GALLERY

Picture gallery coming soon!

VISUAL ARTS
The visual arts are beautiful, wondrous, mysterious and provocative works of expression, and when utilized as educational tools for diversity the results are magical. TYIM utilizes the visual arts, which include; drawing, painting, printing, sculpture, photography, installations and multi media in various educational venues and locations.

TYIM has held shows and exhibitions throughout the bay area. TYIM has held such events in schools, universities, corporations, community centers, and established art galleries. The art work is used in either group shows or as individual pieces, depending on the venue and location. The art is usually combined with a training or speaking engagement designed to touch on the particular diversity issue being discussed. This is generally facilitated with a trained diversity educator from TYIM.

How a particular topic or theme for a show or exhibition is established is done in basically two ways:

• For art galleries and organizations: a proposal, curator statement and art slides are submitted for review.
• For corporations and educational institutions: meetings are set up with a contact person, be it a supervisor, principal, teacher, etc., and the programs TYIM offers are discussed in detail as well as a needs assessment given by the client. All this goes into the design of the diversity education program and art exhibit which TYIM and the client feel would be appropriate to meet the particular corporations and or educational institutions needs.

In some cases, particular locations have space constraints and unsuitable walls for hanging. In such cases TYIM will come in and create a gallery space by providing proper materials and specialized portable walls, isles and or podiums designed specifically for the hanging or placing of art. TYIM feels diversity education and the arts are too important to allow walls to stop us. TYIM’s objective is to remove as many obstacles as possible which may keep the community from being able to be educated.

Art and the shows and exhibits TYIM creates are specific and unique to each client and their diversity educational needs. TYIM feels the personal touch is the best touch and in some cases if the client can’t come to us, we bring the art and diversity education to them. Its real people, real emotions, real education and real art, that’s what diversity arts education is all about.

PERFORMING ARTS
Performing arts are a highly energized and connective art form. Unlike the visual arts, which in most cases creates a thoughtfully quiet, internalized reaction, the performance arts can be emotionally charged, loud and in your face, creating out bursts of laughter, sobs and anger. Both art forms, visual and performance, are very powerful communicators and tools for evoking emotional responses. One noticeable difference between performing and visual arts is that the visual art form sometimes takes a moment or even hours of analysis before psychologically creating an emotional response. But with performing arts the effects can be an immediate, explosive event psychologically and physically for its viewers and participants. Which one has the longer lasting and more potent effects between visual or performance arts can certainly be debated. What TYIM has done is cut out the debate and combined the two disciplines creating an emotional impact which is doubled in its potency. Coupled with insightful discussion and dialogue by the TYIM diversity educators, the effects are astounding. One of the keys TYIM has found to utilizing both disciplines is not to have them competing at the same time. They can share the same space, but they have to have some type of a slight separation. For instance, if an art reception and a performance are all going on at once, it becomes too much, and over loads the senses so that the retention of any message or lesson becomes garbled, due to the fact, there is no distinct focus. Now that’s fine and effective for a party atmosphere where camaraderie and interaction is the point, but you will loose the opportunity for any real effective learning and or the retention of the diversity subject or lessons trying to be taught. The two disciplines, for the purpose of education, must be broken up or separated either by allowing a brief moment for dialogue before moving from the art to the performance piece or by physically moving the audience through the art and settling in another location for the performance piece. This can be as simple as another spot in a gallery or in a completely separate room. TYIM has experienced, that like a performance itself, education needs rhythm. The slow tempo, methodical visual arts warms the audience with a steady pulse of in depth thought, then explodes into high energy as the performance art takes hold allowing the audience to release their emotional restraints. Diversity Education like all educational subjects, has peaks and valleys and no art educational experience is complete without the emotional releasing power of the performing arts.