A Call for Art: Her Water, Her Future

by | Jan 16, 2018 | Call for Art, Exhibition, WCANH

Water

Here is a unique opportunity to express your own passion regarding the importance of water as a life sustaining necessity on a global, national, personal, or environmental level through your art.

It is not accidental that this exhibit will be taking place during the month of March. Since 1993, World Water Day has been an annual event celebrated on March 22, 2018. In addition to the exhibition reception on March 8, we will have a special event on World Water Day, March 22. Lisa McAllister, Director of Communications and Reporting for the Concord, NH based non-profit, ‘The Water Project,’ and fellow WCA/NH member Christine Destrempes, Artist and Executive Director of ‘Art and Dialogue- Pathways for Engagement’, will be our guest speakers for this event.

To learn more about World Water Day go to www.unwater.org. To learn more about ‘The Water Project” go to thewaterproject.org. To learn more about ‘Art and dialogue go to artanddialogue.org.

On behalf of ‘Mother Earth’ and all her living subjects, I invite you to check out some of the following inspirational articles listed below as well- but most of all, submit some art for this exhibition.

I invite you to follow your passion!

—Carole Groenke, Exhibition Coordinator

“The Human Right to Water and Sanitation (HRWS) was recognized as a human right by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 28 July 2010. …The Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948 and International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 1966 implicitly recognized the HRWS.”

WIKI

Human right to water and sanitation

“Clean water: A Right, Not a Privilege”

Sarah Ferguson

author, from her July 13, 2017 article for UNICEF/USA.

“Access to safe water is foundational to the development of any community.”

Peter Chasse

President and Founder of ‘The Water Project’, from Lisa McAllister’s July 8, 2017 article for the Concord Chamber of Commerce

“It is such a necessary fight. It’s clean water, you know? I couldn’t just give up and go home and take a bath and not think about where that water came from.”

Eryn Wise

from her Dec. 9, 2016 interview by Abby Haglage, ‘Water is Life: Four Months at Standing Rock for ‘Lenny’.

“Dying is a continuum. If you don’t get fed for seven, eight days, and you’re a child, you are dying. If you have 11 people- like we took out of a nursing home- severely dehydrated, you are dying.’

Breanna Edwards

quoting Carmen Yulin Cruz, mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, explaining how dying works to Geraldo Rivera in her Oct. 2, 2017 article for “The Root’.

“The Water Project’s mission is to provide clean water to communities in sub-Saharan Africa.”

Sarah Cahalan

July 18, 2017, on-line article for New Hampshire magazine ‘Good Cause of the Month: The Water Project’

See Prospectus  under Exhibitions Calls For Entry, for details, instructions, and a link to the entry form.