Season 3
October 2004
On-line Resource for the Somali Community
*With Mauricio Arango & Charles Earl Love Yust*
Minnesota is home to one of the largest Somali communities in North America . This vital international presence has flourished in recent years, but is in continual need of additional resources to assist transitions into new surroundings, and better illustrate this community's substantial socio-economic contributions to the region. This bilingual web-site has been developed in order to address some of those needs through a partnership between the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota (CSCM) and the University of Minnesota , and made
possible by the generosity of the University's Council on Public Engagement (COPE). Included in this site is information beneficial to new immigrants acclimating to life in Minnesota (i.e. transportation, housing, health services, finances, etc.), an on-line presence for Somali businesses, and information on Somalia and Somalis in Minnesota.
www.somaliresource.net
Abinadi Meza is a multimedia artist based in the Twin Cities. Meza recently presented sound art in an underwater broadcast to bathers in the sea near Malmö, Sweden. His work is currently at Minnesota Center for Photography'sProjects gallery and the Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, Australia. Meza will present /Dharavi/, an animation produced for the Wounded City course taught by Alfredo Jaar.
Visit www.abinadimeza.net for more info/projects.
Nikki Schultz is an arts administrator currently working for the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. Her work, which is largely influenced by her background in theatre arts and her budding interest in puppetry, examines the production of images and its relationship to social structures.
Schultz will present her digital video, Maasailand, which was created last spring while she was a student in the /Wounded City/, a course taught by artist Alfredo Jaar.
Cheryl Wilgren Clyne is completing her degree in Architecture and Film as a B.S. Thematic ICP major. She works as a curatorial assistant in the Visual Resources Collection at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Also a union activist in AFSCME Local 3937, photographer for The Wake, videographer for The Soap Factory, /Gallery// 4/, and curator for Emerging Digerati, community is central to her work.
Wilgren Clyne will present her digital video /distribute/, also from the /Wounded/ /City/ course taught by Alfredo Jaar. Mauricio Arango and Chuck Yust will also be on hand to discuss their /Wounded City/ projects.
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