Art
Art Of Hope Helps To Heal Wounds You Might Not Be Able To See
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Projects like Art Of Hope treat the wounds you can’t see by “providing trauma & PTSD relief for Syrian refugees through art therapy & vocational training.”
Queens Free Press (http://www.queensfreepress.com/tag/art/)
Projects like Art Of Hope treat the wounds you can’t see by “providing trauma & PTSD relief for Syrian refugees through art therapy & vocational training.”
We will be using these packets as part of a collage to highlight the fact that Irish law (specifically, the Eighth Amendment, which makes abortion illegal in the Republic of Ireland) is not preventing women from procuring abortions.
Andrea Horan created The HunReal Issues –a website that works to “…empower and engage non-politically motivated people” over a month ago. Together, Horan and her staff looked at how they could best achieve that objective. As part of their efforts, they enlisted the help of models and TV presenters. They also asked popular artist, Maser, if he would contribute some artwork.
Bertolt Brecht once said that ““Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Alex Etchart and Siobhan Knox have taken that Brecht quote to heart, and are using opera as a hammer to break down stereotypes, and help shape new conversations on sex work with their show, Sex Workers Opera.
Egyptian artist, Khadiga El-Ghawas started sketching and doing tags on street corners in 2010...Then on January 25, 2011, everything changed as Egyptians took to the streets to call for the removal of then-President Hosni Mubarak...It was also in 2011 that she connected with Women on Walls and began to use her art to actively engage with political discourses and discourses on women.
Last weekend was the 5th annual LIC Arts Open, with exhibitions, performances, film screenings and open studios at dozens of industrial buildings, galleries, hotels and restaurants in the neighborhood.
Last weekend, the Queens Council on the Arts presented the first of what is expected to be an annual professional development event, the Queens Arts Connection. Held in the lovely sunken event space at the recently renovated Queens Museum, it was a great opportunity for artists to get consultations on their work and current projects from museum curators and other arts professionals.