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Recent Works By
Sonya Lucas
HOLLOWS & HAIRDRYERS
Electronic Media
August 1 - 30
Opening Public Reception Friday, August 22 – 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
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Different Voices and
Common Experiences
Sponsored by Very Special Arts & Mental Health Association
"Little Faith" by Ed Lewis
Sept. 5 - Sept. 27
Opening Public Reception Friday, Sept. 12 – 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
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Humans for Sale
"Humans
for Sale" explores the sad hopes, loyalties, and betrayals that constitute
human trafficking. The focus is Southeast Asia, arguably the world's center for
sex trafficking. The photographers include Southeast Asia based photojournalists
Michael Flamm, Masaru Goto, and Nicolas Lainez, and US based photographers Neal
Newfield and Wen-Fei Hsu. Writers for the exhibition include Jim Keim, Susan
Newfield, and Andrew Barnes. Students from the West Virginia University's,
Vietnam Initiative Club will also exhibit photographs made during their recent
trip to Southeast Asia.
Humans for sale does not shy away from the beauty of Southeast Asia nor the
ugliness of trafficking, and not infrequently the images are a blend of these
contrasting energies. The viewer is hit with the visual equivalence of a sucker
punch with beautiful images that first entice and then slap common
sensibilities.
This exhibition has been shown in Washington, D.C. and in the San Francisco
Area. Sponsors for the exhibition are the Southeast Asia Children’s Project
& the Pacific Links Foundation. Photographs will be for sale. All artists’
profits will be donated to the Pacific Links Foundation and Project ADAPT, two
organizations that fights human trafficking in Southeast Asia.
In
a "fish bowl" debt bounded sex workers in Cambodia await their
purchase.
They are selected by the numbers pinned to their blouses.
This photograph was taken in secret.
Photographer: Neal Newfield, copyright 2006.
Oct. 3 - Oct. 27
Sponsored by WVU Vietnam Initiative
Opening Public Reception Friday, October 3 – 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
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Bare Form
Sponsored by Monongalia General Hospital
Oct. 31 - Nov. 29
Opening Public Reception Friday, November 7 – 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
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Gallery of Gifts
Sponsored by Monongalia Arts Center
Dec. 5 - Dec. 20
Opening Public Reception Saturday, Dec. 6 – 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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Monongalia
Arts Center will be closed from
December 23 - January 11
and reopen on
Monday, January 12, 2009 at 11 a.m.