31:
Iowa Voices Project
History of the Iowa
Voices Project:
2006: Katie, as a survivor
herself, wants to give back. She gets an idea that sets the
whole project in motion.
2007--summer and early fall:
Katie interviews and photographs 31 survivors of domestic violence
all over Iowa and creates a newspaper article from each interview.
Click
here to read Katie's introduction
to the project.
2007--October: A story and its
corresponding photo is published each day in newspapers all
over Iowa to commemorate Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
2008--October: Katie takes the
Voices project photos on the road for the first time, visiting
colleges and other venues in communities across Iowa to start
conversations about domestic violence.
2009--summer and fall: Katie
works on a book version of the interviews and photos. She also
starts to work with others to create art quilts from the stories.
Some of the women interviewed for the book also do presentations
about domestic violence as the 31 project Speaker's Bureau.
2009--October: Katie again takes
the Voices project on the road, visiting some of the same
communities and some new places. She brings one of the first
art quilts to accompany the photographs.
2010 and beyond: Keep checking at
Katie's website
for updates on the book and other news about the project
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