$ 29.99
Each Creative Action Network poster is hand-printed and handled to make sure that only the highest quality is offered and sent out. The sturdy matte paper and premium inks create a vibrant, museum-quality image that looks great both framed and unframed. Posters are printed in Los Angeles, CA on Epson Enhanced Matte Paper heavyweight stock, with a wide color gamut and Epson UltraChrome HDR ink-jet technology. The framed poster arrives wrapped in a protective yet lightweight black frame and includes a shatter-resistant acrylite front protector that won't break during shipping. International orders may be subject to customs duties & taxes.
Proceeds support the Anti-Defamation League, the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency, fighting anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all. We Were Strangers Too is a collection of designs showing how diverse and universal the refugee experience truly is.
Lyla Paakkanen lives in Sacramento, where the Pony Express ended its route. She is a freelance artist and illustrator, has a Master’s Degree in Art from CSUN, Communications Design from UCLA. She taught art at 5 colleges and has won many awards in California and Colorado for her work.
Lyla Paakkanen lives in Sacramento, where the Pony Express ended its route. She is a freelance artist and illustrator, has a Master’s Degree in Art from CSUN, Communications Design from UCLA. She taught art at 5 colleges and has won many awards in California and Colorado for her work.
I used to work at the Los Angeles Children's Museum where I was in charge of an ethnic exhibit and a children's gallery. We would get art from different outside organizations. One day I got a proposal for an exhibit for artwork done by refugee children of the long, Guatemalan Civil War that had ended in 1996. The imagery was heart wrenching as these kids had seen so much violence and death. I thought that I would create a poster based upon children's drawings. When I went to do the reasearch, I found that like the pictures on the museum wall, children of war drew either the horror of war, or an idealized world to which they and their families would escape to. I decided to make drawings that looked like children had drawn them, but not the drawings of the horrors of war, or the idealized world, but their flight to their life. Many immigrants are forced to move from their homes and go through many hardships to escape, conflict, persecution, and prejudices, but it is the hardest on children. — Lyla Paakkanen
