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Aliza Shvarts: Introducing Off Scene, Artspace, May 11-June 25, 2018

For the past ten years I’ve lived a strange contradiction for an artist: I’m best known for a piece that no one has ever seen. In 2008, I came to national media attention for my senior thesis in the Art major at Yale, which was banned by the university and has never been shown in any public way. My project, though controversial, was inspired by questions that I think are central to both feminism and art: What are our capacities as makers? What can a body do?

By impactmania|2025-11-24T17:03:12+00:00April 21st, 2018|Human Interests|

Gus Harper’s Work on Walls around the World

Gus Harper, artist and muralist, is in Santa Barbara to paint a mural on Haley Street. The UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) alumnus (Law and Society and Art Studio) joked that Track & Field was his real major. Gus returned recently from a three-month trip in Asia where he donated his time to several mural projects: a clubhouse in the slums of India, a train station in Sri Lanka, and a wall of a bakery in Laos.

By impactmania|2025-11-15T15:28:56+00:00April 20th, 2018|Art|

Women of Impact Exhibition at AD&A Museum, July 19th – September

Most media would like us to believe that women have taken a backseat in driving cultural, social, and economic impact. In two years, impactmania featured more than 125 female change makers in 30 countries including ambassadors; impact investors;

By impactmania|2025-11-24T17:29:59+00:00March 19th, 2018|Human Interests|

impactmania’s Presentation to AD&A Museum interns, UC Santa Barbara

Initially, I found these numbers alarming. Now I look at these and am excited. These numbers also mean there will be many new opportunities. We’ll need Chief Productivity Officers, nano-medics, robot-counselors (matching people w/ robots), 3D body part makers. Apart from wealth mangers, you will also have crypto-currency managers. But also non-technology jobs such as a nostaligst: someone who recreates familiar living places for the elderly.

By impactmania|2025-11-24T17:26:57+00:00March 18th, 2018|Human Interests|

The First Urban Farm in Latin America working with UN’s SDG

impactmania announced a partnership with Newton Paiva University in Brazil, October 2017. Here is the first video story about a startup that matters created in partnership with Newton Paiva. Similar to impactmania’s video story about a social enterprise, Jaipur Rugs, in [...]

By impactmania|2025-11-15T17:16:58+00:00February 6th, 2018|Environment|

Still We Rise event at UC Santa Barbara

AD&A Museum and UCSB’s Theater and Dance Department’s, Professor Monique Meunier, hosted Still We Rise, an artistic accumulation of Professor Rick Benjamin’s poems, scenes from Professor Risa Brainin’s Staging the Daffy Dame, and Prof. Meunier’s own choreography and music selections.

By impactmania|2025-11-14T12:08:34+00:00January 26th, 2018|Social and Cultural|

AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara Partners with impactmania!

In January 2018, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara (AD&A Museum, UCSB) will partner with impactmania and launch a unique collaboration. To cement this partnership, Paksy Plackis-Cheng, impactmania’s founder, is named Senior Fellow of Research and Media.

By impactmania|2025-11-24T17:38:45+00:00January 10th, 2018|Human Interests|

impactmania speaks at EU AI Fairness Cluster in the Netherlands

2023 | Meet the Drapers

impactmania’s founder on Meet the Drapers for Staex in California

2021 | Women of Impact – Italy

impactmania Women of Impact – Italy will take place in an intimate setting in July. Paola Ferrari has been part of the impactmania’s Women of Impact network since 2017. She traveled with impactmania’s founder Paksy Plackis-Cheng to New Zealand and experienced firsthand a once -in-a-lifetime professional opportunity and lasting personal friendship. Together they are looking forward to hosting you in Bella Italia!

2020 | Stay at Home!

COVID turned us all into Digital Nomads! Read more about working location-independently and the impact of modern day people movement.

2019 | Women of Impact – New Zealand

impactmania’s Women of Impact was awarded the U.S. Embassy Diplomacy grant to interview 12 Women of Impact in New Zealand. The U.S. Consul General will welcome the women and a public event will take place in Auckland, November 3-8, 2019. Here are the Women of Impact Aotearoa.

2018 | Women of Impact – California

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