What is Violence Transformed?

Violence Transformed is an annual series of visual and performing arts events that celebrates the power of art, artists and art-making to confront, challenge and mediate violence in contemporary society. Based in the center and surrounding neighborhoods of Greater Boston and drawing upon the creative energies of artists throughout New England, Violence Transformed documents the ways in which our diverse communities harness art’s potential to effect social change and materially transform our environments.

Violence Transformed 2010: Celebrating the Transformative Power of Art
Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House, Boston
Monday April 26 – Friday May 7, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday April 29, 2010

The signature event of Violence Transformed is an exhibition of works in varied media held at the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston and scheduled in concert with the annual Victims Rights Conference of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance. The exhibition draws the attention of government officials and the general public to art and artists as crucial sources of societal and community transformation. In 2010, this now two-week long event will serve as the centerpiece of a series of exhibitions of visual and performing art located at other venues throughout April and May.

Now in its fourth year, Violence Transformed also represents a unique and continuing collaboration among artists, activists, museum professionals, academics and community service providers from diverse segments of the Greater Boston area. We share a conviction that art and art-making are essential to the well-being and vibrancy of our communities.

For information about this year’s participants in Violence Transformed,
please check out “Who We Are”

From shrines to peace gardens, murals to performance art, quilts to video installations, Boston communities are remarkably creative in using art to express collective horror, commemorate victims, foster healing and imagine alternatives. The curators of Violence transform draw upon these resources to select works that represent art’s transformative relationship to violence and offer insight into the range of artistic strategies at work in the area.

To learn more about submitting works for consideration, please see the Violence Transformed 2010 Prospectus and visit our Call to Artists.

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