Exhibition Opening of Women of Togo
2018-11-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Oslo
Please join ART WORKS Projects for the opening of our exhibition Women of Togo by photographer Zoe Rain in partnership with Integrate Health. We will be joined by Rain who will give a short artist talk about her work.

Remarks to start at 6:30pm.
Refreshments will be served.
Free and open to the public.

Togo, a country of eight million people, has been forgotten by much of the world. UNICEF named Togo the 15th Most Dangerous Place to be born in the world in 2018. Nearly one in ten children will not live to see his or her fifth birthday—a rate fifteen times higher than that of developed countries. The five major killers of children in Togo—malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, HIV, and malnutrition—are all easily treatable conditions.
In February 2018, photographer Zoe Rain joined Integrate Health/Santé Intégrée, a community-led international health organization working to create a world where everyone, everywhere has access to high-quality healthcare in Togo, West Africa. Rain toured four clinics in the rural communities of Djamdè, Kpindi, Sarakawa, and Adabewere where, historically, a lack of resources, including no running water or electricity costs lives. The artist was on hand to document the impact that clinic renovations had to these distinct, isolated communities.
In Women of Togo, Rain uses a skill set and aesthetic cultivated capturing celebrity portraits—a look that we have come to associate with red carpets and award shows—to document the integrity, autonomy, self-reliance, and pride of Togolese women. For many Togolese, the frustration of having no opportunities, options, or resources can leave people feeling that they have no control. Integrate Health works to empower families to regain ownership over their health, something Rain beautifully illustrates through her photography.

To learn how to support Women of Togo as it is exhibited in Chicago and around the world, please contact Annalise Flynn-Taylor at ataylor@artworksprojects.org.

The Prosecutors: World Premiere, London
2018-11-24 | British Film Institute, Belvedere Rd, Lambeth,, London, SE1 8XT, United Kingdom
We are honored to present the world premiere of The Prosecutors at the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s Preventing Sexual Violence Film Festival.

Support AWP this Giving Tuesday!
2018-11-27 | Oslo
Since ART WORKS Projects (AWP) launched its work as a human rights arts advocacy organization in Chicago over a dozen years ago, it has established a significant global footprint. Using public 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 proud of our impact, we know more essential work needs to be done. And so, as we prepare for the decade to come, AWP is proud to announce the Next Steps Campaign 2020.

Since 2006 we have exhibited in over 60 cities in 30 countries on five continents. We’ve supported more than 100 artists and launched over 25 individual multi-media projects. As an organization, we’ve relied primarily on heavily invested volunteers and friends like you. We’ll always be an entrepreneurial team – but now is the time to support this bold success with the staff and infrastructure that can leverage the global network we’ve built together.

Over the coming months, the staff, board, and friends of AWP will build up the financial support necessary to ensure that on January 1, 2020, this unique organization is ready to make an even bigger impact on the human rights challenges we face today and the ones we must guard against tomorrow.

Click here to join the campaign by making your 2018 Giving Tuesday donation!

The Prosecutors: Assembly of States Parties, The Hague
2018-12-07 | World Forum, Churchillplein 10, 2517 JW, The Hague, Netherlands
An excerpt of The Prosecutors along with an expert panel discussion was presented at the 2018 Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court. Moderated by Alejandra Vicente, Daniela Kravetz, Eric Witte, and film director Leslie Thomas discussed the challenge and opportunities presented by national prosecution of conflict related sexual violence. The event was presented by the embassies of Chile, Costa Rica, and Norway.

From Togo to Chicago: A Universal Health Coverage Day Panel
2018-12-12 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Oslo
Please join ART WORKS Projects for a panel discussion on December 12, 2018 – Universal Health Coverage Day. Presented in tandem with AWP’s current exhibition Women of Togo by photographer Zoe Rain, this discussion will consider the current state of universal health coverage and methods to creating more equity and accessibility when it comes to attaining healthcare in Chicago and around the world.

Panelists:
Jennifer Schechter, Executive Director of Integrate Health
Dr. Judith Cothran, Founder and CEO of Women’s Health of Chicago
Dr. Nataka Moore, Director of Population Mental Health at Chicago Global Health Alliance
Moderated by Dr. Julie Darnell, Dept. of Public Health Sciences at Loyola University Chicago

This event is free and open to the public.

Please click here to register to attend.

Through the presentation of Rain’s portraits of Togolese women, their children, and the local practitioners providing their care, AWP hopes to create conversation about the importance of universal health coverage and what the United States—the country with the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world—can learn from community-based healthcare practices in place around the world.

Women of Togo is made possible with the generous support of The Patricia Crown Family.

University of Michigan exhibition of Deported: An American Division
2019-01-15 - 2019-01-31 | Weill Hall, 735 S. State Street , Ann Arbor, IL, 48109, United States
ART WORKS Projects is pleased to announce Deported: An American Division will be on view at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from January 15 -31, 2019.

Rachel Woolf, 2018 winner of the AWP Emerging Lens competition, captures moments in the days before Lourdes Salazar Bautista’s deportation hearing in Detroit and the family’s forced return to Toluca, Mexico, revealing in intimate detail the impact of deportation on real families. Stamps professor Hannah Smotrich designed the University of Michigan installation and collaborated with Ford School faculty Ann Lin and Fabiana Silva to situate the photographs in a policy, political, and historical context. Exhibit will be on display through January 31.

Deported: An American Division at University of Michigan
January 15 – 31, 2019
Weill Hall Great Hall
735 S. State Street
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Free and open to the public.
Hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Panel Discussion: One Family's Story
2019-01-21 11:30 - 13:20 (America/New_York) | Oslo
AWP is pleased to announce the panel discussion “One Family’s Story: People, Policy, and the Politics of Deportation,” presented in tandem with the exhibition of Deported: An American Division at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Join Rachel Woolf, Independent visual journalist; Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, Knight-Wallace Fellow, Mexican journalist and asylum seeker; Laura Sanders, co-founder of the Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights; and Ford School faculty Fabiana Silva for an interdisciplinary discussion moderated by professor Ann Lin on the recent history, impact, and ramifications of current American immigration policy. A U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium event.

One Family’s Story: People, Policy, and the Politics of Deportation
Monday, January 21 | 11:30 to 1:20pm EST
Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor

11:30 – 12:00: Strolling lunch and viewing of Deported: An American Division
12:15 – 1:30: Panel discussion

Free and open to the public.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP.

Hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Open Call for the 2019 Emerging Lens Mentorship Program
2019-01-24 - 2019-03-11 | Oslo
ART WORKS Projects (AWP) is pleased to announce its Open Call for the 2019 Annual Emerging Lens Mentorship Program. The 2019 competition is open to young photographers currently working on a human rights, social justice or humanitarian issue. Although the entrant must be a resident of the United States, the project may focus on international issues. The winning entrant will have an opportunity to receive a stipend to expand and/or finish their project and to exhibit the final project summer 2019 at the ART WORKS Projects Studio Gallery in Chicago.*

Open Call for the Emerging Lens Mentorship Program
January 24 to March 11, 2019
Click here to learn more about the competition.
Click here to submit your project.

*See the Official Rules for complete contest rules, including information on eligibility, entries, judging, prizes and the opportunity for mentoring, a stipend and an exhibition.

Questions? Please contact Annalise Taylor at ataylor@artworksprojects.org.

Photo by 2017 Emerging Lens winner Isadora Kosofsky.

The Prosecutors: International Women's Day, The Hague
2019-03-08 | UN International Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, Churchillplein 1, 2517 JW Den Haag, Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands
On International Women’s Day 2019 we were honored to present an excerpt of The Prosecutors along with two panel discussions at the UN International Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. Sponsored by the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice and the Office of the Gender Focal Point at the UN IRMCT, the event included conversations with legal experts and lawyers from the film. Support for this event was generously provided by the embassies of Canada, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

The Prosecutors: Forum for Women, Law, and Development, Kathmandu
2019-03-13 | Forum for Women, Law, and Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
The Prosecutors: Excerpt screening and discussion.

The Prosecutors: American University Washington College of Law, Washington DC
2019-03-20 12:00 (America/New_York) | American University Washington College of Law, 4300 Nebraska Ave NW, Washington DC 20016, DC, United States
The Prosecutors: The War Crimes Research Office (WCRO) and Ferencz International Justice Initiative of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will host a screening of The Prosecutors at American University Washington College of Law. The event will feature introductions by WCRO Director Susana SáCouto and the film’s director, Leslie Thomas, followed by a screening of the film. Ambassador Kelley Currie of the U.S. Department of State Office of Global Criminal Justice will offer reflections following the film. Ambassador Currie, Leslie Thomas, Professor SáCouto, and Ferencz Initiative Director Anna Cave will then take questions from the audience. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please RSVP at https://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration.

The Prosecutors: Festival of Tolerance, Ljubljana
2019-03-25 | Mini Teater, Križevniška ulica 1, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia
The Prosecutors will be featured at the Festival of Tolerance in Ljubljana, Slovenia. See website for details.

The Prosecutors: Carr Center for Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge
2019-04-09 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
The Prosecutors: Screening & panel discussion with Dara Kay Cohen, Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Jocelyn Kelly, founding director for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI) Women in War program; and Leslie Thomas, film director. Please click here for details.

The Prosecutors: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2019-05-08 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles,, CA, 90024, United States
This feature length documentary tells the story of three dedicated lawyers who fight to ensure that rape in war does not go unpunished. Filmed over five years on three continents, it takes viewers from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Bosnia and Herzegovina to Colombia on the long journey towards justice. (2018, dir. Leslie Thomas, 96 min.)

For more information: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2019/05/the-prosecutors/

The Prosecutors: Council on Global Affairs, Chicago
2019-05-13 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Council on Global Affairs, Prudential Plaza, 130 E. Randolph St., Chicago, IL, 60601, United States
The Prosecutors: Screening & panel discussion with Leslie Thomas, Director; Kim Thuy Seelinger, Director, Sexual Violence Program, Human Rights Center, Berkeley School of Law; and Patricia Viseur Sellers, Special Advisor for Gender, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court. Moderated by Steve Bynum. Click here for details.

The Prosecutors at The Hague Film House
2019-06-18 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | The Hague Film House, Spui 191, The Hague, Netherlands
19 June has been International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict Situations (proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly) since 2015.
In The Prosecutors, director Leslie Thomas talks about this subject. War is accompanied by rape and looting. Thomas asks the right question – why we should tolerate sexual violence as a by-product of those wars? The film shows that prosecution in this area is slowly changing, although lawyers, governments and citizens’ initiatives are working hard on it worldwide. We see examples of this in the film: three legal prosecutors in Colombia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and the Democratic Republic of Congo respectively, are fighting for justice.
After the film there is a conversation with the filmmaker, Leslie Thomas, who comes to The Hague for this purpose, and with Niamh Hayes, “legal expert in prosecution of gender-related war crimes.”

For more information about The Prosecutors, please visit www.theprosecutorsmovie.com.

The Prosecutors: CIFF, Goma
2019-07-06 | Congo International Film Festival, Goma, Congo, Democratic Republic of the
The Prosecutors: Screening and panel at the Congo International Film Festival. Please check back for details.

The Prosecutors: DokuFest
2019-08-05 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Oslo
ART WORKS Projects showed The Prosecutors at DokuFest on August 5th, 2019. The documentary’s screening was followed by a panel discussion with Drita Hajdari, War Crimes Prosecutor at Special Prosecution Office of Kosovo, Irena Cahani – Actress, Sibel Halimi – Sociologist.

Exhibition Opening of Life After a Hate Crime
2019-08-22 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Oslo
Please join ART WORKS Projects for the opening of our fifth annual Emerging Lens exhibition Life After a Hate Crime by photographer Megan Farmer. Farmer will be joined by Dr. Iván Arenas (see bio below) to discuss this project and take questions from the audience. To learn more about the Emerging Lens Mentorship Program, click here.

Remarks to start at 6:30pm.
Refreshments will be served.
Free and open to the public.

Farmer’s project follows DaShawn Horne, his family, and his community as he fights to recover from a racially motivated attack that occurred in early 2018. Farmer’s relationship with Horne and his family is ongoing; this exhibition will include recent interviews with the family as Horne continues to rebuild his life.

“The Horne family welcomed me into their upended lives after a brutal hate crime changed everything. DaShawn Horne, a young father, was beaten within an inch of his life. After suffering a traumatic brain injury, he had to relearn everything he once knew. He is still recovering today. Not only was DaShawn’s life forever changed, but the lives of his family members were too. My hope is to shed light onto the realities that hate crime survivors and their families are left with long after news headlines fade,” says Farmer about Life After a Hate Crime.

Dr. Iván Arenas is a Mexican-American anthropologist, architect, artist, activist, and parent. His research focuses on how social movements use creative art practices to establish solidarities beyond the state. Dr. Arenas works with Chicago Torture Justice Memorials to provide reparations for Chicago’s racially motivated law enforcement violence and with the ACT Collective using art to build political artistic collaboration and dialogue across Chicago’s multiple communities. Dr. Arenas is the Associate Director for Community Partnerships at UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP). At IRRPP, he works to connect faculty, students, and the community through research and programming on race, ethnicity, and public policy that enable not just greater understanding of racial inequalities, but mobilizes towards collective action. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2011 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Photo: LaDonna Horne becomes emotional after one of the first times that her son, DaShawn Horne, made a sound on Thursday, March 15, 2018, at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Three days later, DaShawn spoke words that could be understood.

SUPPORT FOR THIS PROJECT
Many thanks to our generous Community Sponsor:

The Henry Nias Foundation

To learn how to become a sponsor of the Emerging Lens Mentorship Program, please contact Annalise Flynn-Taylor at ataylor@artworksprojects.org.

The Prosecutors: Georgetown University
2019-09-05 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | Intercultural Center Auditorium, 37th and O Street N.W., Washington, DC, 20007, United States
The Prosecutors: Screening at 7:00 PM; Q&A with director Leslie Thomas at 8:00 PM; Reception at 8:45 PM.

The Prosecutors: Drew University
2019-09-12 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Drew University Learning Center Room, 36 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ, 07940, United States
The Prosecutors: Screening at 6:00 PM

The Prosecutors: Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
2019-09-17 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 55 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The Prosecutors: Screening at 6:00 PM.
Questions and Requests for Accommodations – Contact Ali Cain at alexandra.cain@yu.edu / 212-790-0809.

The Prosecutors: the University of Denver Sturm College of Law
2019-09-19 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | The University of Denver Sturm College of Law Room 165, 2255 East Evans Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
The Prosecutors: Doors will open at 6:00 PM; Screening will begin at 6:00 PM.

The Prosecutors: Glasgow
2019-09-22 19:30 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
ART WORKS Projects will be presenting The Prosecutors at Take One Action! Film Festivals. Screening at 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

The Prosecutors: Edinburgh
2019-09-23 17:50 - 19:30 (Europe/London) | Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ, United Kingdom
ART WORKS Projects will be presenting The Prosecutors at Take One Action! Film Festivals. Screening at 5:50 PM – 7:30 PM.

The Prosecutors: UnionDocs
2019-10-11 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | UnionDocs, 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11211, United States

Open Call for the 2020 Emerging Lens Mentorship Program
2019-11-07 - 2020-02-15 | Oslo
ART WORKS Projects (AWP) is pleased to announce its Open Call for the 2020 Annual Emerging Lens Mentorship Program. The 2020 competition is open to photographers age 18 to 27 currently working on a human rights, social justice or humanitarian issue. Although the entrant must be a resident of the United States, the project may focus on international issues. The winning entrant will have an opportunity to receive a stipend to expand and/or finish their project and to exhibit the final in 2020 at the ART WORKS Projects Studio Gallery in Chicago.*

Open Call for the 2020 Emerging Lens Mentorship Program
November 7 to February 15, 2020
Click here to learn more about the competition.
Click here to submit your project.

*See the Official Rules for complete contest rules, including information on eligibility, entries, judging, prizes and the opportunity for mentoring, a stipend and an exhibition.

Questions? Please contact Annalise Flynn-Taylor at ataylor@artworksprojects.org.

Generous support for the Emerging Lens Mentorship Program provided by the Henry Nias Foundation.
For more information on supporting this program, contact Cate Walters at cwalters@artworksprojects.org.

Photo by 2019 Emerging Lens winner Megan Farmer

NY Exhibition of Women of Togo
2020-01-19 - 2020-01-31 | Fordham University, 2546 Belmont Avenue, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Please join ART WORKS Projects for the opening of our exhibition Women of Togo by photographer Zoe Rain at Fordham University in partnership with the Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center, the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, and Integrate Health.

Women of Togo
January 19 – 31, 2020
Canisius Gallery | Fordham University
2546 Belmont Ave., Bronx, NY 10458
For more info: canisiusgallery@gmail.com.

Togo, a country of eight million people, has been forgotten by much of the world. UNICEF named Togo the 15th Most Dangerous Place to be born in the world in 2018. Nearly one in ten children will not live to see his or her fifth birthday—a rate fifteen times higher than that of developed countries. The five major killers of children in Togo—malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, HIV, and malnutrition—are all easily treatable conditions.
In February 2018, photographer Zoe Rain joined Integrate Health/Santé Intégrée, a community-led international health organization working to create a world where everyone, everywhere has access to high-quality healthcare in Togo, West Africa. Rain toured four clinics in the rural communities of Djamdè, Kpindi, Sarakawa, and Adabewere where, historically, a lack of resources, including no running water or electricity costs lives. The artist was on hand to document the impact that clinic renovations had to these distinct, isolated communities.
In Women of Togo, Rain uses a skill set and aesthetic cultivated capturing celebrity portraits—a look that we have come to associate with red carpets and award shows—to document the integrity, autonomy, self-reliance, and pride of Togolese women. For many Togolese, the frustration of having no opportunities, options, or resources can leave people feeling that they have no control. Integrate Health works to empower families to regain ownership over their health, something Rain beautifully illustrates through her photography.

To learn how to support Women of Togo as it is exhibited around the world, please contact Cate Walters at cwalters@artworksprojects.org.

Sanctuary/Sustenance at Quincy University
2020-01-20 - 2020-01-25 | Quincy University, 1800 College Ave., Quincy, IL, 62301, United States
We are thrilled to share that AWP’s film Sanctuary/Sustenance will be screened from January 20th to 25th at Quincy University’s Social Justice Week.
Social Justice Week is hosted by Quincy’s Office of Student Development and Multicultural Affairs. The film screening as well as other SJW activities will be held in the basement of Francis Hall on campus.
Sanctuary/Sustenance aims to raise the public consciousness of these issues to a wide variety of people, and facilitate conversations about our collective responsibility to welcome refugees and encourage policy makers to act in favor of fundamental human rights for refugees and asylum seekers.
Sanctuary/Sustenance was created in partnership with Manifest Media and supported by UNHCR and the Frankel Family Foundation.
Photo: Maren Wickwire

Sanctuary/Sustenance at Quincy University Copy
2020-01-20 - 2020-01-25 | Quincy University, 1800 College Ave., Quincy, IL, 62301, United States
