AFHR harnesses and gives voice to the creative energies of artists and activists in the cause of raising human rights awareness around the world. Working with like-minded groups and individuals, AFHR creates campaigns embracing film, music, visual arts and literature which are designed to inspire, educate and ultimately be a call to action that touches hearts and minds which is where truly, all meaningful change begins.
Visual Arts are perhaps one of the oldest forms of Man’s creative expression. Long before film, CD’s, DVDs, radios and televisions, artists expressed themselves visually. Artists in the Renaissance gave us paintings, etchings, sculptures and visions that brought in a new Age of Enlightenment. Artists for Human Rights, knowing the power of the visual artist from painters to sculptors to photographers, brings together these artists and ignites them in the name of basic human rights.
Already this has exploded into an internationally touring human rights art exhibit seen in New York, Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Florence, Italy. Artists creating pieces inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have captivated audiences around the world. With their message of peace, tolerance and human rights, Artists for Human Rights Visual Artists is at the precipice of a new renaissance, a renaissance of human rights.
Artists for Human Rights (AFHR) continues to raise awareness through our Art and Advocacy series featuring leading artists using their art to bring awareness of pressing human rights issues. Our guest lecturers include award-winning photographers, sculptors, painters, and multi-media artists whose impactful work is etched in our consciousness pushing us to stand up for human rights and demand change.
Artists have the ability to touch society so profoundly that positive change can come about as a direct result. Our greatest thinkers throughout history have always been the greatest advocates of human rights because they know so well how vital it is that the individual’s freedom of self expression is protected. Therefore I have formed Artists for Human Rights to give voice and bring about greater awareness among all peoples of the world of all of our human rights as laid out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Because artists have the ability to elevate the culture, we as artists, uniting to make known the human rights of all peoples of the world, can bring about greater peace and tolerance.