Welcome To Airbrush Africa
Airbrush Africa campaign is an interactive experience that builds an environment of learning, creating and inspiration. This platform provides tools and techniques for self expression through art and creativity. The vision behind this project is to develop public art opportunities that uplift the spirits of a community, while providing an outlet to discover and promote positivity and unity in Africa. By creating partnerships with community organizations, local artists, city planners, non profits, schools and youth based initiatives, Airbrush Africa takes a relevant approach of incorporating the STEM/STEAM process. This fun, interactive and engaging environment helps merge the elements of STEM/STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) while stimulating a creative experience through airbrushing.
Three major objectives:
Create: Art is a universal language for promoting peace and unity within the community. The core of this project is to create airbrush art with residents, youth and neighborhood leaders that represents unity, community, diversity and positivity. This art can be in the form of murals, wearable art, music, digital art , etc. With 30 years of airbrush experience Malcolm "Airbrush Assassin" McCrae will be leading and partnering with a team of multi-disciplinary African artists and community ambassadors to design, develop and deploy art projects that will echo local history and universal metaphors of peace & unity.
Share: Collaboration is a key to making this project a success. By working with community ambassadors, local creatives and community leaders, we help empower and activate each site. Each site will have a community gathering component to showcase and celebrate the project. This will be a gallery night, block party, and/or live event open to the public. As we create these experiences, participants will be encouraged to share their ideas, visions and thoughts on how this program impacted their life. With the use of technology in wifi and social media, the opportunity for sharing will increase to help make a long term impact.
Grow: Knowledge is the most important component to the success of the Airbrush Africa campaign. Malcolm McCrae will be teaching a workshop called “ARTepreneur”. This training will teach artists entrepreneurial skills and techniques that will help create financial sustainability. Each student will learn how to create and operate a successful creative lifestyle. This learning platform is engineered to help grow the impact of artists and their community. With workshops and creative camps, the goal is to create sacred spaces that people will use to gather, create and grow ideas.
Senegalese artist and creative partner @King Mow
Summary:
Our goal is to make a lasting impact on the communities in Senegal and all of Africa by collaborating with local artists. All the programing will be affordable and accessible for everyone, and to make a lasting and positive change in the community through art.
Our objective is to provide resources for artists, communities and youth to beautify, while investing in their neighborhood and city. In most areas due to the lack of funding, most art programs are being eliminated. Our targeted areas are lower income and/or poverty stricken neighborhoods that normally wouldn’t have the opportunities to experience these programs. We will use the Airbrush Africa project to engage, uplift and unite these areas through creativity, collaboration and community support.
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