Lifting up Change-Makers and Creatives Who Want to Make Social Waves With Art November 2020 - February 2021
Lift.
Lift. Mentorship
Lift. is a free global mentorship program for community / socially engaged emerging artists and cultural change-makers. Being an arts + cultural change-maker can be one of the most profoundly amazing creative paths – but we know it can also be exhausting, challenging and lonely breaking boundaries. This is an opportunity to connect with like-minded souls, extend your practice, and formulate ideas that have resonance.
We believe that art is a powerful force for positive change. We are an artist collective and cultural hub that acts, disrupts, and transforms in unexpected places and ways. We want to share these skills with those who want to make an impact, using art as a vehicle for positive change in their community.
2 x Micro Galleries International Collective artists have selected 2 x mentees to lift. to somewhere new.
Our dedicated, experienced and dynamic artists waiting to lift. someone up through knowledge-sharing, encouragement, and passing on hard-earned skills.
Ben Taranto
Language: English
Ben is a sculpture and installation artist who works with minimalism, conceptual art and land art/earth works.
Hi, I'm Natalie Alexandrova and I am a part of the new generation. I focus my creative energy in performance art, taking inspiration from alternative theatre, independent cinema and music. I am from Sofia, Bulgaria where I was a part of an alternative theater company and moved to Barcelona to study contemporary dance and art in Institut del Teatre (class of 2020). My creative journey has taken me to London, where I currently live. I believe in art as a vehicle to transform our society and I take special interest in environmental issues and helping our Mama Earth.
Marx Fidel, a visual artist based in Manila, Philippines, aims to deliver seemingly small, yet extra-ordinary stories through his narrative-driven illustrations, photographs, and other works of art.
Socio-politically charged and driven, he is also an artist-activist who constantly tries to challenge his environment's current social and political status quo through his editorial works, exposing and commenting on the many issues his countrymen and fellow colleagues are dangerously facing.
Also, his favorite catchphrase is "mula sa kalawakan" literally translated to "from space", because, like anything from space, he believes remarkable stories can come from anywhere.