Social Justice: It Happens to One, It Happens to All

Barbara Horiuchi With Liberty and Justice for Some. Tar paper, 12 frames, audio unit, 48 x 65 inches, 2009. “With Liberty and Justice for All”…at one time in my young life I believed those words from the Pledge of Allegiance. But then I found out about the WWII experience of my parents, grandparents, other family members along with 120,000 west coast Americans of Japanese ancestry who were forcibly incarcerated in U.S. relocation camps. Two-thirds of those incarcerated were American citizens. The U.S. government gathered data on them and they were assigned prisoner numbers. Given the current prejudicial rhetoric leveled against groups of people based on their religion, orientation, ethnicity, or gender, this type of injustice must never happen again in our “land of the free.” 122

Social Justice: It Happens to One, It Happens to All

Published on Aug 9, 2016

Gutfreund Cornett Art

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Exhibition catalog for Social Justice, curated by Karen Gutfreund and Sherri Cornett of Gutfreund Cornett Art with Sandra Fluke as the special recognitions juror. to be held at Saint Mary's College Museum of Art from September 18 to December 11, 2016. GCA looks to employ artwork as weapons in the fight for human rights against violence and the ongoing wars. GCA asked artists for work in all media that speaks to and illuminates the ongoing conversation around race, conditions of the working class, disparities in global wealth, power, education, shelter, access to food, water and health services, immigration issues, criminal (in)justice, women’s rights, subjugating ethnic groups and the gender queer in the modern world. There are 43 artists in the Museum galleries and an addition 46 in a slideshow that will be played on a monitor in the gallery and all is available online.

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