{"id":545,"date":"2016-11-17T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/alt\/?page_id=545"},"modified":"2023-06-08T03:58:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T03:58:13","slug":"activist-love-letters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/alt\/activist-love-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist Love Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-545\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-545-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch parallax-section row-69ecaf5a496c7 panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-545-0\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/alt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/09\/background-nyc.jpg);padding-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 30px; \" data-stretch-type=\"full\" data-parallax-image=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/alt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/09\/background-nyc.jpg\" data-parallax-id=\".row-69ecaf5a496c7\" ><div id=\"pgc-545-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-545-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-image panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"ctrl-logo panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-545-0-0-0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-image so-widget-sow-image-default-8b5b6f678277-545\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\n<div class=\"sow-image-container\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/smithsonianapa.org\/alt\"\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/alt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/09\/ctrlalt-newlogo-300x261.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/alt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/09\/ctrlalt-newlogo-300x261.png 300w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/alt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/09\/ctrlalt-newlogo-768x669.png 768w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/alt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/09\/ctrlalt-newlogo-1024x892.png 1024w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/alt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/09\/ctrlalt-newlogo.png 1378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" alt=\"\" \t\tclass=\"so-widget-image\"\/>\n\t<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-545-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"ctrl-title panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-545-0-0-1\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">A Statement about\u00a0<\/h5>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Activist Love Letters<\/b><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">A project by Syrus Marcus Ware<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-545-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-545-1\" ><div id=\"pgc-545-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-545-1-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-545-1-0-0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>During the weekend of CTRL+ALT, one of our exhibits featured a project called <em>Activist Love Letters<\/em> \u2013 a workshop where members of the public were invited to write notes of admiration, advice and encouragement to inspirational community leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, we learned that the artist <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/syrusmarcusware.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Syrus Marcus Ware<\/strong><\/a><\/span> has\u00a0been presenting a project of the same name and a similar concept since 2012. Ware was the first to develop <em>Activist Love Letters<\/em>, debuting it at the Feminist Art Gallery in Toronto in January 2012. It has since then shown throughout Canada, including the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Doris McCarthy Gallery and the Art Gallery of York University, among others.<\/p>\n<p>We reached out to Ware, and together decided that to see this moment as an opportunity to share his\u00a0long-running and widely-recognized creation. We at the\u00a0Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center are\u00a0absolutely thrilled to have met this inspirational artist, and are pleased to recognize the original\u00a0<em>Activist Love Letters<\/em>,\u00a0and its creator Syrus Marcus Ware.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/syrusmarcusware.com\/past-projects-exhibitions\/activist-love-letters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about Syrus Marcus Ware's Activist Love Letters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Statement about\u00a0Activist Love LettersA project by Syrus Marcus Ware During the weekend of CTRL+ALT, one of our exhibits featured a project called Activist Love Letters \u2013 a workshop where members of the public were invited to write notes of admiration, advice and encouragement to inspirational community leaders.Over the weekend, we learned that the artist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/alt\/activist-love-letters\/\" title=\"Activist Love Letters\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-545","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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