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21012-2019
ARTBARK INTERNATIONAL's FINAL PROJECT WAS FALL OF 2019
Cosmic Class Creatives Excelling at Bee-ing the Change:.
We tend the planet as we grow our souls through Epic Art-venturing.
ArtBark International: Where art intersects with social innovation and visionaries shift paradigms; valuing sustainability, cultural shamanism, inter-beingness, and creative excellence.
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HOW WE WORK
ArtBark International: Cosmic Class Creatives Excelling at Bee-ing the Change
VISION
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We seek to be the change we wish to see in the world. Harnessing our life work, we build mutual understanding and tolerance through the arts to foster a more harmonious and balanced world. When the arts thrive, hearts thrive, and communities prosper.
MISSION
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We foster and promote local, national and international connections for artists, stimulating cross-cultural exchange, economic development, and innovative artistic leadership. We’re presently focusing on embodying principles of conscious leadership (www.conscious.is).
VALUES
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Our values grow and evolve as we grow and evolve. Here are a number of attributes that we value as a community: awareness, integrity, honesty, play, creativity, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, adventure, risk and respect.
STYLE
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We organize and create collaboratively and co-creatively with an awareness that art, in part, chooses flow through us. We have organized intuitively in what Conscious Leadership calls a "By Me" or "By Us" style. We’re eager to develop a "Through Us" style of organization as a next journey of exploration.
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HOW DID YOU MEET?
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Core organizers, Stephen and Misa Kelly hailing from Santa Barbara, Mojca Majcen from Celje, Slovenia, and Trina Mannino from Brooklyn, NY met in 2011 at SonneBlauma’s inaugural ADaPT Festival - an international festival drawing over 100 artists from 5 countries, 23 different cities, with 22 happenings of dance, physical theater, emerging genres over the course of 22 days.
HOW IS YOUR ORGANIZATION STRUCTURED?
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In 2012 we shed respective hierarchical structures to embrace a collaborative/co-creative platform ArtBark International. We embrace principles of conscious leadership and are fluid with regard to who takes the role as the vision tender (as opposed to director) for each project. We work as a community to manifest our art adventures within a fresh paradigm for arts creation/organization/sharing that is circular, inclusive, and non-competitive.
YOU LIVE IN DIFFERENT CITIES - HOW DO YOU MAKE IT WORK?
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Ideas for projects are fleshed out and we hold “Skype meetings” to flesh out the bones of what seems to want to flow through us. We conduct creative research in respective cities and keep the energy moving through sharing our research via Skype, youtube, drop box, email, wesendit. We gather for intensive creative residencies and share the creations with the community in studio showing format and co-productions with other artists/organizations, or, at events produced by others.
WHERE DO YOUR RESOURCES COME FROM?
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Artists contribute of their own resources, we have a few angel patrons that support us year to year and we organize with other artists/organizations collaboratively which draws in their angels. We have recently set the intention to develop a product line to fund our Artcations, playcations, kreatkations to be together and are seeking avenues of support outside of the traditional 501 (c) 3 format.