Steve Horn Receives Grant for Return to Bosnia –

CEC ArtsLink, based in New York City, has selected photographer Steve Horn as one of its 2009 Award recipients. This year’s selections represent artists and arts managers from throughout the U.S. and from 16 other countries.

May 3, 2009 1:00 am
Steve Horn Receives Grant for Return to Bosnia –

CEC ArtsLink, based in New York City, has selected photographer Steve Horn as one of its 2009 Award recipients. This year’s selections represent artists and arts managers from throughout the U.S. and from 16 other countries.

All are welcome to a Lopez Artist Guild-sponsored opening reception for Steve at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts on Friday, May 8 from 5 – 6:30 p.m. His exhibition, Pictures Without Borders: Bosnia Revisited, will be on display for the first time in the San Juans since its creation by the Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Initiative at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in late 2007. His book with the same title is available at local bookstores.

Steve received one of 12 ArtsLink Project awards, to support U.S. artists and arts organizations who wish to undertake creative activities with partners in Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Funding for CEC ArtsLink comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Ohio Arts Council, the Kettering Fund and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.

The grant will support his collaboration with the director of the Travnik Museum in Bosnia to produce and distribute a new exhibition of photographs and bilingual texts chronicling trips to the Balkans in 1970 and 2003. He will travel there again in October to present a slide talk and meet with local photographers.

The exhibition now on Lopez was created for Emory University’s Schatten Gallery in the fall of 2007 and traveled to the Bosnian Embassy in Washington, DC, Amherst College in Massachusetts, and the Dayton International Peace Museum and Dayton Metro Library in Ohio.

This show and book grew out of a 2004 slide talk that Steve gave at the Lopez Community Center on his return from Bosnia in 2003. Now the project returns to the place of its first presentation.

The exhibition, Pictures Without Borders: Bosnia Revisited, will be on view May 8 through June 17, 2009

Opening reception at Lopez Center, LCCA Friday, May 8, 5-6:30 p.m.