2023 Reclaiming Voices Survivor Art SHow
Amor Propio
Juana
Juana Duran Charicata is an undocumented/DACA artist, born in Cheran, Michoacan, Mexico and currently teaches art and is a muralist in the city of Chicago. Her body of work ranges from collaborative murals with her students to large-scale sand and acrylic paintings.
Luke 12:7
Vicki
Luke 12:7 - The hairs on your head are numbered. Sometimes I need a reminder how intimately God knows me…
Medusa
Sarah
After my sexual assault in 2021, I began to relate heavily to the story of Medusa, and with this piece, I wanted to show how the experience can change you and make you feel like a monster…
Self Embrace
Lea May
My name is Lea May. I am an artist, a survivor and an advocate for inner healing.
Untitled
Anonymous
This painting represents being trapped in time and unable to feel; a representation of fading from your day to day life, yet masking it all because you're afraid to be vulnerable due to everything that has happened in your life.
Even Pain Can Be Repurposed
Brianna
I am not proud to be a survivor. I've spent years in silence, hoping that I wouldn't survive just so I didn't have to deal with the burden. However, I resolved in my heart that the reason I continue to wake up daily is because my life’s work must be exponentially greater than the pain…
Where Is My Wolf Pack
Anonymous
Misunderstood.
Beauty & The BEast
Michelle
Beauty is found within.
Kate
Victory March
As we move forward through life, we must walk with a humble heart, but also with a crown of victory knowing we are loved and adored by God.
Scrape People
J.R.
I imagine people of all colors, nationalities, and religions coming together in peace. I want life to be safe and peaceful for all.
Scrape People
K.N.
Untitled
Anonymous
Inheritors
Sara
Sara Sadat is a visual artist strongly influenced by the community, especially scenes from her upbringing of the Arboretum Village in Lisle, Illinois, creating abstract and expressionistic paintings, installations and photographic works…
Let Freedom Ring
Debra
Art has saved me from doubting myself, falling between the cracks, blending in, and giving up. I fell in love with the freedom it promised, and the overflow of possibilities…
Chatter Brain
Maria
Rising out of the chaos- is my theme of my life. Be the change you want to see…
Jesus Was Naked, Too
Mary Anne
Jesus Was Naked, Too is my personal testimony of the heart of Jesus towards every survivor of sexual exploitation, idenitfying with our shame on the Cross, so that in him we may learn to joyfully and victoriously despise our shame, not ourselves.