We Are All Homeless an Exhibition and Editioned Portfolio by Willie Baronet

Please join us this Thursday for a reception honoring Willie Baronet and the release of his portfolio We Are All Homeless.

(installation view, We are All Homeless)

As I am writing this blog, Baronet and his team are installing We Are All Homeless, an exhibition which opens this Thursday featuring 287 signs that Baronet purchased on his trip this summer for the documentary Signs of Humanity.

Willie Baronet

We Are All Homeless

New York University, Kimmel Center Gallery

Reception for the artist

Thursday, January 8, 2015

6:30PM to 8:00PM

 

(image from the portfolio, We Are All Homeless, 2014-2015)

We Are All Homeless is a project that began in 1993 when Willie Baronet began buying and collecting homeless signs as a way to deal with his discomfort at seeing people on street corners asking for help. In his 2012 TEDx Talk about the project, he spoke of his desire to take a "sign-buying trip" across the United States.

(image from the portfolio, We Are All Homeless, 2014-2015)

That trip took place in July of 2014, from Seattle to San Diego to New York - 24 cities, 31 days, 7620 miles, over 280 signs. This exhibition is the first installation of those signs.

(image from the portfolio, We Are All Homeless, 2014-2015)

A film crew traveled with Baronet across the country and are putting together a documentary titled Signs of Humanity.

(image from the portfolio, We Are All Homeless, 2014-2015)

Maria Cuomo Cole, chairman of HELP USA, is helping to produce a national tour of the exhibit in an effort to create awareness about the alarming rise of homelessness:

The homeless often lose their identity and dignity, living on the streets of America's busy cities. Artist Willie Baronet's We Are All Homeless project (which will be featured in the upcoming documentary Signs of Humanity) reminds us that men and women in the most challenging circumstances have names, families, stories and dreams.

-Maria Cuomo Cole

(image from the portfolio, We Are All Homeless, 2014-2015)

Lisa Brown Consulting/LBC Projects + Editions in conjunction with The Dallas Foundation Filmanthrophy Fund and Judy Burch Gass Producer, Signs of Humanity, announces the publication of an editioned portfolio created by Willie Baronet:

Willie Baronet

We Are All Homeless

2014

Archival Inkjet on Hahnemuhle 100% rag paper

(22) 17 x 22 inches each

Edition of 50

Price on Request

We Are All Homeless, includes 22 images of signs from cities which were purchased by Baronet (several of the images from the portfolio are included in this blog). The portfolio is published with a custom made Plexiglass box that can display the unframed images.  100% of the proceeds from the sale of this series will be used to fund post production costs of the film, and 100% of the of the profits from the distribution of the film will be allocated to homeless shelters and homeless causes important to Baronet, such as The Housing Crisis Center, The Bridge and HelpUSA.

Your purchase is tax deductible as a donation to The Dallas Foundation Filmanthropy Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to producing

socially relevant and impactful films.

Please consider making Baronet's portfolio part of your collection.  Contact Lisa Brown Consulting for pricing and any additional information.