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For Gesture as Value, an international project encouraging cultural exchange as a social value, artist Jerelyn Hanrahan asked artists and organizations from ten countries–Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States–to contribute small drawings, paintings, texts, or quotations on paper the size of an American dollar.- Jerelyn Hanrahan's artistic career began with a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Maryland in College Park where she studied with David Driscoll, Anne Truit, Martin Puryear, and William Willis.In 2002 she received an M.F.A. in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts . She has traveled extensively throughout India, Asia, Korea, Europe, Cuba and the United States. Jerelyn Hanrahan has been interviewed on three occasions for the PS1 / Museum of Modern Art radio station, and on National Public Radio with Margo Adler, the BBC in New York and London, Telli –Bern in Switzerland, Air Canada in Toronto and on Havana T.V. in Cuba. Her work has been favorably reviewed by Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, Newsday,neue bildende kunst, Time Out Magazine, the Village Voice, NYArts, the Brooklyn Rail, Tages Anzeiger , Kunst Bulletin, Art Observer, Adbusters and The Resident, as well as many local newspapers and numerous international publications.