The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery of the
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and the
Montana Human Rights Network presents an evening with human rights experts
exploring the exhibit Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, a collection
of works of artists who have transformed thousands of anti-Semitic and racist
books into an uplifting exhibition. A dynamic variety of works, many by
well-known, national artists, is unified by a common challenge: to respond to
hate with the transformative power of art.
The Anya and Andrew Shiva
Gallery will host Rachel Carroll Rivas, Co-Director of the
Montana Human Rights Network, and an expert on domestic hate groups.
The
art, ideas, and activities of the project Speaking Volumes: Transforming
Hate will be explored. As the number of hate groups in the United States
continues to grow, the exhibition’s content is more relevant than ever, and is
essential to the project’s ambitious goal to deepen understanding of our
vulnerability to prejudice and our capacity to overcome it.
Speaking
Volumes: Transforming Hate began when the Montana Human Rights Network in
Helena acquired 4,000 copies of white supremacist books from a defecting leader
of one of the most virulent neo-Nazi organizations in the nation – World Church
of the Creator. The Network, drawing on broad-based community support, partnered
with Helena’s Holter Museum of Art and commissioned 60 artists to creatively
recycle the books into works of art. The highly acclaimed exhibition has
traveled nine years, with accompanying curriculum and lesson plans to support
public education.
The touring exhibition features the works of 32
artists and encourages viewers to engage with issues of prejudice,
discrimination, and identity, including interaction with those who are perceived
as “different.” This exhibition is visually powerful and thought provoking, and
easily engages people of all ages.
For more information
please contact:
The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery John Jay
College 860 11th Avenue New York, NY 10019 gallery@jjay.cuny.edu 212-237-1439 www.shivagallery.org
Gallery
Hours: 1- 5 PM, M – F
About John Jay College of
Criminal Justice: An international leader in educating for
justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York
offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of
15,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations. In
teaching, scholarship and research, the College approaches justice as an applied
art and science in service to society and as an ongoing conversation about
fundamental human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of law. For
more information, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu. |