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Mark Nelson

How can art-making impact social and political issues?

The projects I have created for the last 22 years are the direct result of having been raised overseas as a resident guest in other people's lands. These experiences gave me priceless insight into culture, class division, politics, and passion. As a kid I knew I would make the arts a career. It is through the mentoring and nurture of friends overseas that I came to understand the importance of art as a vehicle for social change, particularly as a voice in a culture so wasteful of resources and preoccupied with decadence.
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