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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture > Exhibitions Gift of Life Project 2004From April 30, 2004 through May 30, 2004
The Gift of Life Project 2004 features collages created by The Boys & Girls Harbor art students from Genesis & P.A.C.T. programs, who learned about young people in Chad, Niger, and Brazil from research, presentations from UNICEF specialists, and photojournalists. The collages they created reflect the plights of their peers and were auctioned off to raise money to promote child advocacy, clean water programs, and medicine in those regions through UNICEF programs. (In the past, Harbor students have raised more than $20,000, of which 100 percent was donated to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that benefited youth in Sierra Leone, Angola, and India.) Their artwork has been exhibited internationally at the UN’s World Conference in Durban and nationally at the United Nations, Sotheby’s, Inc., Rush Arts Gallery, and the Blue Heron Arts Center. This year the students’ collages will be exhibited at the Schomburg Center, the Romare Bearden Foundation, the United Nations, and Lincoln Center’s Cork Gallery. |
