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Clayton Campbell Shares the Passing of Associate Rudolf Brünger; Cultural Producer, Visionary, and founding member of Cultural Centre UfaFabrik in Berlin

ThoughtsBy Clayton Campbell March 30, 2022

The ufaFabrik Berlin regrets to announce, the passing of Rudolf Brünger on the 23rd of March 2016. Rudolf Brünger, founding member and executive director of the International Cultural Centre ufaFabrik in Berlin will be sadly missed. An academic, driven by a tireless vision of sustainability in culture and creativity, he was an artist of humanity,…

An Interview with Curator N’Gone Fall About Her New Exhibition, When Things Fall Apart, Featuring artists from Africa, Asia, and Palestine

ArchiveBy Clayton Campbell March 30, 2022

Clayton Campbell: What was the original impetus for you to curate this show? When the Trapholt Museum established a broad theme of the Artist in Society, why did you arrive at When Things Fall Apart? Did you have autonomy to choose your own theme? N’Gone Fall: The exhibition is part of a yearlong art festival…

Hauser Wirth and Schimmel Gallery Opens to Huge Crowds in LA’s Arts District

ArchiveBy Clayton Campbell March 30, 2022

LA’s newest gallery addition is more like a small kunsthalle as former LA MOCA Chief Curator and now HWS Partner Paul Schimmel leads the way for Hauser and Wirth’s sixth international gallery. Opening yesterday, March 13 in the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles, huge crowds blocked the sidewalks and cars filled the streets for…

The Annual Otis College of Art and Design Creative Economy Report and Nobel Prize Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz’ Words of Warning

ThoughtsBy Clayton Campbell March 30, 2022

Otis College of Art and Design released its 2015 Creative Economy Report on February 27 and for its annual showing of the importance of this sector in California if not the nation gave a summary of facts and figures designed to advocate on behalf of the importance of the Creative Economy. By the study’s count,…

Cultural Production in a Time of War/Clayton Campbell

ArchiveBy Clayton Campbell March 30, 2022

We are reprinting this updated essay, first published in Contemporary Magazine, London, October 2006, because it remains even more relevant today. Cultural Production in a Time of War/Clayton Campbell (The images are from Clayton Campbell’s project Words My Son Has Learned Since 9/11, begun in 2006, which was shown at the Maison Europennee de la…

Zandie Brockett Curates and Launches An Innovative Cross Cultural Exhibition, “Teetering at the Edge of the World” at Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo in Uruguay

ArchiveBy Clayton Campbell March 30, 2022

Zandie Brockett, raised in the US and based in Beijing and Shanghai, is a rising curator who is looking closely at shifting social and economic trends by generating cross cultural arts projects. Her newest venture, “Teetering at the Edge of the World” examines specifically how the city, and the rise of the megalopolis is impacting…

The Santa Fe Art Institute Pioneers SFAI Works, A New Social Entrepreneurship Incubator

ThoughtsBy Clayton Campbell March 30, 2022

In December I was at the culminating event of an exciting new project that I want to bring to the attention of our readership. This past fall the Santa Fe Art Institute pioneered SFAI Works, a new social entrepreneurship incubator focused on creative thinking, business acumen, community engagement, and leadership skills. SFAI Works is unique…

One of the older, visionary yet young at heart residency centers this world has to offer is the ufaFabrik International Culture Centre in Berlin

ThoughtsBy Clayton Campbell March 30, 2022

One of the older, visionary yet young at heart residency centers this world has to offer is the ufaFabrik International Culture Centre in Berlin. Campbell Consultants Group affiliate Rudolf Bruenger is one of the Managers of ufaFabrik, and explains how it promotes the commitment to culture through exchange and education. In its mission, they combine…

Clayton Campbell- Letting the Creative Practice Inform the Design of Cultural Exchange and Artist Residency Programming

ThoughtsBy Clayton Campbell March 30, 2022

(An excerpt from a white paper presented at the 2012 Res Artist Conference in Tokyo for the panel New Strategies for Creative Platforms and updated this July) When we are designing an artist residency program with a creative organization and with artists and creators, we talk about how to organize a creative residency by looking…

Ishiuchi Miyako’s Hiroshima Photographs at the Getty Museum Present a Different Entry Point for Experiencing the Inexpressible Than a Western Mind Might

ArchiveBy Clayton Campbell March 30, 2022

Many artists have made the pilgrimage to Hiroshima and produced art works from a profound need to atone and understand how one of the greatest crimes of the second world war could have happened. To honor the dead, to pay testament to the terrible loss, to advocate for the abolition of nuclear arms, to ask…

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