Dream Seeding Press Release
16th December 2009
For Immediate Release:
Contact:
Christopher Bednash, Lead Organizer
Dream Seeding, for Compassionate Communities
909 East University Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
734-996-5962 ~ info (at) dreamseeding.org
www.dreamseeding.org
Dream Seeding, for Compassionate Communities Seeks Art that Envisions a More Beautiful World
Ann Arbor, Michigan December 16, 2009–Dream Seeding, for Compassionate Communities All Ages Art Show is seeking art that, in any way imaginable, helps to envision a more peaceful, socially just, and ecologically healthy world, for an exhibition in Ann Arbor this March 2010. The creative work can be in any feasible media and be from individuals of any age or level of artistic sophistication. If the work is sincere and, in some way, helps people to see that another, better world is indeed possible, it most likely will find a place in this show.
Dream Seeding, for Compassionate Communities will be shown in the Michigan Union (530 S. State St.) in Ann Arbor from March 2nd until March 26th. We will be seeking submissions through February 14th. We will a host a reception with music on Saturday, March 20th, from 6 to 9 pm.
This will be our third Dream Seeding show, after Dream Seeding, for Future Generations (in May 2007) and Dream Seeding, for a Better World (in February 2009). While the first Dream Seeding was a hit with over 50 works of art from over 30 artists, the show earlier this year became an amazing out pouring of well over 100 paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media, collage, fiber art, woodwork, and more– with contributions from hundreds of children, teens, and adults from around Southeast Michigan.
Dream Seeding 2009 was undoubtedly buoyed to greater heights by the upwelling of hope arising from the election and inauguration of President Barack Obama. As we go deeper into the transition to a new era, the hope of before seems replaced now by uncertainty in the face of both the enormity and the complexity of the problems in our world. Yet in this still more open political environment, it is as critically important as ever for creative people of compassion to use the arts to seed our dreams with visions of what more can be. We need our creative visionaries to further inspire people’s movements to both change our communities from the grass-roots and to strengthen the resolve of our elected leaders to truly put the interests of people and the planet ahead of those of money and power.
The organizers of Dream Seeding, for Compassionate Communities All Ages Art Show believe that any of us can offer an idea, insight, or vision of a more beautiful world—and that each of us has something to contribute.
Dream Seeding art shows are creations of Artists for Peace, a small group of activists dedicated to promoting peace through art shows, skillshare workshops, and “activist” art projects. Dream Seeding is co-sponsored by Eugene V. Debs Cooperative House, which has a decades long tradition of supporting the activist and artistic projects of its members. The lead organizers of Dream Seeding are Christopher Bednash, an artist and clerk at Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and the Ann Arbor District Library and Jeff Tenza, an electrical engineer turned organic farmer, designer, and writer.
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