Posted May 21 2018
Tender Mercies permanently installs photo collage from New Voices, Winter, 2017 program with students from the School for Creative and Performing Arts.
In the Winter of 2017, Tender Mercies residents and Creative Writing students from SCPA collaborated over the course of ten weeks to explore Over-the-Rhine through photography and in conversation. The group visited historic sites in Over-the-Rhine to photograph including Phillipus Church, First Lutheran Church and Memorial Hall on Washington Park. The group found joy in exploring their own visual interests through the camera as well as learning how others see the world through the lenses of their cameras and personal experiences. One Tender Mercies resident struck a pose on the stage at Memorial Hall which became the foundation for one of the four collages produced by participants. This pose was turned into a silhouette and surrounded by images created throughout the program by this one small group. This collage, along with the three others created during the program, are all on permanent display at Tender Mercies in Over-the-Rhine.
Collage detail.
