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

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