The Weight of a Story

Well hello world I am excited because today we start installing some art at the Johnson County Resource Library which is basically in the Kansas City Metro area on behalf of artists helping the homeless and it's going to be pretty exciting. We were reached out to by the Johnson County Library asking us if we would be interested in doing an exhibit in their spring season and we jumped at the opportunity. Art is at the founding core of who artists helping the homeless are. Car Woo is our founder. He is an immigrant from China, came to the United States when he was 18, went to college, eventually became a artist/ gallery owner and then through his work with homelessness just on the street feeding the homeless literally just feeding the homeless. He was asked if he would be able to develop a program that would help people out on the street and he said I'm an artist sure I can. So in order to continue where we came from art has become something that a lot of the residents who live in our respite in transition houses take part in on a regular basis a form of self-expressionist form of finding out digging into who they are, what they've dealt with in their life, what they're trying to overcome and in some ways creates new ways to express themselves. So from March 14th until May 3rd we will be exhibiting at the Johnson County Resource Library off 87th Street in Overland Park, Kansas. That is if you live in the Metro, Kansas City area or are going to be in the Metro, Kansas City area over the next month to two months please stop by and check it out. I think you'll see some really incredible work. We have art done primarily by the residents but we were also fortunate enough to have a supporter of our program named Mandy Stockman who is an artist, she is a teacher, she is a coach, she is a mom, she is a sister and she took around 50 to 60 pictures of every resident in our program who raised their hand and turned them into some of the most striking prints you will ever see. So please if you get a chance I implore you, come visit the library, bring your kids, you are going to get to learn about what we do and who it impacts and hopefully to see these faces, these faces of change through all of these young men that they are more than just a person who is living on the street. They are more than someone who made a few bad decisions. They are people who have a ton of worth, value, hope, opportunity, so many different things and so many different ways that they can impact and make a difference in our society if given a chance. So please come learn more about us. You can always visit our website www.ahh.org to learn more but please this is going to be something special. Peace!