Brazilian artist and art educator Johab Silva lives and works in the Washington, D.C. metro area. He is Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington's artist resident and founder of NEW MEDIA WORKSHOP. Silva holds a graduate degree in Arts in Education from the Corcoran College of Art & Design and an MFA from Maine College of Art & Design. His ongoing research explores themes of environmental issues, time, chance, and fabrication/consumption/collection of digital media, through lenses of a multidisciplinary practice (NFTs, VR, generative media, and performance art). His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Transformer Gallery, Santo André Museum of Art, Cody Gallery, and Kreeger Museum, and Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Portland, ME. Recent exhibitions includes the NKR Neuer Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, Germany, and Museum of Contemporary Art, VA, USA.  Silva's works  can be found in many private collections and have been reviewed in The Washington Post, BMoreArt, Sculpture Magazine, Cruzeiro do Sul Newspaper, PBS, and many other media venues.

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Any community - small or large - can grow at any pace or form, but it is crucial NOT to negotiate the environmental impact the urban growth may cause, especially in green environments.