The Super Bowl is today. Downtown has been alive with activity for days. Barricades. Policemen with dogs. Bustle on the sidewalks. Helicopters. Camera crews. The Blimp. A $17.00 Super Bowl mug. But on a deserted lot in Roosevelt Row Art District, The Scarlet Cord offers hope and healing to the wounded and curious… A prostitute…
Art collaboration with Shared Hope International, StreetLightUSA, and The Scarlet Cord! Take the Do 1 Thing Challenge! The Scarlet Cord 813 North 1st Street, Roosevelt Row Art District Phoenix, Arizona Sponsored by StreetlightUSA
The Scarlet Cord is an educational tool. Through the installation, people learn that children don’t volunteer to be trafficked; they are forced. It would be wonderful if even ten perpetrators changed their minds and decided not to buy sex after the Super Bowl. It would be even more exciting if 100, or even 1,000, perpetrators…
Rozlind Saumalu on The Scarlet Cord It’s sad how these kids are manipulated into this life. Prostitution is no longer on the streets, it’s everywhere: in our schools, shopping malls, and neighborhoods. Lea Benson, President and CEO of StreetLightUSA
FOX 5, KVVU TV in Las Vegas features The Scarlet Cord in Phoenix for the Super Bowl: Scarlet Cord exhibit draws attention to victims of sex trafficking CBS 5, KPHO in Phoenix also ran a feature on The Scarlet Cord and child sex trafficking: Artist Hopes Exhibit Creates Awareness of Child Sex Trafficking
MLive.com features The Scarlet Cord being brought to Phoenix for the Super Bowl: ArtPrize installation in Phoenix for Super Bowl to raise awareness of sexual trafficking
Branded (detail), Branding marker on canvas, 2014 A 3-year-old dropped off in a room full of men…FOR SEX…in America. Where is the public outcry?