Guns in the Hands of Artists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns in the Hands of Artists write by Jonathan Ferrara. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Guns in the Hands of Artists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1990s, the New Orleans murder rate exploded. In 1996, 350 people were killed—the highest number in the city’s history, and the highest rate in the nation. In response to this crisis, gallery owner and artist Jonathan Ferrara and artist Brian Borrello, launched a powerful project: Guns in the Hands of Artists. Over sixty artists, including painters, glass artists, sculptors, photographers, and poets, used decommissioned guns taken off the city streets via a gun buyback program to express a thought, make a statement, open a discussion, and to stimulate thinking about guns and gun violence in America. As gun violence continues to devastate the nation on a daily basis, Guns in the Hands of Artists reemerged in 2012 as a community-based social activist art project that has since traveled to six cities across the US. Using art as a mirror for life and interweaving the works of thirty diverse artists with the voices of seventeen national thought leaders, this book is an important outgrowth of the exhibition and an extension of its efforts to employ art as a vehicle for dialogue, as a call to action, and—ultimately—as an agent of change. Essays by: Walter Isaacson, Senator Tim Kaine, Lupe Fiasco, Richard Ford, Joe Nocera, Trymaine Lee, Lolis Eric Elie, John M. Barry, Dan Cameron, Lucia McBath, Harry Shearer, Jonathan Ferrara, Brian Borrello, Maria Cuomo Cole, Michael Waldman, E. Ethelbert Miller, Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Captain Mark Kelly.
This Is Not a Gun
This Is Not a Gun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Is Not a Gun write by Cara Levine. This book was released on 2020-04. This Is Not a Gun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Giving Up the Gun
Giving Up the Gun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Giving Up the Gun write by Noel Perrin. This book was released on 1979. Giving Up the Gun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lord Hideyoshi, the regent of Japan at the time, took the first step toward the control of firearms. It was a very small step, and it was not taken simply to protect feudal lords from being shot at by peasants but to get all weapons out of the hands of civilians. He said nothing about arms control. Instead, he announced that he was going to build a statue of Buddha that would make all existing statues look like midgets. It would be so enormous (the figure was about twice the scale of the Statue of Liberty), that many tons of iron would be needed just for the braces and bolts. Still more was required to erect the accompanying temple, which was to cover a piece of ground something over an eighth of a mile square. All farmers, ji-samurai, and monks were invited to contribute their swords and guns to the cause. They were, in fact, required to. -- from publisher description.
Chicks with Guns
Chicks with Guns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chicks with Guns write by Lindsay McCrum. This book was released on 2011-10-01. Chicks with Guns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a portrait collection of women and guns with subjects expressing their passion for firearms.
Tap Dancing America
Tap Dancing America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tap Dancing America write by Constance Valis Hill. This book was released on 2014-11-12. Tap Dancing America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all the verve and grace of tap itself, Constance Valis Hill offers a sweeping narrative, filling a major gap in American dance history and placing tap firmly center stage.
