Alexandra Grant's new coffee table book 'LOVE: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project' is about love, but it’s also about art-making, community and giving back.
In 1980, artist Alexandra Grant, then 7 years old, and her mother set out in a red Chrysler LeBaron headed from Washington, D.C., to Mexico City. Her mother, formerly a professor at Oberlin College, was relocating the two of them so she could take a post as a foreign service officer.
with partners such as the nonprofits Project Angel Food and Heart of Los Angeles. To date, the project has generated more than $300,000 for U.S. and international nonprofits. I was raised by many great people and one of them was [godfather] Warren Ilchman — he ran the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. My godmother was the president of Sarah Lawrence College, Alice S. Ilchman. And my mom was someone who cared deeply about international education. So I was surrounded by political scientists who were always talking about civic society and how do we give back to that. Also, having gone to Swarthmore College and the Quaker ethos of service.
You have a very deliberate educational agenda, with the project and the book, with regards to arts entrepreneurship for women and other minorities. Can you talk about that?
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