LANCASTER,
Pa. -- Eyes Wide Open, the American Friends Service Committee's (AFSC)
acclaimed exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq war, will be on
display at Franklin & Marshall College Sept. 23-25 on the college's
Hartman Green at the center of campus, and in the Steinman College
Center and Phillips Museum of Art. 
The
exhibit includes a pair of boots honoring each U.S. military casualty
(1,873 as of Aug. 25), a field of shoes and wall of remembrance to
memorialize the Iraqis killed in the conflict, and a multimedia display
that explores the history, cost and consequences of the war. Eyes Wide
Open will officially open on Friday, Sept. 23 at noon on Hartman Green
with a ceremony featuring speakers from Franklin & Marshall and
Elizabethtown Colleges, as well as representatives from the Lancaster
Friends Meeting and the AFSC.  Other
events will include a reading of the names and a candlelight vigil on
Friday evening, a noontime speakers' forum (with representatives from
the AFSC, Gold Star Mothers for Peace, and Veterans for Peace) and a 3
p.m. symposium "Principled Resistance: Religion and War in the Modern
Era" in the Booth Ferris Room on Saturday; and a 3 p.m. interfaith
prayer service on Hartman Green on Sunday. In addition, the college's
Phillips Museum will feature "The Human Rights Painting Project" by
artist Tom Block, in conjunction with Amnesty International, in the
Curriculum Gallery.
AFSC, an international social justice
organization, created Eyes Wide Open to memorialize the lives lost in
the war in Iraq. The exhibit, which opened in Chicago's Federal Plaza
with 500 pairs of boots in January 2004, will continue growing as the
death toll continues to rise. The tour has been to more than 60 cities
and towns across the country, including Philadelphia, Boston, New York
City, Providence, Indianapolis, Orlando, and many more.
The
exhibit is sponsored by Franklin & Marshall College's Department of
Art and Art History, the Phillips Museum, The Center for Liberal Arts
and Society, and the Department of Anthropology; Lancaster Monthly
Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); Lancaster
Interchurch Peace Witness; Lancaster Coalition for Peace and Social
Justice; The F&M student chapter of Amnesty International; and
Women in Black.
For more information, call 358-4550 or visit the Eyes Wide Open website at www.afsc.org/eyes/about-the-exhibit.htm. -30- |
