April 29, 2010
- The Creative Coalition hosted a gallery exhibit of portraits from the Art & Soul project. The gallery exhibit, sponsored by Hachette Filipacchi
Media U.S. (HFM U.S.) and Sony, is a collection of portraits of performing artists by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
Brian Smith. This showing will take place at The Library of Congress in Washington D.C., on April 29, 2010.
Art & Soul is the cornerstone of The Creative Coalition’s arts advocacy campaign
to focus national attention on the need to secure federal funding and support for the arts.
The portraits, of artists such as Samuel Jackson, Alyssa Milano,
Adrian Grenier, Zooey Deschanel, Kerry Washington, Gina Gershon and Anne Hathaway, are accompanied
by handwritten personal testimonials from each individual, expressing the positive impact art has had on their lives. The
exhibit will feature large, high resolution prints of selected portraits from a collection that will be featured in a Creative
Coalition book published by Filipacchi Publishing, the book division of HFM U.S.
Photographer Brian Smith, who has travelled the country taking portraits
as part of Sony Electronics’ professional photography program ‘Artisans of Imagery,’ notably shoots with
the full-frame α DSLR-A900 camera, which is designed to deliver ultra-fine picture quality with a 24.6-megapixel, 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor and fast image processing. The results are breathtaking images that faithfully
capture the expressiveness and nuance of Art & Soul’s subjects.
The portrait exhibit will be displayed in conjunction with The Creative Coalition’s
one-night show by the same name, Art & Soul. The show, written and produced by multiple
Emmy® Award-winning producer Tom Fontana ("Oz," "Homicide: Life on Street," "St. Elsewhere"), stars actors and Co-Presidents
of The Creative Coalition Tim Daly (“Private Practice”) and Dana Delany (“Desperate
Housewives”); actor Adrian Grenier (“Entourage,” The Devil Wears Prada); actor CCH
Pounder (Avatar); director Barry Levinson (Poliwood, Wag The Dog),
actor Ashley Greene (Twilight); actor Cheryl Hines (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”);
legendary news anchor Morley Safer (“60 Minutes”); actor Omar Epps (“House”);
actor Marlon Wayans (White Chicks, Scary Movie); actor Steven Weber (“Brothers
& Sisters”); actor Wendie Malick (Confessions of a Shopaholic; “Just Shoot
Me”); actor Richard Schiff (A Solitary Man, “The West Wing”);
director Spike Lee (Inside Man, Do The Right Thing); Tom Fontana ("Oz,"
"Homicide: Life on Street," "St. Elsewhere"); among others to be announced.
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