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Sharing Dreams | Compartiendo Suenos at the Chicago Peace Museum
Over 500 attended the Shared Dreams exhibit at Chicago's Peace Museum. The exhibit opened on Friday October 6 and ran through November 12. The exhibit was extended an additional week to run concurrently with the Humanity Festival.
Sharing Dreams was created to provide U.S. and Cuban designers a way to reach across borders to form meaningful connections with each other through a collaborative design process. Now in it’s third year, this successful program has selected 36 designers, 18 designers from Cuba and 18 from the U.S., to design posters and to write commentaries under the overriding theme of Sharing Dreams.
Their common goals of greater peace, understanding and new friendships have produced dramatic works of beauty and compassion that provide a glimpse into the future of relations between Americans and Cubans.
Last year the theme was Sharing Dreams: Dreams of Peace and 2006 brought Sharing Dreams: Love Conquers All. In June 2006, AIGA XCD produced the Shared Dreams exhibit as part of the 8th International Digital Design Exhibit in Havana, Cuba. Some of the U.S. Designers traveled to Havana and experienced firsthand the richness of their new friend‘s culture and warmth. This retrospective exhibit documents the first three years of this ongoing project.
The collection of original posters has traveled to Los Angeles, Icograda Design Week in Seattle, San Diego and Maracaibo, Venezuela. Plans are set for the collection to be exhibited in Vancouver, New York and Miami.
Several of the original posters are available for sale as special limited edition prints. Proceeds from the sale of the prints are donated to the Cuban Artists Fund (CAF).
For more information about the exhibit or to purchase posters
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Images
Signed, numbered, limited edition prints to benefit the Cuban Artists Fund.
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2006 artists: Angel Alonso, Cuba and Marc Oxborrow, U.S.
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2005 artists: Yoana Yelin, Cuba and Stuart Alden, U.S.
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2004 artists: Eduardo Molto, Cuba and Andrea Dezso, U.S.
Sharing Dreams was created to provide U.S. and Cuban designers a way to reach across borders to form meaningful connections with each other through a collaborative design process. Now in it’s third year, this successful program has selected 36 designers, 18 designers from Cuba and 18 from the U.S., to design posters and to write commentaries under the overriding theme of Sharing Dreams.
Their common goals of greater peace, understanding and new friendships have produced dramatic works of beauty and compassion that provide a glimpse into the future of relations between Americans and Cubans.
Last year the theme was Sharing Dreams: Dreams of Peace and 2006 brought Sharing Dreams: Love Conquers All. In June 2006, AIGA XCD produced the Shared Dreams exhibit as part of the 8th International Digital Design Exhibit in Havana, Cuba. Some of the U.S. Designers traveled to Havana and experienced firsthand the richness of their new friend‘s culture and warmth. This retrospective exhibit documents the first three years of this ongoing project.
The collection of original posters has traveled to Los Angeles, Icograda Design Week in Seattle, San Diego and Maracaibo, Venezuela. Plans are set for the collection to be exhibited in Vancouver, New York and Miami.
Several of the original posters are available for sale as special limited edition prints. Proceeds from the sale of the prints are donated to the Cuban Artists Fund (CAF).
For more information about the exhibit or to purchase posters
___________________________
Images
Signed, numbered, limited edition prints to benefit the Cuban Artists Fund.
Fig 1
2006 artists: Angel Alonso, Cuba and Marc Oxborrow, U.S.
Fig 2
2005 artists: Yoana Yelin, Cuba and Stuart Alden, U.S.
Fig 3
2004 artists: Eduardo Molto, Cuba and Andrea Dezso, U.S.
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