Image: Chad Kouri _ Chicago, IL
Share Your Beauty
A You Are Beautiful Exhibition & Workshop
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco CA
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94110
January 14th - February 25th, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18th, 2012, 6:30pm
Main Gallery, Cash Bar and Light Snacks / $5 admission
Free for participants of the exhibtion
Open Gallery Hours
Mon: 5:00-9:45pm
Tue-Fri: 10:00am to 9:45pm
Sat: 10:00-5:30pm
MCCLA Page
Facebook Event
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Isn’t it what’s on the inside that counts?
Project Gallery / Inti Raymi
Saturday January 28th & February 11th, 2012
Guest Artist, Porous Walker, will create dynamic iterations of the You Are Beautiful message in the form of an interactive, on-going installation in the MCCLA Project Gallery.
Jan 28, Saturday (2-5p) 5$ | Silkscreen Workshop: Join us for an introductory demonstration on silkscreen techniques, using an original image from the You Are Beautiful project. Each participant will create a print to take home. Limited space, RSVP by Jan 21 to galleryasst@missionculturalcenter.org or 415.643.2775
Feb 11 (Saturday) (2-5p) Porous Walker invites “YOU” to (re)activate his work by bringing it into the streets! For more information and to confirm participation, please contact the MCCLA Gallery at galleryasst@missionculturalcenter.org or 415.643.2775
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This exhibition will celebrate the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts 35th year.
The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) was established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the Latino cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of the Chicano, Central and South American, and Caribbean people. MCCLA makes the arts accessible as an essential element to the community's development and well-being.
You Are Beautiful is a simple, powerful statement aspiring to create moments of positive self realization. The intention behind the message is to be received as a simple act of kindness, an innovative approach to a fundamental concept.
The vision of the You Are Beautiful campaign is to focus on the utmost truth that unites us as a people: each individual is intriguing, complex and beautiful. With this realization, we are impelled to pass it along. Not following the status quo or daily norm, the objective is to look for a new manner to engage one another on a deep meaningful level, creating a new methodology of unified social consciousness.
The You Are Beautiful message has spread throughout the world, dispersing hundreds of thousands of stickers, and generating countless community based projects to beautify neighborhoods in cities globally. The project itself is made up of an anonymous collective keeping the focus on the message rather than the participants. The project and the message are completely open. Anyone can participate, engage, and act. Empowering each of us, to choose optimism with clarity, and remind ourselves, that you are beautiful.
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