'Scream' by Saad Ghosn Featured in Park National Bank Art Gallery

Scream

by Saad Ghosn will be featured in the Park National Bank Art Gallery at UC Clermont College from November 9-29.

In recognition of International Education Week, the college invites the community to visit this upcoming exhibit and celebrate the following events with the artist Ghosn on Tuesday, November 15, 2011: 

•   2:30-3:30 p.m. Meet the Artist Reception. Location: Snyder Building, Park National Bank Art Gallery (Refreshments provided.)

•   3:30-4:30 p.m. Artist Talk- Ghosn shares details about his current works on display in the gallery.  Location: Snyder Building, Park National Bank Art Gallery

Ghosn is a native of Lebanon, moving to the U.S. in 1976. He is a medical professional and professor at the University of Cincinnati, resorts to visual and spoken art to express himself and convey his views for a just and peaceful world. Saad believes that activism is at the heart of art expression, and that art is a potent tool for effecting a change. He is the founder of

‘SOS ART’

a yearly art event of creative expressions for peace and justice, and the editor and publisher of the yearly

‘For a Better World, Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists.’

Ghosn has also written a regular column

‘Artists as Activists’

in the semi-monthly Cincinnati newspaper

“Streetvibes;”

it featured Greater Cincinnati artists who use their art as a vehicle for change.

“I state my discontent with power-based politics and with the decaying values of our society. I denounce what I perceive as daily living violence, military might and control, prevailing lies, derailing standards, eroding freedom, disappearing human rights. My prints aim to say loud what I believe in, also what I find wrong, what I consider is preventing us from living a better world, the world of justice and peace I dream of,” said Ghosn about his exhibit,

Scream

.

The Park National Bank Art Gallery is located in the Snyder building on the UC Clermont College campus in Batavia at 4200 Clermont College Drive. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. The gallery is closed on Sundays. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.