Granite Palombo-Amit

Domestic Violence Work

Palombo (Amit) developed a program of therapeutic interventions and artistic expression with residents of a domestic violence shelter from 2000-2005. She organized a yearly art exhibit of the mothers’ and children’s work at ARC gallery:

Love Has a Metallic Taste, ARC Gallery, Chicago, October 2005.
A multi-media exhibit of animated poetry by children and women residents of a domestic violence shelter, documenting the psychological shifts from being a victim into self-advocator and communicator of the phenomena of domestic violence.

Hair-Do, ARC Gallery, Chicago, 2004.
Survivors of domestic violence wove six-foot body-sculptures of their own hair and extension hair, inviting the visitor to enter into metaphorically dialectical space of domination and powerlessness.