Thursday, May 1, 2014
How Making Art Can Rebuild Broken Communities
"The broken places are my canvases,” Artist Lily Yeh says in the documentary The Barefoot Artist.
“People’s stories are my pigments. People’s talents and imaginations
are the instruments. I began to find my voice.” Since the 1980s, Yeh has
taken her talents to places around the world broken by poverty or war
and rebuilt those communities through the making of communal art.
Through what eventually grew into the organization Barefoot Artists,
Yeh “breathe[s] life, beauty, rhythm, and joy into th[ose] space[s]”
that “beckon” to her as the “forgotten” homes of “traumatized people.”
The directing team of Glenn Holsten and Daniel Traub
(who is also Yeh’s son) have followed Yeh’s work since 1988 and provide
an inspiring film that is sometimes painful in its honesty but always
as hopeful as Yeh’s unyielding faith in the power of art to restore the
individual spirit and rebuild shattered communities. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "How Making Art Can Rebuild Broken Communities."
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