History of PUMA.Creative
AN OVERVIEW OF PUMA’S ACTIVITIES AND INITIATIVES
2007-Held the first PUMA Central Saint Martins Bursary Fund and Awards
-Partnered with the Central Saint Martins MA Graduate Shows at London Fashion Weeks
2008-PUMA.Creative sponsors its first exhibit: “30 Americans” at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida, during Art Basel Miami Beach 2008
-Held the first PUMA.Creative Mobility Awards
-Partnered with the Central Saint Martins MA Graduate Shows at London Fashion Weeks
2009-Partnered with the Design Museum of London to present the Hussein Chalayan’s retrospective From Fashion and Back
-Created the Creative Africa Network (CAN), a live and virtual platform for the exchange of creativity and ideas
-Announced support for Africa Express, an organization devoted to live collaborations between Western and African Music
-Sponsored free concert with Africa Express in Paris with 16,000 attendees
-Partnered with 3rd Arts in Marrakech (AiM) International Biennale
-Partnered with Bamako Encounters African Photography Biennale in Mali
-Sponsor Emerging Film Maker Award at 29th annual Hawaii International Film Festival, -
-Sponsored screenings of the Environmental movie “Home” directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
-Created the Creative Caribbean Network (CNN), a live and virtual platform for the exchange of creativity and ideas
-Held Creative Africa Network Ambassadors Awards
-Partnered with Joburg Art Fair in Johannesburg, South Africa
-Partnered with the Central Saint Martins MA Graduate Shows at London Fashion Weeks
2010-Kehinde Wiley’s PUMA sponsored series of portraits of African football players was unveiled in Berlin in January before departing on an exhibition tour of Paris, London, New York, Beijing and Milan, ending in South Africa in time for the World Cup
-Sponsored our first Annual Sustainable Design Lecture at the Design Museum, London, U.K.
-Partnered with the Design Museum of London on the exhibition Sustainable Futures* *(can design make a difference?)
-Partnered with the symposium Global Caribbean: Interrogating the Politics of Location in Literature and Culture at the University of Miami and the Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami, U.S.A
-Partnered with the 17th Annual Sydney Biennale to enable all participating artists from Africa, the Caribbean and Diaspora to participate and sponsored a forum on Afro-Caribbean contemporary art and culture
-Partnered with 35th annual Caribbean Studies Conference in Barbados
-Partnered with Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica
- Created the PUMA.Creative Documentary Awards, a series of awards and support for the production of documentary films, in partnership with the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation