AN EXHIBITION FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHS BY LYNSEY ADDARIO, MARCUS BLEASDALE, RON HAVIV, AND JAMES NACHTWEY
Congo/Women is produced by Art Works Projects and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media Columbia College Chicago.
credits:
Curator and Co-Director: Leslie Thomas
Creative Advisor and Co-Director: Jane Saks
Exhibition Design: Art Works Projects (Greg Doench, Leslie Thomas) and Real Design Associates (Jurgen Riehle and Margot Perman)
Graphic Design: Real Design Associates (Jurgen Riehle and Margot Perman)
Translation: Anne Alma, Julia Pourtois, Nita Evele
Printing: Portland Color
Fabrication: Duvall Designs
Voice Recording: Cheryl Lynn Bruce
Sound Design:
Website Design: Compound Design
Digital Exhibit Editor: Eric Argiro
Post Production: Union Editorial
Original Music: Mario Grigorov, Pamelia Kurstin, Jaron Lanier, Sussan Deyhim
Special thanks: Kristin Ensch, Emma Ruby-Sachs, Jane Sachs, and Sara Slawnik
The CONGO/Women team is grateful for the support of the many individuals and organizations which have assisted this work, including:
Jane Cohan
Christian Del Sol
James Haygood
Ken Horowitz
Steve Kinney
Sloane Klevin
Patricia MacDonald
Jayme McLellan
Harley Meyer
Mariana Tosic
Leslie Thomas is an architect, curator and the founding Executive Director of Art Works Projects, an organization which uses visual advocacy for human rights crises. New and ongoing projects include CONGO/Women, bringing awareness of the impact of war on the women and girls of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the DARFUR/DARFUR exhibit, which she began out of a desire to bring the individual faces of the humanitarian crisis in western Sudan to the world. Exhibiting at such venues as the Los Angeles Hammer, the Boston ICA, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and FORMA in Milan DARFUR/DARFUR has brought its large scale projections to the streets of over thirty of the world’s major cultural centers. A founding principal with LARC Inc. and LARC Studio, a national architectural practiced based in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, she is a graduate of Columbia University and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. An Emmy award winning art director, her work has been the recipient of grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, the Humanity United Fund, and the Graham Foundation. Leslie is committed to the use of art and design for public good.
Jane M. Saks is the Founding Executive Director of the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago. »More
