts. www.pw.org. |
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