About SAFEHS

Students & Artists Fighting to End Human Slavery is a grassroots initiative that works to build a movement of abolition through coalition building and creativity.We work to build a movement of artists, survivors, supporters, activists creatively engaging with the anti-trafficking movement. The curriculum is multi-media; our goal is to inspire the community to explore various avenues in which they may artistically express themselves through a variety of lens and to support artists whose mission is to end exploitation through the arts. Because human slavery impacts everyone in the U.S. we value all forms of artistic expression and encourage race, gender, class and religious diversity in our students and mentors. Our objective is to empower students/survivors and the community and its artists to recognize their agency in promoting social change and abolishing human slavery through creative means. It is a safe space for the community to define what human slavery / human trafficking means to them and how we are all impacted by this global phenomenon. While we are located in Northern California, we collaborate nationally.

For details on the below events, visit the events link. If you are unable to view the images, click "view all images" and it will open in a new window.

"Slavery in the Everyday, Resistance as Art" Framed Photographs and Informational Booth
Art Exhibit at the Worth Ryder Gallery, Out of TimeSpace Symposium, Nov. 6-16, 2007

Images from Cartooning & Screen Printing Workshops
"Cartooning Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow" (Oct. 10) and "Impressions of Human Slavery" (Oct. 2 and 9)