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Americans Who Tell the Truth – Through portraits painted by Robert Shetterly and stories of exemplary American citizens, both historical and contemporary, AWTT teaches the courage to act for the common good. A portrait of Lily Yeh is included in this project.

American Visionary Art Museum – An outsider art museum located in Baltimore, MD dedicated to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself.

Rudy Bruner Award – The Bruner Loeb Forum applies the expertise of Rudy Bruner Award winners and Loeb fellows and alumna to a wide variety of challenges facing our cities. The Village received the gold medal Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence in 2001.

Bioneers – Founder Kenny Ausubel coined the term Bioneers in 1990 to describe an emerging culture of social and scientific innovators from all walks of life and disciplines who have peered deep into the heart of living systems to understand how nature operates, and to mimic “nature’s operating instructions” to serve human ends without harming the web of life.

Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts – Ten transformative local arts projects, including The Village, come alive in this comics-illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers.

Living as Form – Barefoot Artists’ Rwanda Healing Project was selected by a 30-person curatorial advisory team as 1 of 100 projects included as part of “Living as Form: The Art of Social Engagement,” a major Creative Time exhibition in New York, NY in 2011. The accompanying book by Nato Thompsonoffers a global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of cultural production.

Daniel Traub – Award winning photographer and filmmaker, he has documented Barefoot Artists work all over the world including China, Rwanda, India. He is also the co-director of The Barefoot Artist documentary with Glenn Holsten.

Edens Lost & Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities, a companion book to the PBS series of the same name showcasing extraordinary stories of environmental rebirth in Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Los Angeles. The book is an inspirational and instructive guide to environmental restoration projects undertaken by ordinary citizens and social activists.

The Eisenhower Foundation – Identifies, funds, evaluates and builds the capacities of and replicates multiple solution ventures for the inner city, the truly disadvantaged, children, youth and families. The Village is one of The Eisenhower Foundation Community Partners

Joined at the Heart – In this provocative and personal book, Al and Tipper Gore explore the myriad ways in which the idea of family is being redefined in America. The final chapter focuses on community as family at The Village.

The Fellowship of Reconciliation – Since the 1920s, the Fellowship of Reconciliation has sent delegations of peacemakers to regions of the world in conflict and to nations regarded as U.S. enemies. Lily Yeh was a member of delegations that went to Iran and Israel/Palestine.

Gardens for Humanity – Located in Sedona, AZ, Gardens for Humanity awakens and tends the gardens of the human spirit by teaching and celebrating our connection to nature, local agriculture, art and community while promoting an ecologically sustainable and more humane culture.

Grantmakers in the Arts – Supporting The Village, GIA is the only national association of private and public funders making grants to artists and arts organizations in America.

Local Heroes Changing America – This stunning and inspiring book of photography and first-person narratives celebrates the remarkable people who, against staggering odds, are overcoming social, economic, and personal differences to improve their local communities and better people’s lives.

Moonrise Women Leading from the Heart – Co-edited by Nina Simons (founder of Bioneers) and Anneka Campbell, this book explores the flourishing, passionate forms of leadership emerging from women on behalf of the earth and community including a chapter about The Village and Lily Yeh.

Pew Fellowship of the Arts – The goal of PFA is to raise the visibility, both within and beyond the region, of the Philadelphia area’s most talented individual artists by concentrating support on practitioners in all disciplines whose work is characterized by excellence, imagination, and ongoing exploration and growth. Lily Yeh is a 1992 PFA recipient.

The Wallace Foundation – Develops and tests promising ideas on the ground, studying the results, researching related issues, and sharing what they’ve learned broadly to help improve children’s lives. Lily Yeh received a Lila Wallace Arts International Fellowship in 1993 for a three months residency in Kenya and Ivory Coast.

Yes! Magazine – Reframes the biggest problems of our time in terms of their solutions. Online and in print, we outline a path forward with in-depth analysis, tools for citizen engagement, and stories about real people working for a better world. Lily Yeh and Barefoot Artists were featured in the 2011 article, Lily Yeh: Beauty in Broken Places.

ESTHER AND THE DREAM
OF ONE HUMAN FAMILY

THROUGH DECEMBER 2025

American Visionary Art Museum

Lily Yeh’s The 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Acrylic on Brown Paper, 2015 is featured in the exibition Esther and the Dream of One Human Family at the Amiercan Visionary Museum in Baltimore. The show pays tribute to humanity’s unjust persecution of innocents and the dream of a world at peace and has been extended through December 2025.

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