The Gallery at TSTI presents
Tolerance Project at the Gallery at TSTI
Inclusion, acceptance, and belonging, across differences of political ideology, religious practice, and identity, are Reform Jewish ideals, rooted in the teaching that every human being is created b’tzelem Elohim, in the image of God. But what we strive for in our religious community is more difficult to find outside it; the gap between the world we live in and the one we hope for remains wide.
When inclusion and acceptance are out of reach, there is a concept that must come first: Tolerance. The Tolerance Project exhibition at the Gallery at TSTI is a meditation on that concept, a selection of posters that reflect on what it means to live free from the harm of bigotry, in a world where disagreement doesn’t mean disrespect or, at worst, violence.
Bosnian-born, New York-based artist and activist Mirko Ilić launched The Tolerance Project to encourage viewers to consider the concept of tolerance. The collection comprises over 200 posters by artists around the world who respond to a prompt: “Create a poster about tolerance, and include the word in your native language.” The goal of the project is to make these images as accessible as possible. The work has been shown in more than 50 countries, with an audience of over 700,000.
When deciding which of the designs to include in the exhibition, we asked members of the art committee to identify artwork that spoke to them, both for aesthetics and for the ideas that they raise. We sought to balance posters across continents, visual styles, and artists’ native languages.
Over the course of the year, we’ll expand the show with posters created by our own community. Watch for a chance to contribute. And at the end of the exhibition, we’ll offer the community the opportunity to support TSTI by making a donation and choosing one of the posters to take home.
For more, visit:
https://tolerance-project.org/