Princeton Day School to Host HomeFront Art Exhibit and Sale
Princeton, NJ – Princeton Day School students are teaming up with HomeFront, a local non-profit seeking to end family homelessness, by hosting an exhibition and sale, Meanings of Home, featuring original works of art, poetry and sewing by homeless women and children. Their joint mission is to bring about greater awareness to the plight of homeless families who live in close by neighborhoods.
“It’s important to put real faces behind social issues,” says Ruth Ann Traylor, HomeFront’s ArtSpace Director who conceived the exhibition. “Most people don’t realize how easily a family can slip into a situation where they can’t make ends meet and don’t have any safety net to keep them spiraling into homelessness. Also as you spiral down, you feel like you’re valued less,” Traylor says. “This program helps break down the barriers of class and race. So the artist can see herself not as a homeless person, but as an artist.”
Over the course of the last several months, HomeFront children and adults have participated in the series of in-house workshops covering a variety of media: painting, sculpting, poetry, sewing and more. Art created from this healing program will be featured in the exhibition, Meanings of Home at the Princeton Day School, 650 Great Road, Princeton, NJ 08540, November 21 – December 15.
The workshops and exhibitions are funded through a generous grant by the Bunbury Foundation.