Painting
Sentiments in South Korean Art Speak to the World
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. Jean Dubuffet (1983) As is apparent through the global rise of Korean Pop, BBQ and dramas, South Korea is a mass producer of addictive consumable media. As more […]
TCKs Find Themselves through Art
Third Culture Kids (TCKs) Grace Kim and Susan Mousakhani use their art to highlight their globally mobile lifestyles while growing up. Understanding the world Kim spent more time living nomadically throughout her life than she ever spent in her passport […]
Nneka Jones, a Social Activist and Diverse Artist
There is the artwork. The story behind the artwork and the story that the artwork tells. Nneka Jones Art from culture Nneka Jones satisfies her “cravings to create” by using art to mimic “our human experiences of everyday life with […]
TCK Life is a Great, Big…Canvas (Part 1 of 3)
What defines a TCK? Lynnie Wright was born in Liberia and moved to the United States in 8th grade. The cultures were vastly different. “I don’t even know how to explain it,” said Wright, a Third Culture Kid (TCK) at […]
Global Nomad Christine Rasmussen: Painter of the In-between
Global Nomad artist Christine Rasmussen’s highly mobile upbringing shows in her paintings. She illustrates scenes that feel familiar but foreign all at the same time. Her focus is on the beauty of “the in-between,” or urban areas that are usually […]
Finding Home: WHEN ART IS KINDNESS FOR THE SOUL.
Gondolas at night, Venice Italy. Story and Art by Peter Lo 2 MINUTE READ Art and Travel Growing up as a Third Culture Kid with a rich but very diverse heritage, from Scotland to China to India to Malaysia, and […]
Abstract Expressionism & How Early TCKs Changed Art History
France and Italy have been known to be influential in the art world for centuries — the former birthing avante-garde and works by Rodin, Monet and others, and the latter blessing us with pieces, such as the Mona Lisa and the David sculpture. American art didn’t gain traction or credibility until the late 1930s with the rise of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Ana Mendieta: A Champion for CCKs
Born in Havana, Cuba in November 1948, Ana Mendieta was a well-known performance artist throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. At age 12, she and her sister were forced to flee Cuba after her father joined an anti-Castro counter-revolutionary force, and the two siblings spent their first few weeks in the United States at a refugee camp in Florida until they were sent to an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa — a location with a culture very different from the life Ana knew back in Cuba. She wouldn’t reunite with her mother and brother for five years and her father for another 18.
