All kinds of art by or about people, communities and/or things pushed to the edge. The term "Marginality" is used by Anthropologist Victor Turner to define the state of simultaneously belonging to two or more social or cultural groups.
Ruth and Marvin Sackner share their love of words and images with an intimate tour of their Miami Beach home/museum -- the largest private collection of its kind. Over sixty-thousand objects from around the word speak volumes about a compulsive and joyful life of collecting art, poetry, and artist books.
Help your neighborhood to design its own flag!
First, we’d like to listen to your stories, and to hear the many voices of individuals and communities in your neighborhood. We also want to identify the creative individuals of the neighborhood: the artist and writers, poets, musicians, and crafts people of course, but also the unusual or overlooked eccentrics, the seamstresses, dancers, decorators, enthusiasts, activists and cartoonists. We want to talk to the historians, archivists and honored personalities, as well as troublesome renters, ‘tweens and teens, immigrants, and the homeless. We want as many different perspectives on the notion of “neighborhood identity” that we can get. We want to record the conversations and collect them into a document for public record. The flag will be designed by neighbors, and assisted when necessary from outside, using the documents gathered as a source. We need help in making this a neighborhood project. As many volunteers as possible are needed to gather stories, and collect responses to a few standard questions.
