Designed in support of National Crime Victims Rights Awareness Week and now in its second year, Violence Transformed represents a unique collaboration among artists, activists, museum professionals, academics, and community service providers working in the greater Boston area. We share a belief in the transformative power of art and art making, and in artists’ ability to confront, mediate and challenge the prevalence of violence in contemporary society. Violence Transformed celebrates the diversity of visual cultures engaging with issues of political, sexual, domestic, and community violence that exist in New England.
Participants in Violence Transformed endorse an ecological understanding of violence and violence prevention and believe that both the causes of violence and the ability of societies to overcome violence reside in the dynamic relationship that exists between a community and all of its members. Building and strengthening that relationship can effect social change. Art is perhaps the most effective form of intervention we have, and one of the keystones in building healthy environments. |
Violence Transformed2008 is co-sponsored by the Cambridge Health Alliance Victims of Violence Program, the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, the Artists Foundation, the Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocacy Program of Wheelock College, the Cloud Foundation, the Fine and Performing Arts Center of Roxbury Community College, the Institute for Art and Civic Engagement of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museum of the National Center of African American Artists. As we draw closer to our opening date, we anticipate that other organizations will join us in sponsoring and participating in this unique event.
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Artistic Director:
Jonathan Shirland, Faculty at Lasell College, Newton, MA &Former Curator of Public Programs at The Royal Academy of Arts, London
Performing Arts Director:
Marshall Hughes, Associate Dean & Director of Fine and Performing Arts, Roxbury Community College
Media Sponsor:
Nat Creole Online
Artist: Michele Demers. Fragmentatio
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Mary Harvey & Barbara Hamm, Founding& Acting Directors, Victims of Violence Program, Cambridge Health Alliance
Janet Fine, Executive Director & Chelsea Lettieri, MOVA Intern, Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance
Gail Bos, Community Artist & Early Childhood Educator
Ann Tobey, Associate Professor and Director Juvenile Justice & Youth Advocacy Program, Wheelock College
Kathleen Bitetti, Community Artist & Executive Director of The Artists Foundation
Barry Gaither, Director, Museum of the National Center of African American Artists
Stella McGregor , Executive Director & Alison Kotin,Programs & Outreach Coordinator, the Cloud Foundation
Ron Wilhelmsen, Senior Graphic Designer, CBS-4
Carol Daynard, Community Artist
Susannah Lawrence , Community Artist & Coordinator of Teen Visual Art Curators, the Cloud Foundation
Andrew Barco, Community Engagement and Partnership Coordinator, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Margot Hurley, Community Artist |
