Walk Here opens The Tile Project with the DIG IN Spring Festival
June 3, 2:00, Wallace Emerson Park, 1260 Dufferin Street, Toronto

The Tile Project
40 nations + 22 sites + tiles by over 100 international artists = 1 goal: to unite the world.

The Tile Project partners with Walk Here’s Constellation Project

Constellation
1 city + 1 walking system + 16 local artists = an effort to vitalize, green and connect local neighbourhoods while fostering engaged communities, new public art, public space and green space.
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The Tile Project
On June 3rd, Walk Here! dedicates a new public art work at Toronto’s Wallace Emerson Park as part of TransCultural Exchange’s The Tile Project, Destination: The World. Sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)*, The Tile Project culminates in 22 new public art works installed across the world: in New York, Berlin, Sarajevo, Seoul, and, now, Toronto. Each installation is designed by local artists and includes a set of tiles donated by more than 100 international artists. Thus, at each site, the tiles remain the same, but take on a new identity that underscores the importance of context in understanding works of art.

The composite works unite the world in ways that are respectful, tolerant and understanding of the global communities’ differences and commonalities. Responding to an installationof the project in his city, Encarnación Moya Nieto, the Mayor of Chinchón, Spain states, “In the midst of the harsh, conflictive and overwhelming international scene, that so many artists are capable of coming together to develop this project and place it within the public’s reach, encourages hope for peace, enforces our aspiration for progress and helps us have confidence in humanity.”

The Tile project partners with Walk Here/Constellation.

Walk Here: Constellation
This community and public artwork helps vitalize, green and connect Toronto West End neighbourhoods by creating an art-embedded walking system throughout the community that pull it together as a place and reconnects the area to the city at large. The walkway creates new public art, public space and green space. The Constellation Project includes local artists – Shelley Adler, Lois Andison, Blue Republic, Vera Frenkel, Eldon Garnet, Diane Lingenfelter, Dyan Marie, John McKinnon, Larry Middlestadt, Margaret Priest, Ants Reigo, Tony Scherman, Snaige Sileika, Dionne Simpson, Monica Tap, Guy Walter – each contributed a drawing recreated as a bronze relief sculpture. The drawings now seed the surface of the Walk Here walkway. Walkway users can create their own print edition by covering the cast in paper and rubbing a pencil over the surface.

The work encourages walking as a way to better health, body and mind and is a catalyst to notice, engage and celebrate the local. Over time, the intention is to expand the walkway into other sites with an ever-enlarging network of walking paths and circle of participating artists.

More About Walk Here: Constellation
Walk Here is an artist project by Dyan Marie with DIG IN: Dupont Improvement Group and the Dupont / Bloor West communities in Toronto. www.digin.ca www.walkhere.org www.dyanmarie.com. Appreciation to the following for Walk Here sponsorship: Ontario Works, The Canada Council for the Arts: Artist in the Community, Ontario Arts Council: Artists in the Community, City of Toronto Culture Department with support from DIG IN: Dupont Improvement Group, Christie Ossington Neighbourhood Centre, City of Toronto Councillor Adam Giambrone, Toronto Parks & Recreation, Dovercourt Public School, St. Luigi School, St. Sebastian School, Dupont / Dyan Marie Projects, Member of Parliament Mario Silva, The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Tino DeCastro, Wallace Emerson Community Center, Guy Walter, Bruce Ward, local artists, trades-people and residents.

More About TransCultural Exchange: The Tile Project
As a group, the artists of TransCultural Exchange have exhibited their work at many international galleries, museums, and other venues, including Paris’ Palais de Tokyo, the London Biennale, New York City’s Trans Hudson Gallery, The Chicago Cultural Center, Tokyo’s radio:on:studio, Taipei’s Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Berlin’s Bar of the Museum of Modern Art, and the Fine Arts Museum of Ho Chi Minh City. visit:www.transculturalexchange.org/tileproject 
call: 888.464.4086 
email: tce@transculturalexchange.org *Additional supporters of TransCultural Exchange’s The Tile Project include the Asian Cultural Council’s Starr Foundation, the Romanian Cultural Institute, Hewlett Packard, the Israeli Embassy’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Core Computer Group, The Puffin Foundation, the Bosnian-American Association, MIT’s Office for the Arts, Blue Space Contemporary Art Center (Ho Chi Minh City), JetBlue Airways, U.S. Department of State’s Arts and Embassies Program, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston and New York, Camacho Arquitectos, S.L., Aeromexico, Boston College, Northeastern University, McDougal Littell, Harvard University, Globalbrands, the Open Society Institute, Boston Schoolyard Initiative, Massachusetts Cultural Council , Somerville Arts Council , Palmer & Dodge, LLP , Chris Patusky, Mira Bartok, Betsy Carpenter, Sandi Parker, Lisa Cherkasky, Carol van Zandt, Jerry Scally, Tawny Ratner, Kathryn Kunkel, Helen Solomon, McDougal Littell, and Smart Meeting Design.

Artist participating in the Tile Project: www.transculturalexchange.org/tileproject

Project by Mary Sherman, Boston, MA, USA Co-Organizers

Caroline Anderson, Chicago, IL, USA
Kim Sillen Gledhill, New York, NY USA Assistants

Virginia Ilg
Dave Knudsen Contact Artists (TCE’s representatives in the chosen world sites for the
project). AZERBAIJAN: Chingiz Babaev BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: Cazim Hadzimejlic and Meliha Teparic in collaboration with Nermina Zildzo
FINLAND: Pirjo Heino FRANCE: Ralph Brancaccio Leo Hobaica
GERMANY: Jannis Markopoulos 
INDIA: Bharati Kapadia 
ISRAEL: Karmela Berg MEXICO: Carlos Rodal 
NEW ZEALAND: Roland Idaczyk THE PHILIPPINES: Claro Ramirez ROMANIA: Cris Ciobanu SOUTH AFRICA: Juliet Armstrong 
SOUTH KOREA: Sunghoon Yang SPAIN: Oscar Villegas Paez
TAIWAN: Pan Ping-yu TURKEY: Gulay AlpayUNITED STATES: Caroline Anderson, Ruby Barnes, Ginny Sykes (IL), Mary Sherman (MA, Washington DC) 
Kim Gledhill (NY) 
VIETNAM: Duyen Nguyen Blue Space Contemporary Arts Center Participating Artists

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: Alma Suljevic Marko Pasalic, Samir Biscevic
BELGIUM: Yannick Franck BRAZIL: Malvina Sammarone CANADA: Remigio Valdes de Hoyos 
CHILE: Alejandro and Moira Sina CHINA: Moni Oolyonghai, Wang Qingzhen, Xiao Ruixin
CUBA: Magda Compos 
CZECH REPUBLIC: Anna Obrova
DENMARK: Alisa Clausen 
ENGLAND: Susan Rowe Harrison Alison Smart FINLAND: Irja Rantala
FRANCE: Doris Kloster
GERMANY: Karola Teschler, Dorothea Fleiss, Markus Keibel, Tevahu, Karla Sachse
GREECE: Dimitris Ameladiotis 
HONG KONG: Jeffrey du Vallier d’Aragon Aranita
HUNGARY: Maria Fekete, Barkos Beáta
INDIA: Nina Sabnani, Jaishri Karani, Dilip Ranade, Parul Pattini, Himanshu Shetty, Amit Romani, Shikha Barman 
ISRAEL: Neta Dor (Lemelshtrich)
ITALY: Elena Mastracci, Youliana Manoleva
JAPAN: Zero Higashida and Megumi Naitoh
KAZAKHSTAN: Assel Alpysbayeva
LEBANON: Zeina Barakeh 
MALTA: Norbert Francis Attard 
MEXICO: Elizabeth Ross , Carmen Gimenez-Cacho, Spolartus, Diciembre Aguilar, Abel Ramirez Aguilar, Carlos Pez 
NEW ZEALAND: Norbert Hausberg, Aimee McLeod
NORWAY: Jet Pas
PERU: Jose Luis Yamunaque
PHILIPPINES: Noel El Farol, Eng Chang, Clara Gallardo, Eric Zamuco
POLAND: Agnieszka Boron 
PORTUGAL: José de Guimarães 
ROMANIA: Nicolae Suciu
SOUTH AFRICA: Vuli Nyoni, Hwan Cheon Yang, Ian Calder, Michelle Coetzee, Bronwen Heath, Kirsten Nieser 
SOUTH KOREA: Jhee Hyong Ahn
SPAIN: Francisco Ariza, Chu Lily, Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Kristoffer Ardeña
SWEDEN: Urban Ramstedt
SWITZERLAND: J & W Management Consulting
SYRIA: Nur Aida Abdul Rahim, Saeed Abdlkarim Arida (Artist Collaborative) TAIWAN: Howard Chen, Yan Chung-shien, Liu Si-Don, Lien Si-Yi, Xu Zri-Shien, Wu Dar-Kuen, Chen Win-Yin, Lien Si-Wei, Chen Chien-Jnng, Huang Lan-ya, Lee Yi-chun, Chen Shiau-Peng, Yeh Yi-Li 
TURKEY: Özlem Kalkan Erenus 
UNITED STATES:
Arkansas: Ed Calhoun
California: Christopher Scorfina, Janett Peace, Cara Franson
Connecticut: Carnright Youngberg
Georgia: Ted Cantrell 
Hawaii: Andrew Fulenwider 
Illinois: Leonard Lehrer, Sabra Schmudde and Travis Alber (collaborative team), Jin Soo Kim, Karen Ami Maryland: Ruth Pettus, Diane Kuthy
Massachusetts: Steven Aishman, Roger Boyce, Rick Brown, Laura Brown, Betty Lo Cualio, Emily Ford, Tom Gothers, Peter Houk, Sarah Hutt, Janet Kawada, Anne Lilly, Janna Longacre, Virginia Mahoney, Denise Marika, Francisco Mendes-Dias, Candy Nartonis, The Nexus Collaborative, Sasha Reibstein, Alan Rhodes, Ben Ryterband, Joan Schwartz, Marcia Sewall, Keri Straka, David Thomas, Joe Upham, Chris Watts , Ann Wessmann, Ean White, Jason White, , Sarabeth Zurit 
The MIT Glass Collaborative: David Cheng, Niels Cosman, Emily Ford, Abby Gitlitz, Stephanie Hartman, Michelle McGuire and Erika Schutte, Ellen Schon, Mary Hughes, Peter Lindenmuth, Thaddeaus Beal
Minnesota: Lori Greene
New Jersey: Victoria Hanks
New York: Rania Jawad, Enid Braun, Hans Gransjean, Sarah Price, Marjorie Morrow, Jihee Choi
North Carolina: Lynn Andrus
Oklahoma: Shan Goshorn Washington, DC: Francie Hester VIETNAM: Tinh Xuan Do, Dung Anh Mai, Hong Son Nguyen

Artist participating in the Walk Here: Constellation: www.walkhere.org

Project by Dyan Marie with DIG IN and Toronto’s Dupont/Bloor West Community

Participating Artist
Shelley Adler, sadler@ca.inter.net
Lois Andison, lois_andison@rogers.com
Blue Republic, finearts@rogers.com
Vera Frenkel, www.verafrenkel.com
Eldon Garnet, connect@eldongarnet.com, www.eldongarnet.com
Diane Lingenfelter, finearts@rogers.com www.dianelingenfelter.com
Dyan Marie, dyan@dyanmarie.com, www.dyanmarie.com
John McKinnon, mckinnon@kos.net
Larry Middlestadt, finearts@rogers.com www.larrymiddlestadt.com
Margaret Priest, margaretpriest@sympatico.ca, www.margaretpriest.com
Ants Reigo, studio8graphics@on.aibn.com
Tony Scherman, info@tonyscherman.com www.tonyscherman.com
Snaige Sileika, ssileika@rca.on.ca
Dionne Simpson, d_rtist@sympatico.ca
Monica Tap, mtap@sympatico.ca www.monicatap.com
Guy Walter, www.urbansurface.com, guy@urbansurface.ca

DYAN MARIE PROJECTS: 1444 Dupont St. Unit 31 Toronto ON Canada M6P 4H3
416.539.8129 416.536.4017 projects@dyanmarie.com www.dyanmarieprojects.com

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Walk Here Report and Notice of Appreciation to participants

The Walk Here, Tile Project opened during the DIG IN festival Saturday, June 3, 2006 with it’s installation at Wallace Emerson Park, Toronto, 100 tiles by 100 artists from 40 nations installed in partnership with the Constellation Project with 16 local artists.

Last year’s 2005 DIG IN festival brought out 400 people despite little promotional material and a hosting location at the hidden west end of the Park. This year we had great promotion; an amazing cast of dedicated help and wonderful events. CBC TV did an excellent story about the Tile Project with lots of images and advised viewers that we were the place to spend the Saturday. The local community paper gave us the front page; we were announced on list serves far and wide. Our concerns were about being swamped but knew we could manage the 1500 people we planned for.

And then it rained – no poured – non-stop, all day.

We should be sorry to say that we were rained out except that it was one of the best days in recent memory. The 150 or so people that braved the rain had a great time. And what a wonderful group of people they were.

Mayor David Miller came and walked Walk Here (in the pouring rain) as well as wrote a letter of congratulations saying, “I applaud the many talented artists who contributed to Constellation and Tile Project – this initiative generates a permanent record of creative expression and demonstrates how local neighbourhoods can reach out and connect with like-minds in an effort to foster a sense of community spirit”.

Opening comments were generously provided by Alexandra Montgomery, Director of The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Dynamic Councillor Adam Giambrone, a steadfast and major help who has followed our efforts step-by-step, remarked that Walk Here was important to Ward 18 and said that he will continue to actively support it’s future development. Mario Silva, Member of Parliament, extended his good will and we remember that, as past Ward 18 Councilor in 2002, he supported DIG IN from the beginning. Tony Ruprecht, Member of Provincial Parliament commented, “This multi-national effort wonderfully reflects our multi-cultural local community – we see ourselves reflected in the Tile Project”. Maria Amelia Paiva, Consul General of Portugal stepped forward and talked about the important Portuguese artist José de Guimarães who contributed a tile featuring his trade-mark imagery referencing Portugal. Huynh Nga, flew in from Vietnam where she has installed the Tile Project in her Blue Space Contemporary Arts Center. Mary Sherman, the artist that developed the Tile project and is installing it in 22 countries, came up from Boston via Taiwan where she had been over-seeing the printing of the Tile Project catalogue. The sample she had in hand hot off the press included the installation at Wallace Emerson.

The DIG IN: Dupont Improvement Group members that had worked so hard and long to organize the day and have already started to think about next year’s more sunny festival. Many thanks to those directly involved with the Tile Project. Their unending generous spirit and good-will was essential in making it a success, especially Rebecca Peirson, Festival Director, Ann Homan DIG IN Chairperson, Theresa Boyle photographer at large and organizer, Bruce Ward for installation and everything else and Fred Knittel for saving us with a reception tarp, Michael Monastyrskyj for his excellent writing campaign, Richard Mongiat for installation help, Kevin Beaulieu for always being helpful, Idalina DaSilva for advice, Tino DeCastro for his confidence and installation approval and assistance. Thanks most importantly to all the artists that made this possible. In doing so they have helped tie this community together along a new path of engagement. Many others were involved with pulling the DIG IN Festival together and appreciation to them will be listed on the DIG IN website at www.digin.ca

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THE CATALOG: tce@transculturalexchange.org

100 beautiful, international postcards, housed in an elegant box, make up this stunning catalog. Documenting TransCultural Exchange’s inspiring project for which over 100 artists united the world with tiles, this catalog for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) sponsored The Tile Project, Destination: The World can be kept intact or sent across the globe as handsome stationery.

In both instances, the catalog reflects the collective goal of the 100
Tile Project artists. These artists, from over 40 countries, donated more
than 2000 tiles to 22 world sites to create 22 new, site specific
permanent art works as symbols of international goodwill. Their resulting
multicultural structures now dot the world landscape from Taipei to
Toronto, Boston to Bombay and 18 other sites in between.

Included in the catalog are gorgeous 6” x 6” postcard reproductions of
each artist’s tile along with his or her biography, cultural notations and
space for correspondence on the reverse.

Also gathered together in an accompanying pamphlet are essays by Harvard
Professor Nolan Bowie, MIT Professor Alex Slocum and TransCultural
Exchange’s director Mary Sherman, commenting on the project’s ideals,
art’s role in our increasing global society and the importance of context
in understanding a work of art.

Affordably priced, this limited edition catalog is a tribute to an
extraordinary group of artists’ efforts and their remarkable monuments of
global cooperation. READY FOR ORDERING JUNE 2006.

HOW TO ORDER A CATALOG - USA BUYERS

To order a catalog, please send $24.95 + $5.00 (shipping and handling) for
a total of $29.95 (per catalog) to:

TransCultural Exchange, 516 E. 2nd Street, Suite 30, Boston, MA 02127

Or, if you prefer, you can pay the $29.95/per catalog through
TransCultural Exchange’s secure Pal Pay account. Simply press the “add to cart” button, below:
order

HOW TO ORDER A CATALOG - INTERNATIONAL BUYERS

To order a catalog, please send $24.95 + $10.00 (shipping and handling) for
a total of $34.95 (per catalog) to:

TransCultural Exchange, 516 E. 2nd Street, Suite 30, Boston, MA 02127

Or, if you prefer, you can pay the $34.95/per catalog through
TransCultural Exchange’s secure Pal Pay account at www.transculturalexchange.org/tileproject/catalog_2.htm
Simply press the “add to cart” button,

*TransCultural Exchange is a 501(c)3 organization. All donations are
tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

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