Neatorama reader Anne wrote to us about Kurt Gohde, a Lexington, Kentucky artist who created baseball cards featuring homeless people and drug addicts:
This year is the "rookie" season of the project and successive years will follow the individuals through their challenges of homelessness and addiction. More importantly, the art is viewed not in a museum or gallery, but by personal interaction with the participants as each is given cards to handout to the public. The goal is to create awareness not by a sterile viewing of artwork but by shaking hands and experiencing the living conditions of the millions of Americans affected by drug addition and homelessness.
Check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVnyIKL8qWw