Semester Project Idea- Umradha S.

For my semester project, I am going to be doing a PowerPoint presentation on “Art Works for Change” an organization that does exhibitions featuring several women artists focusing on various themes. These themes including domestic violence and hardships women of color face. 

“Art Works for Change creates traveling exhibitions of national and international scope, addressing issues that are both urgent and universal. The data show that our work reaches substantial audiences, cutting across the divisions of race, class, age, and culture more thoroughly than do traditional museum art exhibitions.” I’ll be focusing on two exhibitions in particular “The True Stories Project” which is an exhibition on the reality of child sex trafficking. As well as an online Exhibition collaboration with Ethnic Arts Foundation which is an exhibition regarding domestic violence and the struggles these women in India and other countries in South Asia. As a young woman who has seen the reality and consequences of domestic violence, I believe in the efforts that this organization is doing to help empower those women. They take pieces of art done by these same women and use it as a tool to help empower them and other women.  Art seemed to not only be a way of escape for them, as they could express themselves as they wanted too, but as a way to find peace and happiness.