Mel Chin: "Paydirt" | Art21 "Exclusive"
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Uploaded by art21org on Jun 19, 2008
Episode #016: Mel Chin describes the origins and motivations behind the nationwide art project Paydirt in a keynote address to the 2008 National Art Education Association Convention, and visits multiple sites in New Orleans adversely affected by both Hurricane Katrina and lead contamination in the soil.
The high lead content of soil in New Orleans — among the worst in the country — was exacerbated by the havoc wreaked by the hurricane in 2005. Discovering that "the disaster was in the soil before the disaster," Chin felt he had to do something about it as an artist. Speaking before a crowd of thousands of art educators from across the country, Chin recounts, "I remember standing in the ruins of the Ninth Ward and realizing as a creative individual that I felt hopeless and inadequate. And I was flooded by this terrible insecurity that being an artist was not enough to deal with the tragedy that was before me." Thus Paydirt, and its sister initiative, the Fundred Dollar Bill Project was born.
Learn more about Mel Chin: http://www.art21.org/artists/mel-chin
VIDEO | Producer: Larissa Nikola-Lisa & Kelly Shindler. Camera: Larissa Nikola-Lisa. Sound: Wesley Swinnen. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Larissa Nikola-Lisa.
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Powerful message with powerful motivations. Wow.
chama111 2 years ago
it's good to be political
lyhome 3 years ago
Bless his Heart. I hope his art project helps those children find homes and a decent life again, LOL.
blackberryjuice1 3 years ago