ART WORKS Projects is pleased to announce the multimedia film Sanctuary/Sustenance: The Story of Many Journeys will be projected in cities across Europe throughout 2017 thanks to generous support from the COFRA Foundation. Through photographs, moving graphics, and music, viewers have an opportunity to trace the journey of a family during the catastrophic events of […]
ART WORKS Projects is pleased to announce our spring exhibition Sanctuary/Sustenance: The Story of Many Journeys. Through photographs, moving graphics, and music, viewers have an opportunity to trace the journey of a family during the catastrophic events of displacement, on a path to sanctuary, and through the long process of rebuilding life in a new […]
ART WORKS Projects is pleased to announce our spring exhibition Sanctuary/Sustenance: The Story of Many Journeys. Through photographs, moving graphics, and music, viewers have an opportunity to trace the journey of a family during the catastrophic events of displacement, on a path to sanctuary, and through the long process of rebuilding life in a new […]
ART WORKS Projects is pleased to announce the multimedia film Sanctuary/Sustenance: The Story of Many Journeys will be projected in cities across Europe throughout 2017 thanks to generous support from the COFRA Foundation. Through photographs, moving graphics, and music, viewers have an opportunity to trace the journey of a family during the catastrophic events of […]
ART WORKS Projects is pleased to announce our spring exhibition Sanctuary/Sustenance: The Story of Many Journeys. Through photographs, moving graphics, and music, viewers have an opportunity to trace the journey of a family during the catastrophic events of displacement, on a path to sanctuary, and through the long process of rebuilding life in a new […]
Youth, Culture, and Assimilation explores the delicate process of assimilation as young refugees balance honoring family and societal cultures and traditions from home countries with adapting to a new life in the United States. The process can be both exciting and challenging, as youth often adapt more quickly to new languages and cultural norms, which […]
Please join ART WORKS Projects for the opening of Vinny and David: Life and Incarceration of a Family by photographer Isadora Kosofsky, winner of the 2017 Emerging Lens Mentorship Program. Vinny and David began in 2012 when Kososky met Vinny, then age 13, as he was booked into a juvenile detention center for stabbing his […]
Please join ART WORKS Projects for The Confined Family: Exploring the Impact of Incarcerating Children, an evening of conversation with Restore Justice Illinois (RJI) and Communities and Relatives of Illinois Incarcerated Children (CRIIC). This program will address the realities of incarcerating children through the experiences of those both inside and outside of the criminal justice system with a […]
Join ART WORKS Projects and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a Family Day of celebrating collective action and art making. AWP will display images from Vinny and David: Life and Incarceration of a Family to complement Hull-House Museum's current exhibition States of Incarceration. Families can participate in kid-friendly activities including sewing, letter writing, dance, games, photography viewing, […]
Please join ART WORKS Projects and the Center for Refugee Solidarity for an outdoor screening of Sanctuary/Sustenance: The Story of Many Journeys. The film will also be screened at the Södra Community Theatre in cooperation with The Tess Theatre. Sanctuary/Sustenance is a multimedia film that traces the journey of a family during the catastrophic events […]
Please join ART WORKS Projects (AWP) and First Defense Legal Aid (FDLA) at West Englewood Branch Library for a Know your Rights Workshop focused on juvenile justice. The FDLA Street Corp team will provide strategies for parents whose children are arrested or detained by police in Chicago and Cook County. AWP will show a mobile […]