JEMAGWGA Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Maucletjemagwga@gmail.com
Ten More Years on Penn
“Ten More Years on Penn” illustrates how artistic intervention has changed the Penn Avenue corridor and what the future might look like. Gwylene Gallimard and Jean Marie Mauclet met with community members from the neighborhoods to examine the changes that have taken place over the years and understand the effects on the people and surrounding [...]
Olympia
In our “Introduction to 701CCA”, we were projecting how the installation of what, at the time, we had called “Impressions of Olympia” would develop. We had a three-month residency at 701 to produce a work having to do with the social and architectural history of the Olympia Cotton Mills and the operatives’ living quarters called [...]
I Still Don’t Get It: Why Do They Want to be Rich Without Us?
I Still Don’t Get It: Why Do They Want to be Rich Without Us? This project started as a memorial to a housing complex, which was demolished a few years ago. Four hundred people were forced out. At that time Gwylene fabricated “SHOREVIEW”, described by Neill Bogan as”a monumental remembrance of a destroyed low-income housing complex [...]
Gaulart & Maliclet/Fast & French
… And then Fast & French turned 25! www.fastandfrenchcharleston.com Thank you so much! May 3rd 2009 WAS YOUR DAY. Nothing would have been accomplished or would have had much meaning without your active participation, or your presence, or your extended support. We sent Joe Riley, the Mayor of Charleston, a formal letter of thanks for [...]
The Future is On the Table
Main artists participating with JEMAGWGA in this project are The Arpan Cooperative, Phinias Chirubvu, Omari Fox, Aurore Gruel, Arianne King Comer, Wok Marcia Kure, Rajni Shah and Delphine Ziegler. For Information and Documentation, see http://thefutureisonthetable.ning.com Pictures, blogs, notes on all events and participants are packed on that site. On that site you can also download [...]
Conversations With Time
Conversations With Time The performances of CONVERSATIONS WITH TIME at the 35th Anniversary of Alternate ROOTS in West Baltimore attempted to present the journey of the project, not as documentation but as a rehearsal in real life. They were very inclusive. They meant to be educational but not a ‘how to’ guide. They were close [...]
My Journey Yours
“MY JOURNEY YOURS” (MJY) is an art program designed by REFUGEE FAMILY SERVICES (RFS of Clarkston, GA) and artists Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet with Rebekah Stone. It started in the fall of 2002. My Journey Yours from Gwylene Gallimard on Vimeo. The title MY JOURNEY YOURS (MJY), suggests that we all are on a [...]
Charleston/Atlanta/Alaska Challenge
Common Memory: The Community Visual Art Challenge of Gwylene Gallimard
You Comin’
“YOU COMIN’ “ The article was published in UP FROM THE ROOTS, spring 2007 See www.alternateroots.org And watch “YOU COMIN?”, part one, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVPhf5WfrME YOU COMIN’ What we often call The Charleston Rhizome of Alternate ROOTS is centered on creating collaborative art works, which strengthen community. Our group is diverse in race, age, income, talent, [...]
Please have a seat
PLEASE HAVE A SEAT Five love-benches, built by us, painted in pastel colors. When two people sit, side by side, yet face to face, and start a conversation, they may explore the surface of the bench, left open between them. They will discover then, engraved into the wood, two “head to tail” sentences: one each. [...]
