China Blue is the recipient of a Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant from the Rauschenberg Foundation.
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant
The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant is administered by The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is partnering with New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) to administer the Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants. The grants are available to visual and media artists, and choreographers living anywhere in the United States or U.S. Territories. This program was established in the tradition of the artist’s Change, Inc., a non-profit foundation established in 1970 by Robert Rauschenberg to assist professional artists of all disciplines in need of emergency medical aid.
Though funded by the Rauschenberg Foundation, the program is administered by the NYFA.
In expanding upon the artist’s legacy, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation celebrates new and even untested ways of thinking and acting. The Foundation supports research, institutions, and artists that embody the same collaborative, inclusive, and multidisciplinary approach that Rauschenberg exemplified in both his art and philanthropic endeavors.
About China Blue
China Blue’s work explores connectivity. Through her investigation of sound at the intersection of science and technology she is inspired by how our world is built from our sensations and perceptions. This emerging world provides not only a basis for exploring the inner world of the mind but also our senses forecasting a way to transcend their limits and connect to each other.
China Blue is an internationally exhibiting and award winning artist. She is known for her discoveries of the sounds in Saturn’s rings for NASA and the voice of the Eiffel Tower. Over the past two plus decades she has researched NASA’s Vertical Gun’s acoustics whose projectiles shoot at Mach-15, the sonics of an asteroid impact on Mars and the songs produced by our brains. With this research she explores connectivity through her installations, environments, paintings and soundwalks.
As an internationally exhibiting artist in 2019 + 2024 she exhibited her work at the Venice Biennale. In 2013 China Blue was the US Representative at Tokyo Wondersite’s Experimental Art Fair and in 2008 at OPEN XI in the Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2012 her exhibition at the Newport Art Museum “Firefly Projects” was nominated the “Best Museum Show Nationally by the International Association of Art Critics.
“Theta for Pauline” is a sculpture and musical score made for Pauline Oliveros. When Seth Horowitz and I met Pauline and her partner Ione we quickly grew to respect both of them for the depth of their work. Learning about Pauline’s interest and development of “Deep Listening” was the topic that made us quick friends.