23 June 2019
Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering! Rescue the poor and needy! Deliver them from the power of the wicked!–Psalm 82:3-4
Make art about our failure to care for those who need us most.
Image by Aamir Mohd Khan from Pixabay
9 April 2019
Make art about poverty, about the scars poverty leaves, about the cost of poverty on the rest of society, about institutionalized poverty.
24 May 2017
“When someone steals another’s clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.” ― Basil of Caesarea
Make art about thieves, thievery, about thefts of the spirit.
1 May 2017
Read a story this morning about lunchrooms shaming poor children.
I cried for an hour. The scars of shame run so deep, follow us into adulthood, undermine the beauty and power of who we are at every turn, if it’s not healed.
“I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.”― Judy Collins
Make art about childhood shame, about seeing that hurt child in your adult eyes, about healing shame.
8 March 2017
Make art about collective power.
9 March 2017
Make art about the violence of poverty.
17 August 2016
For more information, visit Talk Poverty
Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line—$23,834 for a family of four—in 2014
Percent of people who fell below twice the poverty line—$47,668 for a family of four—in 2014
Percent of people who fell below half the poverty line—$11,917 for a family of four—in 2014
Percentage of children under age 18 who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of African Americans who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of Hispanics who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of non-Hispanic Whites who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of Native Americans who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Percentage of people with disabilities who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Make art about poverty.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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