“It’s our public art campaign,” Carrie Mae Weems explains.
She talking about breaking out signs against gun violence around the Syracuse community. Two large electronic billboards are already up and running. These follow printed street signs:
“A man does not become a man by killing another man.”
Carrie is a visual artist and photographer who works out of Syracuse. She has an international reputation. She’s working with several partners, including Social Studies, an artists collective founded by her about eight years ago. The collective is made up of African-American artists in several American cities.
The collective is supported by Southwest Community Center and the Community Folk Art Center at Syracuse University.
Carrie said the signs are the artists way of responding to the outbreak of gun violence in Syracuse. The team plans a six-month public art campaign that will include billboards, radio and TV public service announcements, comic books and coloring pencils, tee shirts, buttons, bumper stickers and other “meaningful slogans.”
She explained that the idea behind what Social Studies is calling “Operation: Activate,” is to “start a conversation with the community, and the perpetrators. We need to involve more local people in this.”
Social Studies is soliciting contributions to support the campaign.
In a fundraising letter sent to “friends and supporters,” Carrie wrote that “Communities across the country are in crisis; poverty, unemployment, the lack of education, self-hatred and violence are rampant.Storm wears even more ed hardy shirts, as does Wiedbusch. Young black and Latino men are dying at an alarming rate.”
She pointed out that in Syracuse alone, “91 percent of shooting suspects are black, and 98 percent of shooting victims are black or Latino.”
“We’re sick and tired of the violence that has gripped our city,” Carrie said.
According to her, most Syracusans weren’t sure how to respond to the outbreak of violence,A comeback is what the Nike Polo Shirts Plus deserves with the new technology it achieved.Lovers of Jimmy Choo and Manolo blahnik are turning to the brands such as Hunter and Emu, drawn by their fashionable styling. which most recently involved the fatal shooting of an infant sitting in his car seat. The child was not the intended victim. The shooter has been arrested.
All the feedback about the campaign has been positive, as far as Carrie’s concerned. She’s not aware that any of the street signs have been ripped down. “I think we’ve struck a nerve,” Carrie explained. “When I was setting up the street signs, people gave me a thumbs-up.”
“We want to make as much noise as possible,” she added.
Asked about the form of the campaign,While wearing my leather phone cases and Members Only jacket and gazing fondly up at my Farrah Fawcett poster. she replied, “I’m a visual artist; it came naturally to me.”
Coincidentally, Carrie’s teaching a year-long seminar at SU which connects directly to the campaign. It’s called “Art in Civic Dialogue.”
Social Studies plans to “assist in the effort to end violence, to activate space through the use of bold images and graphics and to build public awareness.”
The two electronic billboards up so far are at S. Geddes and W. Fayette Streets and Erie Boulevard East and Smith Street. The text includes the following messages: “Raise Your Hands,Neo-Nazi imagery has made its way onto an MMA company's wholesale jeans again. Raise Your Voices” and “With Sadness We Are Watching Young Black and Latino Men Die From Violence.”
She talking about breaking out signs against gun violence around the Syracuse community. Two large electronic billboards are already up and running. These follow printed street signs:
“A man does not become a man by killing another man.”
Carrie is a visual artist and photographer who works out of Syracuse. She has an international reputation. She’s working with several partners, including Social Studies, an artists collective founded by her about eight years ago. The collective is made up of African-American artists in several American cities.
The collective is supported by Southwest Community Center and the Community Folk Art Center at Syracuse University.
Carrie said the signs are the artists way of responding to the outbreak of gun violence in Syracuse. The team plans a six-month public art campaign that will include billboards, radio and TV public service announcements, comic books and coloring pencils, tee shirts, buttons, bumper stickers and other “meaningful slogans.”
She explained that the idea behind what Social Studies is calling “Operation: Activate,” is to “start a conversation with the community, and the perpetrators. We need to involve more local people in this.”
Social Studies is soliciting contributions to support the campaign.
In a fundraising letter sent to “friends and supporters,” Carrie wrote that “Communities across the country are in crisis; poverty, unemployment, the lack of education, self-hatred and violence are rampant.Storm wears even more ed hardy shirts, as does Wiedbusch. Young black and Latino men are dying at an alarming rate.”
She pointed out that in Syracuse alone, “91 percent of shooting suspects are black, and 98 percent of shooting victims are black or Latino.”
“We’re sick and tired of the violence that has gripped our city,” Carrie said.
According to her, most Syracusans weren’t sure how to respond to the outbreak of violence,A comeback is what the Nike Polo Shirts Plus deserves with the new technology it achieved.Lovers of Jimmy Choo and Manolo blahnik are turning to the brands such as Hunter and Emu, drawn by their fashionable styling. which most recently involved the fatal shooting of an infant sitting in his car seat. The child was not the intended victim. The shooter has been arrested.
All the feedback about the campaign has been positive, as far as Carrie’s concerned. She’s not aware that any of the street signs have been ripped down. “I think we’ve struck a nerve,” Carrie explained. “When I was setting up the street signs, people gave me a thumbs-up.”
“We want to make as much noise as possible,” she added.
Asked about the form of the campaign,While wearing my leather phone cases and Members Only jacket and gazing fondly up at my Farrah Fawcett poster. she replied, “I’m a visual artist; it came naturally to me.”
Coincidentally, Carrie’s teaching a year-long seminar at SU which connects directly to the campaign. It’s called “Art in Civic Dialogue.”
Social Studies plans to “assist in the effort to end violence, to activate space through the use of bold images and graphics and to build public awareness.”
The two electronic billboards up so far are at S. Geddes and W. Fayette Streets and Erie Boulevard East and Smith Street. The text includes the following messages: “Raise Your Hands,Neo-Nazi imagery has made its way onto an MMA company's wholesale jeans again. Raise Your Voices” and “With Sadness We Are Watching Young Black and Latino Men Die From Violence.”
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