FIGMENT Oakland
October 24, 2015
FIGMENT Oakland is a free, inclusive, participatory arts event held in multiple cities and drawing tens of thousands of participants each year. FIGMENT's mission is to offer free, family-friendly and participatory art to entire communities.
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FIGMENT is a forum for the creation and display of participatory and interactive art by emerging artists across disciplines. FIGMENT began in July 2007 as a free, one-day participatory arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor with over 2,600 participants. Since then, FIGMENT has grown significantly each year in number of projects, duration, participants, volunteers, fundraising capability, exhibitions, locations, overall level of commitment and participation, and public support.
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PEOPLE OF FIGMENT: Emmie Katz
- November 04, 2015
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Irene Malatesta
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Welcome to FIGMENT people, a series of stories about the people behind FIGMENT Oakland! We’ll meet some people on the core event team, artists and volunteers. Want to hear about a specific FIGMENT team member or volunteer? Email us and tell us who you’d like to see: oakland@figmentproject.org FIGMENT person: Emmie Katz Emmie Katz is the 2015 Curatorial Director for FIGMENT Oakland. Her role has her communicating with our dozens of artists, managing the growing volunteer curatorial team, assisting with art placement and event logistics, and doing individual artist outreach. Her longtime roots in the local community give...
PEOPLE OF FIGMENT: Josh Silverman
- November 04, 2015
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Irene Malatesta
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Welcome to FIGMENT people, a series of stories about the people behind FIGMENT Oakland! We’ll meet some people on the core event team, artists and volunteers. Want to hear about a specific FIGMENT team member or volunteer? Email us and tell us who you’d like to see: oakland@figmentproject.org FIGMENT person: Josh Silverman Josh Silverman is a longtime rockstar volunteer and contributing artist to FIGMENT. He’s helped out with FIGMENT NYC over the years with promotion, labor and logistics. He also produced the popular Kissing Booth installation in 2013. Now a...
PEOPLE OF FIGMENT: Audrey Boguchwal
- November 03, 2015
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Marissa Clark
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Welcome to FIGMENT people, a series of stories about the people behind FIGMENT Oakland! We’ll meet some people on the core event team, artists and volunteers. Want to hear about a specific FIGMENT team member or volunteer? Email us and tell us who you’d like to see: oakland@figmentproject.org FIGMENT person: Audrey Boguchwal An oldie but goody, Audrey surveying the terrain at FIGMENT NYC 2009. Yes, that’s a cooler. Audrey is a member of the communications team for FIGMENT Oakland 2015. Her role is to tell everyone about FIGMENT,...