SHOW FORGIVENESS - SPEAK FOR JUSTICE - AVOID THE IGNORANT
7’ x 40’ - Mural by the Fall 2010 Mural Painting Class/ Central CT State University
Jeff Glowa, Alyssa Lennehan, Brenda Marousek, Zoe Nicole Shaw, Jackie Sidor, Wiley Akin, Marissa Blaszko, Andrew Cusson, Ally King, Rachel CabaniolNEW BRITAIN HERALD - Friday, November 12, 2010 / Page1
NEW BRITAIN — About a dozen Central Connecticut State University art students used their paint brushes to bring attention to their frustration over what they see as society’s Islamaphobia, and their work was unveiled Friday.
Borrowing a quote from the Muslim Quran, “Show Forgiveness, Speak for Justice, Avoid the Ignorant,” the students used a combination of Arabic script and wild-style lettering to create a 40-foot mural for display at one end of the Student Center’s exterior. Designed as a portable banner, the artwork, promoting religious tolerance, can be used as a backdrop or display at other venues or conferences on or off campus.
“Their work speaks to an issue of building solidarity between human beings and not allowing ourselves to be divided by hatred or religious differences,” says Professor of Art Mike Alewitz....his students’ decision to focus on religious tolerance came from their discussion about the controversy over plans to build a mosque and Muslim cultural center near ground zero in lower Manhattan...
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