ART WORKS Projects leverages the power of photography and documentary film to raise awareness and educate the public about some of the most pervasive and grave human rights violations.
ART WORKS Projects is celebrating our 15 year anniversary as a human rights organization advancing social justice through advocacy, grassroots activism, and visual storytelling.
We invite you on the journey as we build a vision for what the next 15 years look like in our pursuit for human rights and social justice.
As we continue to build out our new look, we encourage you to visit our old site to learn more about AWP.
Receive invitations to our 15 year anniversary events and find out how you can become an AWP supporter.
As we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, our hope is that we come out of this shared experience with lessons learned about our place and role in this global community.
Our 15 year anniversary allows us an opportunity to revisit our past exhibits and the issues we set out to address since 2006 in effort to re-imagine what the next decade of human rights activism and advocacy might look like through the lens of visual arts and beyond.
Upcoming Events
AWP is pleased to partner with photojournalist Wil Sands to present his new body of work covering the movement of refugees as they flee the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Since ART WORKS Projects (AWP) launched as a human rights arts advocacy organization in Chicago fifteen years ago, we have made strides in establishing a significant global footprint. Using art to reach hundreds of thousands of viewers, AWP has inspired audience members on five continents to support an end to grave human rights abuses. While we are proud of our impact, we know more essential works needs to be done.
Generous support for ART WORKS Projects is provided by funders including: The MacArthur Foundation, The Conant Family Foundation, and The Henry Nias Foundation.