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Media Contact: Margaret Reardon
                           Community Engagement Coordinator

                            216-272-4277
                            mreardon@chagrinarts.org

The Goddess Project: Innocents at Chagrin Arts 

 

Artist Judy Takács’ Goddess Project and the Ohio Innocence Project come together at Chagrin Arts, for The Goddess Project: Innocents, opening March 6^th.

 

For years now, Chagrin Arts has allied itself with the Ohio Innocence Project, a legal team whose mission is to fight for and free those who have been wrongfully incarcerated, sometimes for decades. They also work to fix the legal systems that convict the innocent.

 

For several years now, figurative artist, Judy Takács has been re-imagining the characters from the mythology of all the religions. She seeks to correct stereotypes, prejudices and damaging narratives that haunt us today.

 

In researching age-old mythology, Takács’ Goddess Project has found many women and goddesses, who were wrongfully punished, held in captivity, and vilified in the eyes of the world. Their fictitious stories parallel today’s headlines. Medusa’s was a #Metoo story. Persephone was kidnapped into a forced marriage. Eve and Pandora were damned for seeking education.

 

The Goddess Project: Innocents, features Judy Takács’ colorful, classical-inspired figurative paintings of these heroines through her contemporary feminist lens. Takács’ book, The Goddess Project, will launch at the opening with signed copies available for purchase.

 

Chagrin Arts

88 North Main Street

Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022

440 247 9700

 

The Goddess Project: Innocents

March 6 through June 13

Opening Reception, Sunday, March 6^th 2:00 to 4:00 RSVP here

 

Panel Discussion in conjunction with the Ohio Innocence Project RSVP here

Sunday, March 20, 2-3:00, 

Gallery viewing follows at 3:00 to 4:00

Chagrin Falls Town Hall, 83 North Main Street, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 

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