Acts: Art Responding Language, Rhetoric and Politics. His steel sculptures began as the collaboration with Danny Scheffer for the Brooklyn Artlot. Shifreen and Gila Paris, organized a series of exhibitions in June 2009 along with Luxembroug group "cultureinside.com", the first one entitled ROOTED - the premiere. In September and October 2009, Shifreen co-produced the A Bailout for the Rest of Us: Recession Art Sale in Manhattan with Elanit Kayne. It featured thirty artists and thirty out-of-work professional artists. Shifreen hosted the online gallery on www.cultureinside.com. In December 2009, he participated in the Orchard Street Shul Cultural Heritage Artists Project at the John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art in New Haven. His work was an audio take on prayer chants and ritual songs in Jewish culture. On July 28, 2010, Shifreen worked with Cultureinside.com to premiere an art exhibition entitled EUtopia - Artistic Visions of Europe at the Centre Culturel de Recontre Abbaye de Neumunster in Luxembourg. The dual theme was centered on the name and the context of "poverty and social exclusion" in Europe. CultureInside first organized the show using its base of 3100 online members. 70 pieces of diverse media, including painting, photography, sculpture, digital, video, and performance, were then chosen by a curatorial committee. The works came from 13 different countries. Guy de Muyser, President du Conseil d'Administration du CCRN, the organization that runs the Abbaye, as well as the Culture Minister of Luxembourg Octavie Modert, both spoke at the opening ceremony. Personal life Shifreen continues to teach homebound disabled students for the New York City Department of Education. He is a practitioner of shamanism. See also Gowanus Memorial Artyard References External links Frank Shifreen at Facebook Portfolio links Portfolio at absolutearts.com Portfolio at The Brooklyn Art Project 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters Living people 1948 births Pratt Institute alumni Adelphi University alumni Teachers College, Columbia University alumni 20th-century American male artists