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Compassion Speaks: Women Artists for Animals
Join Compassion Arts for a powerful and inspiring afternoon featuring presentations by artists/curators Jane O'Hara and Janell O'Rourke on the work of photographer and animal advocate Jo-Anne McArthur as well as other women in the visual arts. Poet and educator Gretchen Primack will emcee the event and read a selection of her poetry.
Jo-Anne McArthur is this years Artists for Ahimsa honoree and will be presented our award/painting by Jane O'Hara at this event. McArthur is a critically acclaimed and thought-provoking photographer as well as a globally recognized speaker, photojournalist, and advocate for animals. She is the creator of the short film Promises, the author of Captive and We Animals, and the subject of the documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine.
Proceeds from this event will go to McArthur's current work in progress, UNBOUND, a photographic project celebrating women working to help animals worldwide.
Women Artists for Animals is a three-part series for Compassion Speaks, a new program from Compassion arts, to acknowledge, support, and advance the community of women artists who help animals by using their artistry as a window through which the culture may bear witness to our treatment of other species and see animals as the soul-baring, kindred individuals they truly are.
About Compassion Speaks
The 2019 Compassion Arts Festival will launch Compassion Speaks, an outreach program from Compassion Arts in which four or five special guests give voice to compassion in action through the arts and education. Guests share their work in relation to a specific topic by contributing a short talk, performance, or presentation. The program will be an integral part of Compassion Arts going forward and will take place in multiple cities.
Image Above © Jo-Anne McArthur
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LocationThe Wild Project Theater (View)
195 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009
United States
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