Gracious and dedicated Women at Risk volunteers showed up every day at The Scarlet Cord installation to tie red string bracelets on ArtPrize visitors. By last Friday evening, with another two days of ArtPrize 2014 yet to go, all 30,000 available bracelets had been given out! People kept asking for them because they wanted to continue building Circles of Protection around at risk children.
ArtPrize 2014 has been a history making event at every level: for the winning artists, for the public, for survivors of human trafficking and those who help them, and for this artist personally. Response to The Scarlet Cord has proven that raising awareness of human trafficking is an important step in ending it and providing hope and healing for those who have survived it.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this all happen. I’ll be lying low for a while now but this blog will still be updated.
