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The Clothesline Project is an American non-governmental organization created to bring awareness to the issue of violence against women. For those who have been affected by violence, it is a means of expressing their experiences by decorating a t-shirt. [1] After the shirts have been decorated, they are hung on a clothesline display.
Beginning in 1990 in Massachusetts, The Clothesline Project is made up of t-shirts created by survivors of violence, or created in honor of someone who has experienced violence. The Clothesline Project provides evidence that incest, domestic violence, and sexual violence exists in our communities and is a visual reminder of statistics that we ...
A clothes line, also spelled clothesline, also known as a wash line, is a device for hanging clothes on for the purpose of drying or airing out the articles. It is made of any type of rope , cord, wire, or twine that has been stretched between two points (e.g. two posts), outdoors or indoors, above ground level.
The rape crisis center in DeKalb, Georgia, uses the Clothesline Project to increase awareness of sexual violence. In the Clothesline Project, female survivors of sexual assault create T-shirts that express their feelings on sexual violence. This artistic project is permanently displayed at the DeKalb Rape Crisis Center. [37]
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A clothes line is an apparatus on which laundry is hung to dry, usually outdoors. Clothes line or clothesline may also refer to: Clothesline, a set of moves in professional wrestling; Clothes-Line, an early television documentary on fashion history (1937)
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This project is the subject of a critically acclaimed documentary film aired on PBS entitled Herman's House. Sumell is a 2007 Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellow, a 2013 Open Society Soros Justice Fellow, [ 1 ] a 2015 Nathan Cummings Foundation Recipient, a 2015 Eyebeam Project Fellow [ 2 ] and a 2016 Robert Rauchenberg Artist as Activist Fellow.