A Thousand Hands: A Million Stars

Jane Mills Atwood, Carla Ciuffo, Rebecca Hoback, Andreea Lee, H. Gerrey Noh, Denise Ritter, Brandy A. Rogers | September 18

Topic: Art | Knowledge Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced | Location: Center for Visual Arts – 620 Grove Place

A Thousand Hands: A Million Stars is a creative, collaborative effort uniting visual art, poetry, music, and song created and performed all by women as a vehicle to bring awareness, empowerment, and a voice to those that have been rendered silent and hopeless by their experience in human sex trafficking. In doing so, the women artists are partnering in a cause championed by multiple organizations dedicated to the healing of survivors of trafficking. Outside of awareness, the artistic, literary, and musical project is designed to illicit a genuine, emotional response and empathy for an often misrepresented and misunderstood issue. An in-person experience of the cross-collaborative efforts may serve as a force for change in perceptions, support, and help for the survivors of human sex trafficking. The artists of A Thousand Hands: A Million Stars have taken inspiration through survivors’ experiences and stories, contributing to personal narratives of their journey in, through, and out of human sex trafficking in hopes of providing visibility to the invisible victims and the power of recovery and healing. This project is interactive, community-driven, and collaborative and speaks to civil and city issues with human trafficking.

Exhibit Objectives:

· Bring awareness, empowerment, and a voice to victims of trafficking through art

· Illicit a genuine, emotional response to those who are often misrepresented and misunderstood

· Provide visibility to the invisible victims

About the Artists

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Jane Mills Atwood

Jane Mills Atwood is an artist and singer who incorporates musical aspects of words in her writing. Ms. Mills Atwood holds degrees from Kent State University, including a Masters in Vocal Performance. She currently serves as adjunct faculty at The University of Toledo, maintaining a private voice studio.

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Carla Ciuffo

Carla Ciuffo is a New Yorker transplanted to Nashville and has lived in the south for the last nine years. Her work lies somewhere between illustrative narrative, photography, and collage. Carla is responsible for creating the artwork for this project that ranging from 2D to augmented reality and a short film that tells survivor stories through poetry, dance and vocals.

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Rebecca Hoback

Rebecca Hoback trained at the Milwaukee Ballet School and the UNC School of the Arts. She worked as an apprentice with the Montgomery Ballet before moving to Nashville to work as a second company member at Nashville Ballet. There, she began work with Banning Bouldin and joined New Dialect in June 2013.

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Andreea Lee

Andreea Lee performed a variety of chamber music and solo recitals in churches, concert halls and private venues around the world with a repertoire that ranges from Baroque era to Contemporary. Andreea Lee holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from the National University of Music from Bucharest, Romania and a Master’s degree in Music Performance from the University of Toledo.

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H. Gerrey Noh

H. Gerrey Noh is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music at Kent State University. Her PhD degree in music theory and composition is from Kent State University. She also holds an MA in music theory and ab MM in piano performance from Kent State University.

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Denise Ritter

Denise Ritter is an Associate Professor of voice and opera at the University of Radford in Radford, Virginia. She has been a performer internationally and throughout the U.S. with extensive Oratorio experience. In addition to being an active performer, Denise is also a sought-after clinician, teacher, presenter, and author.

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Brandy A. Rogers

Brandy A. Rogers has studied various forms of dance since the age of 3. From Ballet to House, her love to learn is constantly evolving in her own movement language. She is currently dancing her second season with Blue Moves Modern Dance company of Nashville, Tennessee.

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