Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco CA

January 14th - February 25th, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 6:30pm
Main Gallery, Cash Bar and Light Snacks/ $5 admission

You Are Beautiful is a simple, powerful statement aspiring to create moments of positive self realization. The exhibition is an anonymous collective of community based projects and interventions, using drawings, photographs, found objects, sound, and installation to engage this fundamental concept in innovative and diverse ways. Also on view, is the You Are/ I Am Book Series, a global, collaborative project from the 2005 exhibit in Chicago.

After the exhibition, select works will be (re)installed in the streets of San Francisco―a campaign of optimism, seeking to create a new methodology of unified social consciousness.

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“Isn’t it what’s on the inside that counts?”

January 14 - February 25, 2012
Project Gallery / Inti Raymi

Guest Artist, Porous Walker, will create dynamic iterations of the You Are Beautiful message in the form of an interactive, on-going installation in the MCCLA Project Gallery.

Jan 28, Saturday (2-5p) 5$ | Silkscreen Workshop: Join us for an introductory demonstration on silkscreen techniques, using an original image from the You Are Beautiful project. Each participant will create a print to take home. Limited space, RSVP by Jan 21 to galleryasst@missionculturalcenter.org or 415.643.2775

Feb 11 (Saturday) (2-5p) Porous Walker invites “YOU” to (re)activate his work by bringing it into the streets! For more information and to confirm participation, please contact the MCCLA Gallery at galleryasst@missionculturalcenter.org or 415.643.2775

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More about You Are Beautiful

This exhibition is inspired by a 2005 Los Angeles exhibition that resulted in over 100 works from 50+ artists from around the world. View submitted work, as well as Large-Scale Installations and a full Wall Collage (Scroll left to right)

The vision of the ‘You Are Beautiful’ campaign is to focus on the utmost truth that unites us as a people: each individual is intriguing, complex and beautiful. With this realization, we are impelled to pass it along. Not following the status quo or daily norm, the objective is to look for a new manner to engage one another on a deep meaningful level, creating a new methodology of unified social consciousness.

The ‘You Are Beautiful’ message has spread throughout the world, dispersing hundreds of thousands of stickers, and generating countless community based projects to beautify neighborhoods in cities globally. The project itself is made up of an anonymous collective keeping the focus on the message rather than the participants. The project and the message are completely open. Anyone can participate, engage, and act. Empowering each of us, to choose optimism with clarity, and remind ourselves, that you are beautiful.