Lafayette artist Amy
Guidry has been selected as a participating
artist for “Learn-Promote-
Defend,” an exhibit held by
the Center for Civil and Hu
man
Rights. The exhibit will also be
auctioning the artwork and sharing
the proceeds with the artists
and the CCHR.
This exhibit will be in
conjunction with a 10-day program
of events titled “60 Years of
Progress ... 10 Days of Recognition”
which commemorates the
60th anniversary of the signing of
the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. It is designed to
raise awareness of the declaration,
the first international recognition
that all human beings have
fundamental rights and freedoms.
The document, shepherded
through its many versions
by former First Lady Eleanor
Roosevelt, continues to be a living
and relevant document today.
This 10-day program/celebration
will take place throughout the entire
city ofAtlanta and the exhibit
and silent auction will be held at 7
p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, at the
Mason Murer Fine Art gallery.
Guidry’s work was selected
from numerous entries received
by a panel of internationally recognized art professionals
and curators in response
to a call they issued.
Jurors are Sylvie Fortin, executive
director and editor of Art Papers
magazine; Christopher
Hauck, Atlanta painter; Jodi
Hauptman, curator of drawings
for the Museum of Modern Art;
and Louise E. Shaw, curator of
the Global Health Odyssey Museum
of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Guidry’s paintings include
“Choices,” “Justice for
All,” “Void Where Prohibited”
and “Everything’s Coming Up
Roses.”
All are from her social
commentary series which was
displayed at the LafayetteArtAssociation’s
gallery. Selections for
the show were required to relate
to the articles of the declaration.
“I was thrilled they
asked me to participate,” Guidry
commented in a recent telephone
interview. “In a juried competition
there are always thousands of
entries and it is difficult to get
chosen. There are a lot of good
artists competing and I didn’t expect
to get in.
“And being affiliated
with a rights organization of this
calibre is indeed an honor. It is a
benefit that works both ways: it
helps me get exposure as an artist,
and I am helping expose and promote
their ideas to the public.
“I took several social
and political issues which I read
about in the papers and tried to
get people to think about them in
a different way,” she said of the
inspiration for her social commentary
series. “A painting can
often grab someone’s attention
faster than just print and if they
look at it, they will think about it
and possibly want to get involved.
So there will be positive results!”
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