It Gets Better
I don’t understand hate. There is no food reference today because I cannot find a way to incorporate humor into this issue.
Please take advantage of the Call for Entries from the 13 Forest Gallery to take a stand against hate and help let someone out there know that It Gets Better. The deadline is January 19th, but you can email entries…so don’t delay.
CALL for ENTRIES: It Gets Better/Make It Better
Social change starts with the individual. One gay teenager jumps off a bridge and thousands are motivated to share their coming-out stories.
One person can also serve as a positive symbol to effect social change. A woman keeps her seat on the bus and a social revolution is born.
By working to better the world, you actually make things better for yourself. Studies of collective action have shown that when people identify with a particular cause, and work towards social change, the change often occurs within—people feel legitimized. Empowerment is not necessarily even reliant on the movement’s success: victory occurs in the very struggle of self-expression and self-empowerment.
Entries for It Gets Better/Make It Better should explore this theme of how the individual exists within and can affect the community. One is many.
ELIGIBILTIY: Artists 18 yrs old or older from all of the United States, figurative or abstract two-dimensional art.
DEADLINE: January 19, 2011
ENTRY FEE: $15 per application
VENUE: 13FOREST Gallery, 167A Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA 02474
JUROR: Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director, Griffin Museum
COMMISSION: 45% to artist, 10% to benefit P-FLAG: Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays