Featured Artist: International Print Portfolio: Artists' Expressions of Human Rights
International Print Portfolio: Artists’ Expressions of Human Rights
The Human Rights Exhibit is a traveling exhibit offered by the Michigan State University Museum.
On December 19, 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a list of human rights it believed all countries in the world should respect. Many countries in the world have based their own Bills of Rights on the UDHR. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the UDHR and to raise awareness of human rights issues, the Artists for Human Rights Trust (Durban, South Africa) published the International Print Portfolio that is featured in this exhibition.
The Portfolio is made up of monochrome wood/linocut prints illustrating various articles of the UDHR. Artists from 25 countries that participated in the project, including Iran, Cuba, South Africa, India, Mozambique and Tibet. The works are striking in the variety of artistic styles they portray, as well as in their emotional and sometimes disturbing subject matter. Each artist brings a unique national and political perspective to issues of human rights that are still being faced globally today.
For more information, please visit http://museum.msu.edu/museum/tes/index.htm.
About the Artist
The exhibit features works by a range of artists from all over the globe.