Art 4 Emancipation.

Support Survivors of Human Trafficking, Order Gifts!

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Visit the Emacipation Networks' Made by Survivors Store by Clicking Here!

Today, right now, you can help end slavery directly by ordering holiday gifts from The Emancipation Network (TEN)! There are many gorgeous handicrafts to choose from in our online catalog: jewelry, clothing, wraps and scarves, stationary and journals, purses and bags and backpacks. Of of them made by hand, with loving care, by women and girls in our partner shelters around the world.

The TEN store is just a click away! Right here!

The Emancipation Network (TEN) helps end slavery by buying and selling handicraft products made by survivors of trafficking and girls at high risk for being trafficked. We are fighting slavery by providing economic alternatives.

Our profits go back into the purchase of more products or to fund rescue and trafficking prevention programs around the world. We are growing a sustainable business which provides ongoing opportunity and empowerment – not handouts – to survivors and high risk women.

Our ultimate goal is also to create a network of people who believe that slavery cannot be tolerated in our world. We need your voices too.

You can read here about some exciting progress TEN has helped initiate recently: Freedom Is Coming.

And here is an overview of how TEN is helping, every day, to end trafficking in human beings:

TEN helps fight human trafficking in 3 ways:

1) Providing Help to Survivors

When survivors escape or are rescued from slavery, they need a lot of support in order to reintegrate into society. Many families will not accept them back, and in some cases it is not safe for girls to live at home (if their families sold them in the first place). So for many girls, a shelter is the safest place for them to stay immediately after returning from their place of bondage.
Also, they can get services at a shelter, such as health care, HIV/AIDS treatment if needed, education, job training, and legal aid. These services would probably not be available if they lived at home. But no one wants to spend their whole life in a shelter. After a few years, most young women are ready to live independently, and want to find work. Finding work is difficult for anyone in depressed economies; it is more difficult for a trafficking survivor because of prejudice and limited education/literacy.

Handicraft programs offer these survivors a job, either long-term or short-term, that can give them the means to support themselves and live a meaningful, independent life. For those still living at the shelter, handicrafts programs provide therapeutical benefits, job training, literacy, social interaction, and a stipend for part-time work.

2) Preventing Trafficking of High-Risk Girls

TEN provides an economic alternative to prostitution for girls at high risk for being trafficked. We work with programs providing education and income-generating programs for girls who might otherwise be sold or tricked into prostitution. In one case, we provided funding for one of our partners to expand their handicrafts program to include mothers and the rest of the community.

Often a wage as little as a hundred dollars a year is enough to keep families from selling their daughters. Sadly, in some parts of the world, girls are not intrinsically valued. But when women become artisans, wage-earners, and business-owners, their status is greatly enhanced in the community. For example, one of our partner programs in Cambodia, AFESIP found that survivors where initially ostracized when they set up a workshop. But after several months of operation, they were accepted as contributing members of society.

What defines high risk? In some villages, there are almost no teen girls anywhere to be seen – all have been sold, or have gone voluntarily into prostitution for lack of other alternatives. In some cases, selling a daughter can make the difference between barely scraping by and complete destitution. In the worst cases, people have sold relatives or neighbors out of greed, to buy a new roof or TV set. The more girls are sold in a given area, the more this practice becomes socially accepted, and in the worst cases, girls are even bred for prostitution, or groomed from early childhood for this purpose. The death of a parent or the trafficking of another sibling puts a girl at particularly high risk for being trafficked herself. Low caste, refugee status, and poverty are also risk factors.

3) Supporting the Anti-Trafficking work of our Overseas Partners

Our handicraft purchases provide much-needed revenue to the anti-trafficking agencies where survivors and high risk girls live and work. The income generated through these programs goes to pay the artisans, and also helps pay for long-term care, education, medical and psychological services, legal aid, public awareness programs, trafficking prevention, and more.

To End Human Trafficking: 21st Century Sex Slavery and The Call to Freedom

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Presented by

Marbles Yoga and Art Gallery

This exhibition has been postponed. We will post a new call to artists later in the New Year.

THEME:

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The exhibit will explore the origins and impact of, and/or the routes to change regarding trafficking in humans for sex slavery as it is occurring in present time. “Origins” may mean speculation upon the roots of the phenomenon, including demand, images and expectations of women in popular culture, spiritual factors, sexual mythologies, etc. “Impact” may mean emotional, economic, psychic, physical, spiritual, social, aesthetic or any other consequence the artist perceives. “Routes to change” may mean hope to create a world in which human beings are not bought and sold. Artists are expected to inform themselves on some aspect of the phenomenon (please see the links on this page for resources) in order to create relevant art.

ELIGIBILITY:

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To End Human Trafficking: 21st Century Sex Slavery and the Call to Freedom is open to all artists, national and international, working in any media. Artwork will be selected by jury. One piece of artwork will be awarded a monetary prize to be determined at the time of entry selections. Other prizes may be awarded.

Judges

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The panel of judges will be announced at least six months prior to the exhibition.

THE EMANCIPATION NETWORK: TEN

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TEN works with a network of governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations that are providing prevention, rescue, shelter, education, therapy, health care, and economic self-sufficiency to trafficked women and girls around the world. TEN purchases handmade arts and crafts made by women and girls in protective shelters and communities, paying a fair price, then reselling the items without a middle man. Items are sold at house party/educational events, much like other home-based party marketing methods. The money from these sales then goes directly back to purchasing more items from the women and girls, this way ensuring an income to them and helping to keep them out of trafficking situations. TEN travels regularly to work with their partner organizations, attends national and international conferences, and provides education and resources to TEN ambassadors, who emphasize the real hope to free women and girls from sexual slavery by supporting their well-being in all areas of their lives.

IMAGE PRESENTATION:

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Artwork submitted may be represented by 35mm slides or prints (photographic or digital prints up to 8.5" x 11" accepted.) Each slide or print must be numbered and labeled with artists name, title of work, media, dimensions and price of work. The same information must also be written on the corresponding image list, including the price. Indicate top of work. Do not send glass slides, glass slides are almost always crushed in the mail.

DIGITAL: Artists who wish to submit digital image files instead of slides or prints may do so. Digital image files may be submitted on Mac or PC platform CD, DVD, TIF or JPG format are acceptable. No files larger than 20MB please. A reference sheet with thumbnail prints representing the images on the disc must be included. Next to each reference print write the artist, title, media, dimensions and price of work.

SLIDES: Artists submitting slides should use 35mm format. Do not submit larger transparencies. 35mm slides can be both projected and placed in our 8.5" x 11" slide viewer. Larger transparencies will not be projected or placed in the viewer. Be sure to write or label the slide with your name, title, dimensions and media. If your name is not on the slide and it is separated from your return envelope it may not be possible to find the envelope and return it to you. Remember, the first round of jury selection is not done with a projector, it is done with a light box and a magnifier. If your slides are underexposed or if the image is not clear you risk rejection on this basis alone.

PRINTS: Any type prints up to 8.5" x 11" in size are accepted. Be sure to include your name, title, dimensions and media on the back of the print. Prints that are faded, dull, lacking in contrast, too small and otherwise badly made will not properly represent your work.

DIGITAL SPECS [CD]: Digital files should be submitted in Mac format. If you work in PhotoShop on Mac save your images as TIF files and select Mac format when saving them. If you are in a second or third world environment yet have computer access but only to PC, then save as TIF and select PC format. Generally, files can be saved as TIF or JPG files. If you are able it is good to include two files of each image, one JPG low res, 72dpi and one high res TIF 300dpi file. The TIF file can be up to 20megs. This is good because if you are selected the low res file will be good for the web site and the high res can be used in print. These two files of the same image will count as one entry (similar to one slide). CD's must be accompanied either by sample prints of the work on the CD (as in prints above) or by a single sheet with small (approx. 2") prints of the entries. Next to the small images on the single sheet write the entry info, name, title, dimensions and media. The accompanying prints are required because once your CD is viewed the jury will refer to your prints rather than reload your CD each time they want to look at the work. If you submit a CD without the prints your work will not be properly represented to the jury.

DIGITAL SPECS [EMAIL]:Email entries can be used but are not encouraged as a CD submission will better represent your work. We can only handle low res files submitted via email. Files should be sized no larger than 7" @72dpi and saved as JPG format. If using PhotoShop save the JPG at image option 5 with format set to optimized. Entries can be submitted as an attachment within a single zip file, or pasted into the email window. Images may also be posted to a web page and the URL submitted in the email instead of the digital files. Include all the entry info, name, title, dimensions, media in the email message that accompanies the images or the web link. If you have ImageReady then chose Save for Web and select the option that gives you the clearest image at the lowest weight.

RETURN OF MATERIALS:

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A self-addressed-stamped-envelope (SASE) must be included with sufficient postage for the return of your submission materials. Artists outside the U.S. may include international reply coupons instead of stamps, or may add return postage cost to their entry fee at a rate of $.80US per ounce of mail.

NOTIFICATION:

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Artists will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance at a date to be determined. Notification will be made by mail with the return of materials using the SASE provided by the artist. Artists who do not include the SASE because they do not want their slide or print materials returned will receive notification via email. Artists who provide no return envelope and no email will be notified by mail only if they are accepted to exhibit.

FEES:

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There is a $35.00 entry fee for 1-4 slides, prints or digital files. If you wish to include more than 4, please include $5.00 for each additional slide. Details of artwork count as additional. Artists accepted to exhibit will not be charged additional fees of any kind. Please make check or money order payable to Marbles Yoga.

AWARDS:

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Artwork accepted into 21st Century Sex Slavery and the Call to Freedom will be hung or installed at Marbles Gallery from March 1-31, 2007. One monetary price will be awarded to a winning entry as determined by the jury. Other prizes may be awarded.

TERMS:

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All works in the show must be donated for sale. 80 percent of the sale price of each piece of art will be donated to The Emancipation Network; the gallery will retain 20 percent for space and services. Sale price determined by Margaret Howard, Karen Johnson, and Jane Ollendorf, show coordinators. Proceeds for entry fees will go 50 percent to The Emancipation Network and 50 percent to Marbles.

DEADLINE:

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The Final postmarked deadline is January 15, 2008. Entries must be postmarked by this date.

SUBMISSION FORM

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TO PRINT THIS FORM CLICK ON THE "SUBMISSION FORM" TITLE ABOVE

Name____________________________ Tel( )________________

Email___________________________________________________

Address________________________________________________

City_______________________________________

State or Provence ___________

Country (if outside U.S.)__________________

Zip or Postal Code _________

Image List: number slides or prints and list title, medium, dimensions and price below:

1.________________________________________________

2.________________________________________________

3.________________________________________________

4.________________________________________________

5.________________________________________________

6.________________________________________________

Six image maximum

Remember to mail by XXX XX, 200X:

1) Slides/Prints, Disc, or Email

2) Entry Form

3) SASE

4) Entry Fee or Request for Sponsor

Mail completed application and above materials to:

Marbles Yoga Studio

TEN Call to Artists

1905 Park Ave.

St. Louis, Missouri 63104

Questions may be directed to

Margaret Howard

art4emancipation@gmail.com

USA Phone: 314-225-6128