NEW EXHIBIT OPENING JUNE 6th!
Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art
When: June 6 - September 9, 2011
Where: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, Global Health Odyssey Museum, Temporary Gallery, Upper Level
Off the Beaten Path presents the work of 28 contemporary artists from 24 countries, including Yoko Ono (Japan), Louise Bourgeois (France), Wangechi Mutu (Kenya), Mona Hatoum (Palestine), and Hank Willis Thomas (USA), whose work addresses the issues of violence against women and girls around the world and their basic human rights to a safe and secure life. The project combines cutting-edge art with important social messaging and storytelling to help create awareness,
inspiration, and address systems for positive social change and action. more
From the Curator
Randy Jayne Rosenberg, executive director of the nonprofit group Art Works for Change, is the exhibit's curator. Read an excerpt from the Curator Statement below.
"Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb. It occurs in every segment of society, regardless of class, ethnicity, culture, or whether the country is at peace or war. Often, the victim's only crime is that she is female."
Read the full Curator Statement and take a virtual tour of the exhibit online.
Image Credit: Mona Hatoum, Over My Dead Body, 2006, photo: Bill Orcutt, courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York
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