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Teaching with Maps
Art21 Educators alumnus Emily Relf inspires her students to consider the global community through artists who use maps, geography, and cartography.
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Memory at the Seams: Doris Salcedo’s Sumando Ausencias
In Doris Salcedo’s public-art installation “Sumando Ausencias,” thousands of volunteers blanketed Bolívar Square with cloth containing the names of the victims of Colombia’s decades-long conflict.
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