Blend Studio to Host Safe Haven Family Shelter Art Exhibit
Seeing Ourselves: Photographs of Safe Haven to be displayed in Nashville's Downtown Arcade
Image taken from the workshop on April 30th, 2008, shows a Safe Haven youth resident planning a photograph with Andee Rudloff.
Safe Haven Family Shelter proudly announces Seeing Ourselves: Photographs of Safe Haven, will be displayed at Blend Studio. The exhibit will be displayed through October 31st, 2009. Artist talk on Saturday, October 10th from 1 pm to 3pm.
Blend Studio, a local art studio, opened its doors in June of 2009. The main focus of the gallery is to organize community-based, contemporary art exhibits and to provide a space and opportunity for artists to impact the community. "The Seeing Ourselves exhibit is a step forward to develop a dialogue about issues, dealing with homeless families," stated co-owner of Blend Studio, Ben Vitualla. "By hosting the exhibit in the Downtown area of the Arcade during the popular First Saturday Gallery Crawl, we hope that this project will gain new audiences and raise awareness about the impact of Safe Haven in homeless families' lives."
In April of 2008, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts partnered with Safe Haven Family Shelter to provide cultural enrichment through a community art program offered to its residents. Nashville-based photographer Allen Clark and the Frist Center's outreach educators led a two-week photography workshop for participants, who ranged from age three to 65 years, to learn about composition, visual storytelling and photographic techniques. On the final day of the workshop, each resident was provided with a Holga 120N camera and were invited to create and capture the compositions they had planned.
"The photographs selected for Seeing Ourselves represent life patterns and happenings that are experienced by people living in a variety of circumstances,' said Andee Rudloff, community relations manager at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and curator of the exhibition. "Instead of simply documenting the conditions of homelessness, the images remind us that we all share common hopes dreams and goals."
Blend Studio is located at 79 Arcade, Nashville, TN, 37219. Hours of operation: Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., First Saturdays 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and by appointment only. Visit Blend studio online at http://blendstudio.wordpress.com
Safe Haven Family Shelter empowers homeless families with children to live independently through social, financial and faith-based guidance. Safe Haven is the only shelter program of its kind in Middle Tennessee that serves homeless families as a whole unit, with a comprehensive approach to address the underlying causes of homelessness and help each family regain self-sufficiency. Safe Haven Family Shelter is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has served the community for over 25 years. For more information, please visit www.safehaven.org.
SUPPORTED BY:
Safe Haven Family Shelter
The William N. Rollins Fund for the Arts of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission
Tennessee Arts Commission
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
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