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American Art Expert Offers helping Hand
19th August 2010
A leading art academic from the United States met with the Suffolk Lenadoon Interface Group (SLIG) and the Stewartstown Road Regeneration Project (SRRP) to explore how art projects can assist regeneration and enhance cross-community cooperation.
Professor Tom Anderson, who holds the Chair of Art Education at Florida State Univeristy (FSU) met SLIG/SRRP on Thursday 1 July. Artwork, regeneration, establishing international links and the prospect of spearheading a keynote arts project for the Stewartstown Road building, where both organisations are based, were discussed. Professor Anderson, who organises an annual event at FSU on Art and Design and Social Justice, was also briefed by representatives of the Suffolk and Lenadoon Fora and given guided tours of both areas.
An authority on political art, Professor Anderson was keen to see at first hand some of Belfast’s famed murals. The art academic is a founding member of Kids’ Guernica International, which facilitates the painting of portable peace murals by children and young people from around the world.
BBC’s Radio Ulster’s, Arts Extra, conducted an in-studio interview with Professor Anderson, Renee Crawford and Jean Brown of SLIG’s Management Committee, which went out at 6.30 that evening.