"Reaching Out: America"
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"Reaching
Out: America" Monument Design
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for "Reaching Out: America" Child Abuse Monument
Give
Kids A Hand Vision and Participation
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on Dr. Michael C. Irving, Ph.D.
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photos or interviews contact Janice Caine-Brewster,
Chair, Friends of Reaching Out America" artist@reddingmgt.com
510-851-0410; or Dr. Michael
C. Irving, Artistic Director, "Reaching Out:
America" mci@irvingstudios.com.
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| Dr. Irving on a ladder in front of one of the sculpted Monument
figures. | The first bronze Monument figure completed
in September 2007. | The final wax and plaster
monument model inside Dr. Irving's studio. |
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| Michael C. Irving, Ph.D. is an international lecturer and presenter
on issues of psychology and art. | Michael sculpting
the first maquettes for a Child Abuse Survivor Monument. | Dr.
Irving will work with survivors to sculpt the details on his quilt square. |
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| Dr. Irving will work participant quilt squares into the full
size wax and plaster models of "Reaching Out: America. | There
is much detail cleaning up and sculpting after the quilt squares are working into
the monument quilt borders. | Dr. Irving will
have a shared hand in each collaborative quilt square of the monument figures. |
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| Helping
Hands for Child Abuse |
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Respect
and Self Respect
Let me be the boss of me!
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my wishes for a bright future for all children.
Hayden Christensen |
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I am now a grandmother
who survived this sexual abuse.
You too can survive, be strong. | It's cruel.
It's Horrible. It's Child Abuse. So stop it!
Flynn, age 10 |
It Took 40 Years of Fear
Before I was Set Free |
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No Childabuse, Peace Love.
Luke, age 9 | Peace
@ home. Let's work it out. | All people should
be free from abuse, like a bird free from a cage.
Hanna, age 9 |
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| No more childabuse. | You will be
protected! | Child abuse will die like many of its
victims |
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| Dr. Irving is seeking HandPrint contributions from schools,
agencies, churches and youth groups from across America. | The
interactive quality of touching and exploring the Monument is part of it power. | The
"Give Kids a Hand" HandPrint drawings and messages make a statement
about our collective intent to prevent child abuse
and become a national visualization that is a force of change and empowerment. |
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| Quilt
Squares from Dr. Irving's First Child Abuse Monument |
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I've been to Nam and I've been through child abuse and child
abuse was tougher | I know I am not Shameful. | Shame
- Fear
Guilt - Silence
Sexual abuse is too heavy for any child to carry
through life. |
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| Quilt square of a 9 year old. | Quilt
square of a 4 year old. | Quilt square of a 70
year old. |
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| As parents you kept your children safe from the evil that haunted
your lives. Mom and Dad, thank you for teaching me to love. | May
hope be passed through every hand. | My father
was abuse and I wasn't. The cycle stopped. The dawn of a new generation, The dawn
of new hope. Let tomorrow's sun set on an era of peace. Zachary, age 11. |
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| Beyond this point there be monsters. | The
pain of my childhood is today's woman.
NO! | Quilt
square of sculptor Michael C. Irving, Ph.D., dedicated an infant who was raped
and murdered and to the innocence of childhood lost. |
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| | Awakening to the possibilities of joy.
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| Participants
in Monument Creation |
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| Sculpting team working on original Monument
form in Michael Irving's studio. | Dr. Irving will
take a plaster cast of the hands of survivors of child abuse and work with them
to create their individual quilt squares. | Close of of making
a plaster cast of a hand. |
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| Participants in quilt square workshops will use words and images
around the sculpted hand to tell their stories. | Quilt squares
are on the Reaching Out: America Child Abuse Monument will from across the US. | The
quilt squares can speak the heart and soul of participants. |
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Janice Caine-Brewster,
Chair: Friends of "Reaching
Out: America" Contact:
Janice Caine-Brewster
"Reaching Out: America"
Child Abuse
Monument
37 Bay Park Terrace
Alameda, California
94502
artist@reddingmgt.com
510-851-0410
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