OurStoryIsOne
Parivash and Nasser Rohani founded a global education and art movement through social media entitled #OurStoryIsOne. The grass-roots, growing movement honors ten Bahá’í women who, after months of torture and imprisonment, were executed one by one in a square in Shiriaz, Iran because of their religious identities. Parivash’s personal experience fueled her desire to organize women around the world to express their anger, solidarity, courage and hope through visual and performing arts. The movement is powerful, the artwork arresting, and the demand for greater human rights in Iran and around the world clear.
Reuse, Repair, Reconsider
Maine Artist Lesia Sochor’s Reuse, Repair, Reconsider exhibit explores the healing power of restoration. Lesia writes, A humble act born of necessity, repair at one time was a common sense, commonplace task among the populace. But due to the ever increasing addiction for more, for newer, fixable goods are discarded, further threatening the environment. I use a needle and thread to investigate mending as an intervention, as metaphor, as a call to action—not only to restore material things, but to mend the fractured parts of ourselves, and the divisiveness, cruelty, and injustices of our ruptured world—one stitch at a time.
