A Powerful Piece, No Bones About It

Albuquerque’s artists are certainly a bold bunch. Recently, the local scene has gotten some attention for its quirkiness. But that doesn’t mean that the scope of the area’s artists is limited to our community.

Local art collective Art of Revolution brought their signature brand of grandiose, emotionally powerful artwork to the National Mall last month with a beautiful piece called One Million Bones. The piece consisted of one million replica human bones, laid out on the national lawn to call attention to ongoing mass genocide and mass atrocities in Syria, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma, and Somalia.

On Art of Revolution’s website, you can access a 360-degree panorama of the piece, in the likely case that you couldn’t make it all the way to Washington, D.C. to check it out.

Art of Revolution continues to pursue other socially conscious projects and traditional art installations. According to their website, their mission is:

The Art of Revolution uses art to transform public opinion and inspires creative action towards social change.  We select, support and produce projects that allow us to promote social change by creating art by and for the people.  In this way, we connect new activists to their cause using an artistic approach as a point of entry.  Our One Million Bones project mission is to raise awareness of and critical funds for survivors of genocides and crises occurring today in Sudan, Burma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in Somalia. 

Our approach to social change incorporates our deeply held belief that genuine and lasting change must occur on multiple levels at one time; we have to make the public aware of what’s happening; we must educate the next generation, we must take care of the immediate need of people, communities and the planet; and we must work to change U.S. policy.

It’s so great to see local organizations that not only create beautiful work but spread it around the world. And it doesn’t hurt that it all started in Albuquerque and its influence will hopefully extend overseas and throughout the world. To learn more about the Art of Revolution and the One Million Bones project, click here.