TransCultural Exchange links “together artists all over the world in a spirit of international harmony and exchange.”
– UNESCO’s former Director-General Kōichirō Matsuura
Inclusivity. Diversity. These are more than just words to us. They are who we are: TransCultural Exchange. For more than thirty years, our mission has been to foster a greater understanding of world cultures through large-scale global art projects, cultural exchanges and educational programming — most notably, our International Conferences on Opportunities in the Arts and, more recently, with the launch of TCE TV. Each month TCE TV looks at opportunities, resources and important developments for artists down the block, across the nation and around the world.
TransCultural Exchange is pleased to announce that in February 2023, we received two new grants: A Cultural Sector Recovery Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a general operating grant from the Boston Cultural Council and Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture. We extend our sincere thanks to the Massachusetts Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development for securing these funds to make this historic investment in the cultural sector possible. We are equally grateful to the Mass Cultural Council, Boston Cultural Council, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and all of you for your continued interest and support.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are based in Boston Massachusetts on Massachusett land, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
The photos that make up the composite photo above are taken from TransCultural Exchange’s global project, ‘Here, There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art of the Future.’ From upper left to lower right are the ‘Jones and Roa Expedition,’ Darron Jones (USA) and Ryan Roa (USA/Scotland); ‘The Grafting Parlor,’ Lucy Hg (USA), Kelly Jaclynn Andres (Canada), Annti Tenetz (Finland), Saoirse Higgins (Northern Ireland) and Nuit Bar-Shai (USA/Israel); ‘CROSSROADS: Nomadic Knowledge & Art Strategies,’ a collaboration between Germany’s Kunstverein slap (social land art project) and Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek Art Center, organized by curators Eugenia Gortchakova and Shaarbek Amankule; ‘A Prayer for Sakartvelo,’ Roger Colombik (USA) and Sergiu Lupse (Romania); ‘one/another,’ Deborah Wing-Sproul (USA) and Ling Wen Tsai (Taiwan); ‘Aged in China,’ Mary Hamil working with Chinese communities in Beijing and New York (Photo Credit: Seth Bernstein, Eidetic Productions); ‘Mind Bridge,’ Mary Robinson (Columbia/USA) and Ha Ran Kim (South Korea); ‘Plague – Present, Past and Future,’ produced by J&W management consulting, Patricia Jacomella (Switzerland), Maria Walther (Switzerland), Al Fadhil (Iraq), Alessandro Vicario (Italy) and Stefano Donati, Luisa Figini, Andrea Gabutti, Alex Leuzinger, Antonio and Lüönd, MFT, Gianluca Monnier, Pascal Murer and Andrée Tavares (Switzerland); ‘addingPOSITIVITY,’ Ann McDonald (USA) and Sarrena Sernsukskul (Thailand); ‘We are all Related,’ Ruby Barnes and (USA) Roland Idaczyk (New Zealand); ‘mother/memory,’ Ilgim Veryeri-Alaca (Turkey), Ann Coddington Rast (USA) and Tanja Softic (USA/Bosnia and Herzegovina); ‘Project Software,’ Noell EL Farol (Philippines), Ali Mahmeed (Bahrian); Ravinder Bhardwaj (India); Seido Toshiyuki (Japan) and Sang Heong Lee (South Korea), photo credit: Mervy C. Pueblo-Farol.