Working With Artists is hosting a group exhibition of Colorado artists benefitting Ethiopian Orphan Relief who is dedicated to improving the lives of Ethiopian orphans.

This event will benefit the construction of a facility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to care for orphaned teenaged girls through a partnership with Children's Heaven.

Children's Heaven is a non-profit organization committed to serving teenaged girls who have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS, and to help meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of these vulnerable children.

Children's Heaven believes it is necessary to create an environment of hope and respect for teenaged girls, where they can have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and provide practical tools for positive change in their lives. Orphaned teenaged girls are perhaps the most vulnerable segment of Ethiopian society, because they are at a higher risk of sexual assault or rape, and they are most susceptible to HIV/AIDS.

If raised in an environment that will help them develop a positive self-esteem, achieve the means to financial independence and educate them in HIV prevention, these girls can have an enormous postive effect in Ethiopia. The primary goal of this program is to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission among vulnerable teenage girls by empowering them to rise above their current situation.

right: Lee Lee - Provider (detail) oil on canvas

Jacob Baynham -
Brothers Near Roadside Bomb - Bharak, Afghanistan

Lee Lee
Fatehpur Sikri Burial Ground, India

Kirsten Baynham
Firelight, Burma
Proceeds will benefit the Lao Women Weavers organization

Artists:

Joseph Amram
Colfax

Jacob Baynham
Eyes of Afghanistan
go to Jacob's blog

Kirsten Baynham:
Faces of Asia
Laos, India, Burma & Afghanistan

Beth Daniel
Buenos Aires & Cairo

Lee Lee
Tibet, China, India & Bosnia

Izabela Lundberg
Survivors

Victoria Seligman
Portraits of Hmong Women & Children
Sa Pa, Vietnam

Exhibition:
March 1-31, 2008
420 Downing Street, Denver

Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 22nd 2008, 6-9pm

Overview of entire exhibit

The Cradle Project will open on Saturday, June 7th in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This historic and unprecedented art installation –two years in the making– will feature over five hundred cradles and cribs made by artists from around the world using solely scrap and recycled materials. Using the symbolism of empty cradles to represent the lost potential of an estimated 48 million children orphaned by disease and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, The Cradle Project is designed to provoke art into action. The ultimate mission is to promote awareness about this crisis and to raise financial support to help feed, shelter, and educate these forgotten children. Set against a towering backdrop of falling sand, these empty cradles will speak volumes about the permanence of loss, as children’s lives and potential - these cradles - become buried.

Visit the Cradle Project website

View Lee Lee's Cradle