One Million Bones is a large-scale social arts practice working to raise awareness of genocides, atrocities and human right abuses occurring in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burma. Its work combines artist-led, community hands-on art making, education and a plan to install 1,000,000 hand-made clay bones on the National Mall in Washington DC, in the spring of 2013, creating a symbolic mass grave and a site of consciousness-raising and action. For more information, visit www.onemillionbones.org.
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One Million Bones
Patterned after NPN's model performing arts program, the Visual Artists Network was launched in 2007 as a pilot, and in 2009 the program was formally established through the induction of the VAN Partners, fifteen leading contemporary arts organizations from across the United States.
The boundaries between the performing and visual arts are more than blurred: "Performance art" on the stage and "installations" in a gallery. Using the residency model of a touring performing artist, VAN is a way for the visual artist to engage in community.