![The Collective Impulse—Notes from Sharjah](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/588281_90b32deda0f1c829b5dae04de848a6e0.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Today, we take you to Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, to share stories from the Sharjah Art Foundation’s 2024 March Meeting. Across three days, artists, curators, educators and writers from near and far converge to consider the power and purpose of collective creativity.
![When Artists Who Teach Make Art](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Walton_Ft-image.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
This episode considers the role that teaching artists play in shaping the art school experience. With Southeastern Louisiana University as our case study, we explore an important question: How does an artist in academia cultivate expressive opportunities for students while making time to deepen their own creative practice?
![Creating Community in Kazakhstan—with CEC ArtsLink](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023_Almaty_Listening_crop_900.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Where in the world can you express yourself freely, share cultural knowledge, test inventive art practices, and build a transnational creative community in only 10…
![Poetic Interventions Point to Pollution in Kyrgyzstan](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/LandfillM-opening.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Today, we introduce a few of the artists and activists energizing the 2023 Art Prospect & TRASH-5 Festival in Kyrgyzstan. They give voice to the…
![Counterpublic STL 2023](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/RenderingDavidAdjaye_Griot_AdjayeAssociates-e1684625184507.webp?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Counterpublic is listening to the city of St. Louis. In 2023, the young art triennial responds—with creative interventions that engage public memory.
![FRESH VUE—Sharjah Biennial 15](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/HajraWaheed_HumII_2023.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
We are privileged to share views from Sharjah Biennial 15 opening week. Watch for our continued posts and stories @freshartintl and Listen to episodes from SB15 anywhere you go for podcasts.
![Thinking Historically in the Present](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/HelinaMetafaria_TheWilling.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
On the 30th anniversary of the Sharjah Biennial, we sit down with curator Hoor Al Qasimi to talk about the inclusive ethos in Thinking Historically in the Present.
![Miami Art Week 2022](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/BANNER_MIAMIARTWEEK_2022.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Miami Art Week 2002—Across mediums, and particularly within painting, the traditional art circuit seemed to be weaving itself into a new ecosystem, one that values the digital, the absurd, the commercial, and the culturally relevant.
![Diaspora Art from the Creole City—with Rosie Gordon-Wallace](https://i0.wp.com/freshartinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2295_intersectionality-diaspora-art-from-the-creole-city_crop.jpeg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Now, more than ever, culture transcends geographic boundaries. In this episode, we explore the impact of that global phenomenon on the visibility of contemporary diaspora art with Miami-based curator and arts advocate Rosie Gordon-Wallace. In 1996, Gordon-Wallace launched a transformative enterprise, now known as Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator.
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Artists we meet in San Juan convey the promise and pathos of this Caribbean island. In this segment of our Puerto Rico Rising series, four Puerto Rican creatives offer insight into how art can join forces with the strength of community to contemplate beauty and the paradoxes of everyday life.