Art as Diplomacy: The Adolf Cluss Sculpture Project
 "Artists are the world's most expressive people... there are the people who speak for millions and millions of people and for their feelings and for their thoughts. So we desperately need to harness the energy of these people and to get them to address the serious, horrible issues that are facing us as a peoples of the world in general"
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As a member of the international Adolf Cluss consortium, the Goethe-Institut Washington has helped organize exhibitions about Adolf Cluss in the United States and Germany from September 2005 through February 2006. Following the exhibitions, sculpture installations in Washington, DC and Heilbronn, Germany--Cluss's birthplace--will be lasting testaments to cultural dialogue and international art exchange. Cultural organizations attempt to do whatever may be in their power to weave nations together. In an age where relations between the United States and Europe are often strained, international art exchange can be a significant act of cultural diplomacy. The Cluss consortium and Lancaster Studios are working together to create two identical Cluss sculptures. We are searching for an appropriate studio in Germany at an arts academy that would be available for Charles Lancaster as a resident artist from September 2006 to June 2007. |
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  Sculpture Project Contact:
William Gilcher
Media Projects North America, Goethe-Institut 812 7th Street NW Washington, DC 20001-3718 wgilcher@washington.goethe.org 202-289-3777 202-289-3535 Fax |
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