{"id":363,"date":"2009-12-02T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:09:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:09:14","slug":"world-aids-daythe-mask-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"World AIDS Day\/The Mask Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/maskproject.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/maskproject-203x300.jpg\" width=\"218\" \/><\/a>In an effort to raise awareness of issues surrounding HIV\/AIDS, housing, poverty and justice, clients and supporters of The Center in Asbury Park participated in a mask-making project that resulted in an amazing array of one-of-a-kind works of art.<\/p>\n<p>During the face casting process, each *face donor* was asked a series of self-reflective questions; the answers were then used by the artists to depict the face of the person.  Found objects were used to decorate the masks as a way of mirroring the experience of homeless persons who make do with the resources available to them in their daily travels.<\/p>\n<p>The masks were auctioned off tonight as part of the local commemoration of World AIDS Day and I stopped by to see the exhibit.  I&#8217;d been hearing about the project for months through a couple of my clients&#8230; some of whom *donated* their face for a mask&#8230; of the 60 masks, this was the only one I thought looked familiar.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Were you aware of anything happening in your community today to commemorate World AIDS Day?<\/p>\n<p>A video about the project is available on YouTube by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UHc2PDDz-KM\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to raise awareness of issues surrounding HIV\/AIDS, housing, poverty and justice, clients and supporters of The Center in Asbury Park participated in a mask-making project that resulted in an amazing array of one-of-a-kind works of art. During the face casting process, each *face donor* was asked a series of self-reflective questions; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World AIDS Day\/The Mask Project<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,12,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}