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The Corazón Lastimado: Healing the Wounded Heart survivor art exhibit was on display at the National Sexual Assault Conference.

 

This unique exhibit uses wooden hearts as templates to offer visual testimony to the impact of sexual violence in our lives. The first exhibit in March 2001 was a collaboration between sexual assault programs in Texas under the leadership of future Arte Sana staff, and La Peña Latinx arts organization. Over 165 survivors of sexual assault, victim rights advocates, and artists from Texas, the U.S., Mexico, and Argentina participated in three Corazón Lastimado survivor art exhibits in Texas, and the exhibit has been replicated on college campuses, by victim assistance agencies, and state coalitions across the nation.

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In 2014 Berks Women in Crisis and Centro Hispano Daniel Torres invited survivors of rape and sexual assault and the advocates who work with them to create hearts for a community-wide Corazón Lastimado Project in Reading, Pennsylvania. That same year the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence hosted a Corazón Lastimado exhibit in honor of National Crime Victims' Rights Week, and the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence also hosted its first exhibit. In 2016 the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault hosted an exhibit orientation webinar presented by Arte Sana on its  15th anniversary, and invited advocates to create corazones in conjunction with SAAM and the Latin@ Advocate Leadership Summit. 

 

We invite you to use the #CorazónHealingHearts hashtag via Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram  to view comments regarding past exhibits, as well as images from your future exhibits.

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