Please join ART WORKS Projects and Fourth Presbyterian Church on the evening of October 2nd for the Interfaith Immigrant Justice Vigil, an evening of prayer, song, art, and protest, as we call for justice for our immigrant sisters and brothers. October 2, 2018 | 5:30 - 7:30pm Fourth Presbyterian Church | 126 E. Chestnut […]
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. […]
We are honored to present the world premiere of The Prosecutors at the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office's Preventing Sexual Violence Film Festival.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Prosecutors: Excerpt screening and discussion.
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 […]