Press Releases
JUNE 2012 – ART WORKS Projects, in collaboration with Soyini Madison and the Northwestern Oral History and Performance as Social Action Institute, presents Voice of Witness: Testimonies and Images from Burma, at the Chicago Cultural Center on Sunday June 10 from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm. This event will bring together dramatic readings from Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s
Military Regime with music and Christian Holst’s photographs from the exhibit BLOOD/STONES: Burmese Rubies on display at the Field Museum through June 10th. The performance will be supplemented with an introduction and a moderated Q&A led by ART WORKS Projects and an expert on Burma.
MAY 2012 – The Center for Forced Migration Studies (CFMS) will host “The Importance of Bearing Witness: Testimony, Justice and the Global Fight to End Sexual Violence” at Northwestern University on Thursday, May 24th. The program will include a dramatic reading of collected testimonies of Congolese women by the Northwestern Oral History and Performance as Social Action Institute, accompanied by a series of photographs and printed testimonies that reflect situations faced by women in the Congo. The showcase will be followed by a brief presentation from Therese Kulungu, a Congolese human rights lawyer who collected the testimonies during her work representing victims of sexual violence. After the presentation, Galya Ruffer, director of the CFMS, will moderate a panel discussion on global sexual violence and the challenges of bearing witness. The panelists include Leslie Thomas, executive director of ARTWORKS PROJECTS, and Anne K Ream, founder of the Voices and Faces Project.
FEBRUARY 2010 — Congo/Women Photography Exhibition & Educational Campaign International Tour
Congo/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo is an international photography exhibition and educational campaign to raise awareness of the widespread sexual violence facing women and girls in Congo. The exhibition features powerful life-size photographs that convey the strength and courage of Congolese women, with accompanying essays that describe the impact of the crisis from a range of perspectives.
MAY 2009 — The non-profit organization Art Works Projects (AWP) continues to attract the attention of government officials as evidenced by the presentation of three AWP visual advocacy exhibitions in a matter of days on Capitol Hill and at the United Nations in New York. AWP’S work on rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo, genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and human trafficking, forced labor, and child labor will be featured on Capitol Hill and the United Nations during the week of May 11. AWP uses art and design in order to bring attention to human rights crises and environmental issues around the world.
SEPTEMBER 2009 — Art Works Projects is proud to announce that its internationally touring multimedia exhibition DARFUR/DARFUR will be projected at the plaza adjacent to the International Center for Photography while the United Nations General Assembly is in session. With a continually updated body of work, this event marks the first time that DARFUR/DARFUR will include images reflecting the conditions of the region after the conviction of President al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court. With heads of state in New York, this is an optimal time to seek a response from our leaders.
SEPTEMBER 2009 — Art Works Projects is proud to announce that images from its exhibitions Congo/Women, DARFUR/DARFUR and its most recent production AT WHAT COST_Human Trafficking/Forced Labor/Child Labor will be featured in an event at the Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco on September 15, 2009. Projections of photographs from these exhibitions will be featured alongside presentations from Mark Brecke, a photojournalist and director of the documentary They Turned Our Desert Into Fire and Tu Dang, foreign affairs officer in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of International Labor and Corporate Responsibility. The non-profit organization Art Works Projects (AWP) is pleased to facilitate a conversation about current human rights crises by bringing its visual tools to San Francisco. Launched in 2008, AWP uses art and design to bring attention to human rights crises and environmental issues around the world.