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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Children Citizenship and Governance Climate Change Culture Development Economics and Finance Education Environment Extreme poverty Family Financing for Development Habitat Human Rights Indigenous Peoples Peace and Security Science and Technology Sustainable Development Values Water Women Women/gender Equality Youth Financing for Development: Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Capacity building Education and training of women Human rights of women Indigenous women Information and communication technologies Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women Men and boys Millennium Development Goals Policy advice Research Service provision The girl child Women and health Women and poverty Women and the economy Women and the environment Women and the media Women in power and decision-making Social Development: Indigenous issues Information and Communications Technologies Poverty Social policy Youth Sustainable Development: Agriculture Capacity-building Climate change Consumption and production patterns Desertification and Drought Education Energy Finance Forests Freshwater Gender equality Health Information for decision-making and participation Integrated decision-making International cooperation for an enabling environment Land management Marine Resources Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.) Oceans and seas Partnerships Poverty Protecting and managing the natural resources Rural Development Science Sustainable Tourism Sustainable development for Africa Sustainable development in a globalizing world Sustainable development of SIDS Technology Toxic chemicals Trade and environment Waste (hazardous) Waste Management
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Spain United States of America Sweden Austria Chile Ireland Norway Germany Philippines Canada Serbia Cameroon Malawi Uganda Mexico Italy Croatia India Monaco Indonesia Nigeria Türkiye Brazil France Samoa Costa Rica Malta Czechia Guatemala
Millennium Development Goals:	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Ensure environmental sustainability
Mission statement:	Bringing the pressing environmental issues of our time into tangible art forms that inspire, ignite, and engage the public at large is our goal at ArtDialogue. It is also a process we hope will invigorate the artistic and educational community around the world, by instilling artists and students with a model for sustainable and non-hierarchal exhibition practices and pedagogy. ArtDialogue strives to create education for sustainable development that incorporates both right and left brain problem solving skills. These skills are critical in creating complex interdependent solution sets in a diverse world. With Sustainable Creativity, the world itself may be renovated to make self-sufficient modes of engaging in the creative arts that are not entirely dependent upon commercial or market economies. Our programs and projects at ArtMill (the center of ArtDialogue's activities based in the Czech Republic) help determine and recognize the potential resources and ‘culture capital’ of the artist’s contribution to our social fabric, future, and to the educational process for sustainability. Without inspiration and creativity, our chances of problem-solving for the next millennium are slim. ¿¿The image of the ancient waterwheel, the device which harnesses water into power, is an apt metaphor for future sustainable practices. Converting free-flowing water into hydro-electricity is akin to harnessing creativity into community challenges that have a value outside of the market economy. This is an affirming intent of experience and the process of inclusive community problem solving that is self-maintaining. With an ecologically sound education backing up formal creative practice, new sustainable ways of thought-like Design Theory- are incorporated into the composition, process and execution of the innovative solution sets. Our philosophy at ArtDialogue has been to encourage both right AND left brain thinking, that is, marrying the intuitive, emotive functions of our minds with the linear, structured modes. This is classic Art and Science. We believe that Creativity and Sustainability go hand in hand to make a whole being. Or work of art. Or even a sustainable model of economic and social development. ¿¿Like the water that is integral to the old mill, creative energy is vital to finding solutions to our world's problems. And arriving at sustainable solutions that engage creative possibilities and diverse perspectives is what we aim to inspire. Art Dialogue brings people and ideas together, and like the hub or wheel of the mill, mixes them up and around in a wet and fertile environment delivering them into the world in a life-sustaining form. We recognize the history of our region as a crossroads for multi-cultural overlay, and are committed to recreating that experience via cultural exchange and interaction in other parts of the world. ArtDialogue is a "think/feel-tank" in blue jeans that potentially will become a model for other experiments in sustainable education, feeding creativity into the environmental and governmental movements internationally.
Year established:	2004
Year of registration:	2004
Organizational structure:	Art Dialogue is a not-for-profit organization that integrates culture, learning, and international artistic and educational exchange. We are committed to a sustainable environment, and passing that on to every soul who crosses our threshold. Established in 2004 in Prague, the initial impulse came out of the turbulent and inspiring events in Central Europe in 1989. U.S. artist Barbara Benish, along with many artists and friends, helped organize an art exchange between Los Angeles and Prague during that time. It was the first time in nearly forty years that not only art, but also the artists, experienced one another's cultures first hand, as the totalitarian regimes were dismantled and the borders opened. Working with international educational theorist June Gorman, co-founder of the Transformative Education Forum (TEF), and Advisory Board/Council President of Art Dialogue, new educational paradigms are currently being developed and applied both regionally and globally. Art Dialogue's programs include international summer study abroad for university and high school students in sustainable creativity and education. We foster professional artists by producing and organizing international exhibitions, and by hosting a youth-oriented exploration of creativity, fun, and educational connections of art and science at the various Art Mill programs. With exhibition space at ArtMill as well as Galerie Califia at the zámek (chateau) Horaždovice, Art Dialogue is able to offer artists of all ages a place to create, exhibit, and learn. Up to five scholarships are provided for children each summer, and four international Artist-in-Residence positions are available during the warm months. We are funded by tuition, donations, and grants.
Number and type of members:	Art Dialogue has 4 members, with an Advisory Council/Board of 8 active members. The Council consists of experts in the fields of Education, Art, NGO's for Sustainable Development, Political Science and Ethnic Studies, and International Law. Our staff consists of 4 full time employees, with the international summer faculty swelling to 20 individuals during ArtMill's seasonal programs.
Funding structure:	Fees for education and training services Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants
Funding structure other:	donations

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