HELP US – HELP YOU
Submitted by TB on May 13, 2009 – 7:30 am4 Comments
Help us – Help you! We at ARTWORKS have been noticing a trend. In tough times, artists tend to step up and take action. There are a lot of good things going on in the world. And a lot of artists are doing good things with their art. WE WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THEM. If you know of an artist who is giving back to humanity in some form, please tell us his/her story. Just send us an email or add a comment. We will select a few “Good Works” and highlight them in our new editorial section called: ARTWORKS FOR GOOD. Email us at: editorial@artworksmagazine.com. In the subject line, write ARTWORKS FOR GOOD.
Dear Artworks,
I have been working 3 years now for the United Nations Association Film Festival, an international documentary film festival originally established at Stanford University to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
UNAFF celebrates the power of films and videos dealing with human rights, environmental survival, women’s issues, protection of refugees, homelessness, racism, disease control, universal education, war and peace.
Our film director and executive founder, Jasmina Bojic has committed herself to educating thousands of viewers about issues that continue to affect the lives of so many people around the world including the United States.
We host academics and filmmakers so they can discuss topics that encourage dialogue and action by humanizing global and local programs – these groups otherwise separated by geography, ethnic and economic constraints.
All in all, I think Jasmina Bojic is an excellent candidate for someone who is giving back to humanity through the powerful force of documentary filmmaking as a tool for social and political understanding.
Thank you,
Nisha Singh
(btw, I love your magazine, gives me so much spiritual clarity!)
Hello-
I paint a sort of daily-ish online diary. Sometimes I feature the odd charity news item. For example with the recent Poppy Day appeal here in the UK. The Royal British Legion sell poppies to raise funds for ex-service personnel and related charities-I`m sure the USA does similar. I painted three small images, each featured the charity poppy motif, these I subsequently sold on my site to help raise awareness and of course a little money…these and lots more small daily images can be seen at http://www.imagefromthevillage.co.uk
I know it may not be much but every little bit adds up-I am giving a little back only too gladly….more to follow.
Thanks for your excellent space here-to which I am a new finder and fan.
Eugene
The n. lecorot: self-taught Artist in painting, with studies in photography and lighting cinema in Argentina, to controlled diverse times in Chile and Argentina, the last time was a part(report) of the exhibition of the Latin-American Congress of design ” Her(It) Sweat ” “chili” and now in Quilpué for the exhibition that prepares the Bar Trotamundos. It(he,she) will continue exhibiting in Vineyard of the Mar and Valparaiso, while adjuntamente prepares a project of photographic restoration by means of illustration, the otter lecorot has devoted itself to control constant public and private spaces (restaurants, bars,) With descriptive pictures of the reality doing an act of pride between(among) the works themselves, Doing of these exhibitions a key moment of very short path where the walls compose in a dialogue verbs, phrases and prayers(sentences) across amazed, extremely descriptive images of a reality that comes to turn out to be absurd but very certain and sincere.
My “Seen/Unseen” installation was created for women suffering behind burqas and veils in countries ruled by outdated Islamic law. Only women under sharia law must cover their heads with veils. They have no choice. The most extreme religious leaders demand that their women wear full-body veils called burqas, which cover everything including the eyes. An eight-year-old rape victim can to be stoned to death for having allegedly shamed her family. Slightly more merciful would be death by drowning or being locked away in a dark room for the rest of her days. It is not uncommon for a father to “marry off” his eleven-year-old daughter to a man twenty years her senior. Stephanie Sinclair photographed one such couple, as well as women who were being treated for critical self-inflicted burns in Afghanistan. Jean Sasson tells the true story of a Saudi Arabian princess in her Princess trilogy. It seems disingenuous for a white girl from the US to make art about this, but these women are not free to speak for themselves. At present I am creating work in hopes of saving Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, whose death-by-stoning sentence has been delayed because of public outcry.