PRESS RELEASE FROM ASHEVILLE MUSEUM:
aSHEville Museum is stepping up to the plate to address a growing human rights issue with their newest exhibit entitled “Bought and Sold: The Voices of Human Trafficking”. This multimedia exhibit features the work of artist Kay Chernush and her innovative approach to photography, in which she utilizes collage and constructed imagery along with sound in order to dignify the trafficked persons.
aSHEville Museum is honored to be the latest of the many installations of Kay Chernush’s series “Bought and Sold: Voices of Human Trafficking” exhibit. Her work, and the awareness it has brought to human trafficking, has been on view at The Hague (Netherlands), Amsterdam, Singapore, Mumbai, Phnom Penh, New York City, Washington D.C., and Atlanta GA.
“Bought and Sold” will be on exhibit at aSHEville Museum from June 1-August 31st, 2016.
Everyone is invited and welcome to the OPENING RECEPTION on Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at the aSHEville Museum from 5:30 7:00 p.m. Come meet and speak with Mamie Adams, Asheville’s new Stop Human Trafficking Coordinator for Our Voice, as she shares with us the truth of trafficking here in our area.
aSHeville Museum is committed to raising awareness about the growing prevalence of human trafficking, which is now the the fastest growing criminal enterprise globally. The museum’s gift shop features many products for sale that directly benefit human trafficking survivors.
The exhibit “Bought and Sold: Voices of Human Trafficking” is the first of three exhibits aSHEville Museum will be presenting in 2016 to address human trafficking.
About ‘Bought and Sold: Voices of Human Trafficking’
The photographic series “Bought and Sold: Voices of Human Trafficking,” by Kay Chernush, speaks to the experiences and suffering of the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children caught up in slavery’s web. The exhibit asks you, the viewer, to consider their plight from their perspective. Looking outward through the victim’s eyes, the images challenge us to imagine the daily horrors, violence, desperation and abilities of their lives and to take action.
About Kay Chernush
Kay Chernush is an awardwinning photographer with more than 30 years of experience in commercial and fine art photography. In 2005, an assignment for the U.S. State Department brought her face to face with the evils of human trafficking and modern slavery. Challenged and appalled by this gross human rights abuse, Kay began working with antitrafficking organizations and survivors around the world. She gradually developed an innovative approach that uses collage, constructed imagery and sound to dignify trafficked persons and reframe how their stories are portrayed. To broaden the scope of her work around trafficking, Kay founded ArtWorks for Freedom,a nonprofit organization that uses the power of art in all its forms to fight modern slavery.
About aSHEville Museum
aSHEville Museum is a women’s cultural museum with a mission to contribute to the creation of more just and equitable world through its collection of intimate exhibits which range from historic to contemporary in scope, and local to global. The museum focuses on the richly varied achievements, experiences, and challenges faced by women and girls.
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