The Voice of Art
Virtual Gallery
About
Mission Statement
The Voice of Art (TVOA) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) visual art organization founded in 2017.
It is dedicated to creating art experiences that enrich the lives of CT residents throughout the state.
Our current vision for The Voice of Art is to provide meaningful integration of arts and cultural community-building activities for residents of the Litchfield community. Also, TVOA is expanding its educational and health-related studio art program for residents of the Litchfield community and aims to reach a wider and diverse audience through such activities as classes, workshops, and outreach programs for community, all with the goal of inspiring and educating.
TVOA also aims to provide opportunities for new viewers to experience high-level artworks by emerging and established artists through accessible exhibitions of their work, both in TVOA’s virtual gallery and in venues provided by multiple business communities.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Statement
The Voice of Art believes its community of artists, staff and board play a unique role in modelling the humanity in all of us. Because we value the arts as a universal language, we strive to create socially just learning environments that are reflective of the surrounding towns’ demographics and that affirm and practice the values of equity, diversity, and inclusion through the various roles and responsibilities we have in all our work.
We respect all communities with which we work and strive for ongoing reflection on patterns of racism, sexism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, classism, ableism, nativism, ageism, religious, body type and other forms of discrimination and oppression that can negatively affect anyone in the surrounding communities.
Definitions:
Equity: fairness and justice for all people.
Diversity: variety, multiplicity, and intersectional.
Inclusion: authentic representation, empowered participation, full access,
and true belonging.
Meet Our Board of Directors
Hannah Jung, Director/Artist-in-Residence
Hannah founded The Voice of Art in 2017 and is currently working as a Director and Artist-in-Residence. She was born in South Korea and came to U.S. for her graduate study after obtaining her BFA in Painting from Seoul National University in 2000.
Hannah has been an exhibiting artist in CT and taught at Housatonic Community College, Albertus Magnus College, as well as public and private schools. A Juried Artist from Silvermine Guild Arts Center (New Canaan) and a recipient in the Art of the Northeast and the I-Park Artists Residency Program, her work has been exhibited nationwide, including Promenade Gallery at the Bushnell (Hartford), Gallery Korea, Korean Embassy (Washington D.C.), Vision Gallery (NYC), and The White Gallery (Lakeville, CT), to name a few.
Priscilla Meleschnig (Berlin, CT) Treasurer
Kathy Noethlich (Thomaston, CT) Secretary
Jim Noethlich (Thomaston, CT)
Quinn Mitchell (Meriden, CT)
Phillip Ricciuti, Esquire (Cheshire, CT)
Rev. Robert Pohl (Canaan, CT)
YONG H. PARK (Cheshire, CT)
"Be a Voice of 2019!"
This Video was made possible by
David A. Smith's In-kind Donation