Artists for Immigrant Rights, a group of photographers, will hold a photo sale and exhibition on Sunday to raise money for vulnerable immigrant communities in the Philadelphia area. The event will feature work by over 20 local photographers, with proceeds going to support immigration organizations via the Bread & Roses Community Fund.
Artists for immigrant rights: Photographers to share and sell their work on Sunday to raise money for vulnerable communities. Organizers say it's part show, part community gathering, part act of solidarity, an event that unites people who believe that art can protect and strengthen.
The event takes place from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Fleisher Art Memorial in South Philadelphia. In the past year, Artists for Immigrant Rights and Bread & Roses have raised more than $100,000 for grassroots organizations in the region. The money goes to support legal aid, organizing efforts, emergency assistance, and frontline defense for immigrant families. The goal on Sunday, said David Acosta, one of the organizers, is of course to sell as many pictures as possible.
Those sales and matching grants are what brings in money. Bread & Roses then makes distributions to groups like VietLead, the Vietnamese-led organization, and Juntos, the Latino advocacy group based in South Philadelphia. A photograph purchased at the show becomes more than art on a wall, Acosta said. It becomes advocacy, or emergency support, or legal representation.
The impetus for Artists for Immigrant Rights, he said, was the shock over the Trump administration's move into major American cities, some of which faced a surge of federal troops and immigration agents under the banner of increased public safety. His work documents social-justice movements, including issues of mental health, poverty, disability and the old and sick. Recently he photographed the struggles of undocumented immigrants in the Philadelphia area.
Atienza was first inspired to consider those causes years ago, at James Madison University, during a class on protest and social movements during the 1960s. He later worked at Project Home in Philadelphia, where the walls displayed photographs of homeless people. The organization emerged as photographers noticed the strain that Trump immigration policies were causing for local advocacy organizations, Finkle said in an interview.
All the stuff that ICE was doing, perpetuating on the immigrant community, the horror of it all, we felt we needed to try to raise some money for groups doing the work. The event is a chance for people to meet and buy from acclaimed local photographers, with proceeds going to help immigration organizations via the Bread & Roses Community Fund. The photographers donate their work, time, and costs.
About 20 photographers will be stationed at individual tables, showing their pictures and answering questions about how and why they do what they do. Photos are priced at an intentionally affordable $20 to $200. People who go to the free show can meet and buy from acclaimed local photographers, with proceeds going to help immigration organizations via the Bread & Roses Community Fund. The photographers donate their work, time, and costs.
About 20 photographers will be stationed at individual tables, showing their pictures and answering questions about how and why they do what they do. Photos are priced at an intentionally affordable $20 to $200
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