Art Responds is an intentional conversation within and through the people of our community using art as a common language.
Students, experienced artists, educators, performers, writers and thoughtful people of all creative abilities are invited to participate. Our community is simply anyone who connects with us - neighbors, friends, family and guests.
Art Responds is not a competition. Quality of the work is measured not by an artist's talent or skill but by effort and sincerity in their messages.
Each project concentrates on a central subject. Artists research and interpret aspects that speak to them, and exhibit their work in a group show and our online gallery. The project presents a broad spectrum of creative viewpoints and welcomes visitors to participate by contributing art and written feedback of their own.
Art Responds to History
Art Responds to History is our first public project, focusing on the Holocaust in Europe 1933-1945. Artists are asked to explore how these distant events still resonate within ourselves and our communities today.
There is a vast array of content for artists to investigate. The Holocaust is importantly identified with Jewish people but its lessons are universal, carrying timeless themes of human experience. There is much to learn on a large scale - the world at war - down to small personal gestures allowing for hope and survival. Artwork generated and displayed in this exhibition will help in its own way to keep the stories of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust alive, to help the world remember.
A key toward shaping the future is recognizing patterns of the past. Toward this, Art Responds to History encourages participants and visitors to engage in cross-cultural, interfaith and intergenerational dialogue about and beyond the central subject.
This art project is one way for a community of many voices to not only teach history and examine our collective memory of it, but to understand each other in the present and look forward together.
Please consider participating in Art Responds to History. We all have something to teach, and we are all better artists than we realize.