You are invited to MAXWELL TIES

For immediate release: (8/13/98)

Contact: Lakshmi Jha at the Gang Crime Prevention Center <312-814-5093> or Shanti Foundation for Peace <847-492-0955>

You are invited to MAXWELL TIES,

a joint project of Shanti Foundation for Peace and the Gang Crime Prevention Center.

The student photographers are not gang members but are students at risk. Carlos Gomez, the instructor for this project, told us, "I brought the students to Maxwell Street because it is a living classroom filled with culture and history." --SB

Attorney General Jim Ryan's Student Covenant for the Future Program and Shanti Foundation for Peace invite you to the opening presentation of MAXWELL TIES, original photography by program participants from Kelly High School in Chicago.

Monday, August 24, 1998
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
at the James R. Thompson Center, 100 West Randolph Street in Chicago

Students have worked very hard for the past several months learning the fundamentals of photography and investigative journalism. The focus of this exhibition, Maxwell Street Market, holds historic and cultural significance as a peaceful and fertile center of activity for immigrant groups throughout this century.

The main objectives of the program are to:

offer students a means to develop skills that help them deal with problems and challenges through a process that encourages creative problem solving and cooperative learning
provide substantive art experience for each student which will include photography techniques and skills
develop a model, regarding themes of nonviolence and how these can be implemented through art practice in other schools

Please come show your support and enjoy the fresh point of view of Maxwell Street Market by some of Chicago's newest photographers.

For more information, contact Lakshmi Jha at the Gang Crime Prevention Center, at (312) 814-5093, or Shanti Foundation for Peace at (847) 492-0955. Visit Shanti's web site at www.dls.net~shanti.

This program was generously supported by The Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and The Illinois Attorney General's Gang Crime Prevention Center. Additional support came from A Camera Store.

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