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Gwylène Gallimard	Jean Marie Mauclet
Gwylene (Ghislaine) Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet have worked for thirty years in the field of visual arts in France and the States. They have worked independently and collaboratively. They have developed permanent and temporary art-installations which have received support from Ministère De La Culture (France), the South Carolina Arts Commission, Alternate Visions, Spoleto Festival, the Humanities Council, Alternate ROOTS and the National Endowment for the Arts. Gallimard and Mauclet's collaborative experiences include two community-oriented French cafes; art installations about the health insurance industry, the fast food phenomenon, religious beliefs and the memorialization of the past. In 2003-4 they were artistic co-directors of "My Journey Yours", a partnership with an organization of refugees in Atlanta. and "The Future is on the Table #3" where they send sculptural elements to groups over the world as a starter to promote an exchange and a dialogue about primary needs like water and shelter. In 2005/2006 this project lead them to facilitate art residencies in India and France, and participate in "Capturing the Moving Mind", an experimental conference in the Trans-Siberian train. Artistic elements of these programs could be seen at "Dialogues from the Diaspora, Art in an age of Authenticity", a MOJA exhibition. Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet’s other projects include "I still don’t get it: why do they want to be rich without us?", a large scale installation about gentrification., which was previewed in "The Changing Face of Charleston" at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in February 2007. Jean-Marie Mauclet, received an MFA in Sculpture from the State University of New York in Buffalo and studied at Cooper Union in New York. His early work, from 1976 to 1980, comprised text-inscribed, large-scale steel and stone pieces. Recent sculptural works by Mauclet cover topics like globalization, gentrification, populations displaced by war, dictatorship: "Where to…", "Si Continua" and "Vacancy". He also designs and manufactures contemporary furniture. Gwylene (Ghislaine) Gallimard's recent endeavors involve school populations, homeless communities, tenant associations, other artists and activists. Her media range from 5 miles of rope to canvas, to video. She directed the "Charleston/Atlanta/Alaska Challenge", a participatory art and education program, culminating with an outdoor large scale installation, combining environmental studies, Native Alaskan culture and contemporary art. In 2001, she was part of the Central American Festival Project of Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY. Gallimard has been the Chairman of Alternate ROOTS Resources for Social Change in 2000/02 and a facilitator for the ROOTS/Spoleto partnership "Making Art Making Home" held in June 2003. In 2006 she was a juror for the Arts Commentary program of Pennsylvania Humanities Council. She holds a MFA in Media Arts from Concordia University (Montreal) and a Diplome National Superieure des Arts Decoratifs (Paris).

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