ArtPrize Seven: Hometown Hero
Hometown Hero premieres in September at ArtPrize 7!
An interactive healing installation
Hometown Hero by Pamela Alderman
30,000 Red String Bracelets!
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.
ArtPrize Entries Focus on Human Trafficking
Yesterday, Fox 17 News featured Pamela’s The Scarlet Cord and Gretchyn Lauer’s entry, Outcry, which expose and raise awareness of human trafficking. Thankfully, the message is resonating with ArtPrize visitors and the public, and Outcry is even in the Top 20 for the second round of voting as a possible winner in the 2-D Category.
The Scarlet Cord Voted Top 25 Installation!
The ArtPrize Top 20 Finalists were announced yesterday for the second round of public voting which will determine the winners in four categories. Congratulations to those artists!
Thank you to all who volunteered, donated, visited, supported, and voted for The Scarlet Cord. Over 25,000 red string bracelets were given to visitors and The Scarlet Cord was voted a Top 25 Installation!
Radio Interview with Andy Rent
Jessica Rowland of Women at Risk International and Pamela were interviewed by Andy Rent just prior to ArtPrize 2014 about The Scarlet Cord. Hear the short, six minute interview:
ArtPrize 2014: The Scarlet Cord – Lighting the Night…
…at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
Pamela’s ArtPrize 2014: The Scarlet Cord
The Scarlet Cord
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
September 24 through October 12, 2014
As visitors step inside a 40-foot storage container filled with thirty doors, they enter a secret world. This dark world crosses religious and social economic borders to sell our children for sex. A twisting scarlet cord depicts the trauma bond that connects the children to their traffickers. The weathered doors represent these abused children whose youthful minds have become knotted. Pamela’s art—dedicated to these suffering children tethered within the sex industry—calls for compassionate action.
Partnering with Women At Risk International:
