National Institute of the Study of Violence

The Women's Art Exhibit And Booksale

If you are an organization and would like to host our exhibit please phone us for a date or send the name, address, and phone number of your organization and contact person, and we will get back to you.

The Women's Art Exhibit of The Body of A Woman Was Found was designed to dramatize violence against women and help to provide revenues to under funded women organizations and shelters. The full exhibit consists of 100 drawings and photographs depicting the murder of women and children around the country. The drawings do not exploit nor sensationalize their deaths. The drawings were done with integrity and tastefulness. The exhibit is designed to prevent violence against women by giving women extensive information that may save their lives. The full exhibit will be introduced October 2008 (The National Domestic Violence Month) in Michigan. By invitation, the Institute will be touring Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin publicizing the exhibit. We will show the mini-exhibit
(40 drawings) at churches, conventions, large corporations, state office buildings, and universities.

Violence against women is taking an enormous emotional and financial toll on this country. Part of the drug world consists of individuals self-medicating themselves, trying to forget the violence they have experienced as children, trying to forget the moments of rape, humiliation, and degradation that they experienced. We need to prevent children from going hungry, feeling displaced, neglected and abandoned. We believe these factors contribute to the fear and rage that develop in children causing them to become violent in adulthood. Women and children cannot develop and grow into a family unit if their environment is filled with violence.

The Institute believes that we can reduce the violence experienced by women and children if female organizations and like minded organizations work together. The prevention of violence directly affects the stability of the nation. Violence against women is an unpleasant subject, but we, as a nation must face this phenomenon if we are to survive as a people.

The National Institute of the Study of Violence is dedicated to the prevention of violence against women and children. We want the violence to stop and we believe women can stop the violence by working together.

We will consider it an honor to host a mini exhibit or to be invited to speak before your group. You can call us at 734-688-1444 or E-mail us at Yithril11@netzero.net.

Please help us prevent violence against women by distributing copies of our souvenir program A Body of A Woman Was Found. For an electronic copy of "A Body of A Woman Was Found" to send to family and friends please e-mail us at Yithril11@netzero.net.