CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Learn Promote Defend
Deadline: September 26, 2008
CALL TO ARTISTS DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 26 -THE CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS (CCHR) in Atlanta , GA seeks original artwork for Learn Promote Defend, an exhibition offered in conjunction with 60 Years of Progress…10 Days of Recognition, a 10-day commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Jurors inlcude Sylvie Fortin, Editor-in-Chief, Art Papers and Jodi Hauptman, Curator of Drawings, MOMA. Entries will be accepted in all two-dimensional visual arts media. Interested artists should interpret one or more articles of the UDHR (the preamble and 30 articles may be read at www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng) and provide a Resume and Artist’s statement. Selected artists’ works will be part of an exhibition and silent auction to be held on December 10, 2008 at Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta , GA. Six (6) accepted artists will be awarded the opportunity to participate in a billboard public art project in coordination with CCHR planned for the Atlanta Metropolitan area to begin in 2009. For Entry Form and Guidelines, please go to: http://www.cchrpartnership.org/UDHR60/JuriedArtexhibitionandSilentAuction/tabid/2996/Default.aspx
