About the Responding to Our World Exhibition

Guilford Art Center's third international exhibition devoted to the letter arts, engages its viewer in a dialogue about the world in which we live. Through our individual and collective voices, we are connected to each other, not only as members of society but also on a very human level. It is a pleasure to present this exhibition, examining a global perspective on politics and culture, through this unique form of artistic expression.

EXHIBITION JURORS:

Maureen Squires & Thomas Ingmire
Placing equal emphasis on the importance of subject matter and execution, Exhibition Jurors, Thomas Ingmire and Maureen Squires have carefully chosen the selections presented in Responding to our World: Words, Images Gestures. We are also thankful to Letter Arts Review for choosing to share this collection and its sentiments with its international readership.

Awards were given to the following artists:

Monica Dengo, Marco Ambrosi, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
He Changes Reality...
Tied for First
Collaborative project: Monica Dengo (calligraphy and design), Marco Ambrosi (photography), Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (poetry). Sumi ink on paper, photography (make up on skin). The final piece is printed on Fuji paper with a high quality ink jet printer.

Carl E. Kurtz
Mourning
Tied for First
The contemporary author/poet, Kathleen Norris, says her life was changed forever by this statement from a teacher: "Our words are wiser than we are."

Eliza Holliday
Dragon's Teeth
Tied for First

A headless man is running
down the street
He was carrying his head
in his hands
a woman ran after him
She had his heart in her hands
the bombs kept falling
sowing hate
They kept running down the street
not the same two people
but thousands of others and brothers
all running
from the bombs that kept falling
sowing pure hate
For every bomb that dropped
up sprang a thousand Bin Ladens
a thousand new terrorists
Like dragon's teeth
from which soldiers sprang up
each waving a different flag
as the smart bombs sowing hate
kept falling & falling

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eliza Holliday has a business in lettering, design and illustration and also teaches for calligraphy groups, private retreats, community colleges, through mail tutorials, and, most recently, workshops on book forms for librarians and schoolteachers throughout the southeast. Currently she is working on editions of fine art painted books and paper sculptures collaged with lettering. She has been exhibited widely and appears in several publications collecting calligraphic art, including The Art and Craft of Handlettering by Annie Cicale and The Speedball Textbook, 23rd Edition; and is author of several instructional manuals, including (as co-author) Brush Lettering: An Instructional Manual of Western Brush Calligraphy. In her spare time, she works with sea turtles on the Atlantic coast.

Yuko Wada Hayasaka
Breath
Honorable Mention

Marina Soria
What is Essential is Invisible to the Eye
Honorable Mention

Marie Marcano
365
Honorable Mention

Elizabeth McKee
For Immediate Release
Honorable Mention

Yukimi Annand
I am Meth-Let Me Lead You to Hell
Honorable Mention

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