The Dallas Museum of Art and Preservation Link

Last year the Dallas Museum of Art and Preservation Link Inc.(PLI), partnered together to display the efforts of five schools in the South Dallas/ Fair Park area of photographs that the children themselves had taken. These photographs displayed what the children deemed to be beautiful about the community that they lived in. The beautiful things that they perceived was pointedly about their community, themselves, and their culture. I commend the efforts of PLI and the insightful look that has developed in the lives of the children that have taken part in this program. Their partnership with area schools began in 2004 through a program called Point of View. This program allows the voice, that is not often heard to shine through the mainstream single minded ideas about the community as ugly and wasted area. Instead, you are allowed a glimpse of the rose growing out of the concrete. It reminds us that beauty lives everywhere...you just have to open your eyes to see it.

This year Through the Eyes of our Children- Something Beautiful

will be again located in the Mezzanine Level in at the Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibit will run from May 14-August 29, 2010. The Opening Recpetion on May 27th from 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood Street
May 27th- come out and show your support and take a closer look at something beautiful.

http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/View/CurrentExhibitions/dma_205634 image retrieved from the DMA website.