![Dallas public art project Seventeen Hundred Seeds. Photo credit: Robert Hamilton.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119071112im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/318188_3669001557571_1936682526_n-150x150.jpg)
Seventeen Hundred Seeds: Cultivating Community As Art
This past Saturday independent curator Cynthia Mulcahy and artist Robert Hamilton had a public picnic and reception to celebrate the planting and subsequent bloom of seventeen hundred Aztec Gold sunflower seeds in a vacant, 1.6 acre lot in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. Since last March Mulcahy, Hamilton, a hardworking crew of 8, [...]
![Rania Matar Barbie Girl, Beirut 2006. Haret Hreik Beirut. The photographer arrived in Beirut to visit family days before the bombing of Lebanon by Israel started in 2006. Courtesy Rania Matar](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119071112im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/XXI4-150x150.jpg)
XXI: Conflicts in a New Century: Images of a First Decade Fraught with Violence
The other day I heard a montage of sound bites on NPR of the recent uprisings in the Middle East. The momentary inundation of frantic sounds from Libya, Syria, Egypt and all those other conflicted places, and the journalists voices that steadily and resolutely fed the world the information coming out of them, suddenly made me keenly aware [...]