Yazmany Arboleda

Yazmany Arboleda (b. 1981) is a Colombian American artist based in New York City. An architect by training, Yazmany activates communities with large scale art projects that seek to build heart-felt connections that lead to meaningful relationships. He believes that art is a verb not a noun. Over the past two decades he has created public art projects with communities in India, Japan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Afghanistan, Spain, Colombia and the United States. He has collaborated with Carnegie Hall, the Yale School of Management, and BRIC. He is a cofounder of limeSHIFT, the Future Historical Society, Remember 2019, and the Artist As Citizen Conference. He is the first artist in residence for New York City's Civic Engagement Commission.

Art providing new languages, beyond words, that offer some possibility of moving humans towards more symbiotic relationships with nature.

Baleen and sperm whales, known collectively as the great whales, include the largest animals in the history of life on Earth. There are many who think of whales as ecosystem engineers because they transport important nutrients both horizontally and vertically through the ocean that provide food for phytoplankton which through photosynthesis produce 50% of the world's oxygen. I see my work as an artist in the world also as an ecosystem engineer - a creator of cultural fabric with a responsibility to feed and forge new relationships between humankind and our aquatic and territorial heritage.

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