Messages from Our Community

September 23, 2024

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Thank you to our wonderful friend, Sora J. Kasuga, for these kind words about the power of our programming. Help us continue celebrating the beauty of diversity by attending our annual fundraiser on October 8th! Tickets and details here.

September is Craniofacial Acceptance Month, and the perfect time to learn about Sora’s work with the Face Out Project, a space where members of the Facial Difference community can come together and face out toward the world, in a collective effort toward promoting facial equality. “The global human rights epidemic plaguing the FD community is actively being ignored. The time is now to make radical change.”

For more information on the importance of facial equality, check out this podcast episode.

Video Description: Speaking to the camera is a Japanese-American person with a facial difference on left side of face, mostly shaved head with curls cascading over side of forehead.

 

Celina Leroy is one of the many talented artists whose work we have the privilege of showing in our gallery. Help support our artists by attending our annual fundraiser on October 8th!

Don’t miss Celina’s second show in our gallery, opening Sunday, October 6th! Celina’s gorgeous paintings celebrate the beauty of birthmarks and facial differences. She is also hosting a Life Drawing Workshop on Sunday afternoon.

Video description: Woman with light skin, long and curly brown hair, and a vascular birthmark on her lip, speaks to the camera. She wears a bright pink skirt and sits in an art studio with white walls.