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About the Exhibition
The Twin Cities continue to face an acute shortage of affordable
housing. Rents and home prices have greatly escalated over
the past several years. More and more working families find
themselves unable to locate and afford a place to live. As
a result, thousands of individuals and families with children
go homeless in our community.
The Family Housing Fund is a nonprofit organization whose
mission is to preserve and expand quality affordable housing
for families with low and moderate incomes in the seven-county
metropolitan area of Minneapolis and Saint
Paul. The McKnight Foundation and the cities of Minneapolis
and St. Paul established the Fund in 1980. As a housing intermediary,
the Fund brings together people, money, and expertise to support
the delivery of affordable housing. Please visit our Web site
at www.fhfund.org
to learn more.
The Family Housing Fund believes that
art and poetry can strengthen its public education efforts
and be a powerful vehicle for evoking positive social change.
To celebrate its 20th Anniversary and raise awareness of the
growing need for affordable housing, the Fund sponsored
“Home
Sweet Home: An Affordable Housing Art Exhibit” in
2000. Due to the success of that show, the Fund decided to
organize a second exhibition in 2005 called “Home Sweet
Home Again.” The exhibit’s opening at Intermedia
Arts in Minneapolis was also a kick-off
event for the Fund’s 25th Anniversary.
Artists and poets from the Twin Cities
metropolitan area were invited to provide art and poetry that
celebrated the importance of home and in recognized the great
need for affordable housing. The resulting exhibition includes
more than 100 new artworks and poems on the issues of homelessness,
affordable housing, or the meaning of home. The show will
travel to various locations throughout the Twin Cities during
2005-06. Check the exhibition
calendar for an updated listing of when and where
you can view “Home Sweet Home Again.”
This Web site features the artworks, poems, and accomplishments
of the commissioned artists and poets. The Family Housing
Fund is deeply grateful to them for using their unique talents
to help convey the critical need for safe, decent, affordable
housing for families and individuals in our community. The
Fund would also like to thank Intermedia Arts for their partnership
in this effort and our major public education initiative funders—The
McKnight Foundation and The St. Paul Travelers Foundation.
Without their support, this exhibition and supporting publications
would not have been possible. Publications that feature the
artworks and poems from Home Sweet Home Again include the
Poetry
Booklet and the Artist
Booklet, and the Fund’s
2004 Annual Report.
If you have questions or comments about the show, would
like to host the exhibition at your organization or company,
or to order exhibition publications, please e-mail shawna@fhfund.org
or call 612-375-9644, ext. 13.
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