GAP Is a membership based international collaborative of Mixed-media Artists whose active participants number 53 members working in 12 countries, depending on the project. Having roots initially in web based activity beginning in 2012 (post card and correspondence art projects such as KNEE(jerk) Fragmentation Project).
GLOBAL ART PROJECT has generated numerous workshops, exhibitions and collaborative studio experiences in Venice, Lecce and Treviso Italy, Mazatlan, Mexico, Dakar, Senegal, Ghent, Belgium, The Netherlands, North Carolina, New York, Minneapolis, MN, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Benicia, Sausalito and Novato, California. Our work reflects individual, personal and global concerns by virtue of intention. We are creating and exhibiting work that allows freedom of expression given this unique format to communicate beyond language and culture with diverse artists from all over the world while remaining open to the opportunities of the moment accessed through this circumstance in settings allowing interaction not only with each other but local arts communities as well.
We are linked by activity in mixed-media art practice, photography, video and performance arts which may be reduced to working with the materials at hand and has antecedents in collage, assemblage, found-object and related practice. Our affinity with Fluxus, Cobra, and the Dada Art Movement is a recognition of the importance of being attuned to the collaborative future.
https://www.facebook.com/globalartproject2020/
https://globartproject.wixsite.com/globalartproject-art
Gallery and Studio, an online art based magazine, has done a Profile on Carl Heyward, the leader of Global Art Project. Please check it out here:
https://www.galleryand.studio/2019/12/11/carl-heyward-a-global-gaze/?fbclid=IwAR3FpxHiHjj8Dptq2yDLit0MNAgmI5EnrXDE9Sb9pOEF9Rw7uffyWd8TeH0
And if you are a generous person and want to be part of something great, go to our GoFundme campaign and make a donation to help pay for the costs of traveling this important and timely exhibition. CrossingBorders! What Borders are you willing to Cross? Thank you for your support.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/1pe2ufji2o
What is KNEE(jerk) you ask? It has a history: Starting in 2012, a one-for-one exchange of art works between 500
international artists that produced 9,000, 5 x7 inch
pieces with examples of the 3,000 archived artifacts
being prepared for exhibition. Learn more here: https://globartproject.wixsite.com/globalartproject-art