Artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn create community art by painting entire neighborhoods, and involving those who live there -- from the favelas of Rio to the streets of North Philadelphia. What's made their projects succeed? In this funny and inspiring talk, the artists explain their art-first approach -- and the importance of a neighborhood barbecue.

https://www.ted.com/talks/haas_hahn_how_painting_can_transform_communities?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Gardens are mirrors of our lives, says environmental artist tobacco brown, and we must cultivate them with care to harvest their full beauty. Drawing on her experience bringing natural public art installations to cities around the world, brown reveals what gardening can teach us about creating lives of compassion, connection and grace.

https://www.ted.com/talks/tobacco_brown_what_gardening_taught_me_about_life?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."

https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

0 views