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Signs and portraits humanize homelessness, inspire change
Publisher/s
The Daily Campus
Author/s
Melanie Jackson
Abstract
Signs are on display from the “HOME? Humanizing the Homeless: Portraits and Signs” exhibit. “Shipwrecked”, “Food, please help”, and “Spare change, please” were just some of the signs gallery patrons read in an SMU art exhibit last week that captured the stories of hundreds of homeless individuals all over the world.
SMU and Dallas community members also participated in a dinner last Wednesday and discussed Meadows’ latest exhibition, aimed at destigmatizing homelessness. “Art does have the power to get people to shift,” said exhibit artist and SMU advertising professor Willie Baronet.