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Submit a creative work, become a member, start a chapter, partner on a project… Whatever you want to do, take action today and be part of a community promoting social awareness through creative mediums.
As a member, you can be an artist who creates pieces to contribute to galleries/exhibitions or a writer/columnist writing blog posts/articles ranging from informational works to personal anecdotes. You can be an editor for blog articles, a graphic designer/illustrator for our online platforms or help come up with potential projects and initiatives and/or work on fundraising or web development!
Apply here if you are interested.
You also don’t have to be a member to support us! You can support by attending our events and/or submitting one of your works to our open creative work submission form!
PAST PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES
Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
DISPARITY: MINDING THE GAP
Spring 2024 Exhibition at the Cambridge Innovation Center
May 5, 2024 - May 12, 2024
The Zora Foundation will be holding our opening reception for our social justice art exhibition at the Weston AIC venue in Spring 2024 dedicated to highlighting economic inequalities and advocating for intersectional approaches towards change on the socioeconomic issues.
The exhibition will feature student works from the Cambridge School of Weston, Weston Public High School, and Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School!
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
APRICITY: BREAKING THE GLASS
Spring 2023 Exhibition at Artists for Humanity
April 23, 2023 - May 1, 2023
The Zora Foundation will be holding our opening reception for our social justice art exhibition at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter venue on April 23, 2023, dedicated to promoting and encouraging change on social discriminatory issues.
The exhibition will feature student works from the Cambridge School of Weston, Governor's Academy, Phillips Academy Andover, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Weston High School, Boston Public Schools and more!
Spring 2023 Magazine Publication
The Zora Foundation officially published our Spring 2023 Apricity: Breaking the Glass literary art magazine focused on addressing social discriminatory issues in April 2023.
The magazine features art and literary works by students from the Cambridge School of Weston, Governor's Academy, Phillips Academy Andover, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Weston High School, Boston Public Schools and more!
To view our magazine on Canva, please click on this link here.
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
ANTHROPOCENE EXHIBITION 2022
Art and Environmental Justice
The Zora Foundation hosted Anthropocene, an art and environmental justice exhibition at the Weston Art and Innovation Center in April 2022.
In collaboration with the Cambridge School of Weston and the Weston High School artists and sustainability groups, we kicked off the event with a presentation on environmental justice issues and sustainable practices.
The exhibition featured student artwork from the two high schools as well as a Q&A panel session where our student leaders and artists answered questions from the attendees and elaborate on their work.
Through this event, we hoped to spread greater social awareness around environmental justice issues and sustainable practices in order to promote an informed and social-minded community.
Environmental Justice Advocacy through the Arts
The Zora Foundation officially published our Spring 2022 Anthropocene literary art magazine focused on spreading greater social awareness around environmental justice issues and sustainable practices in May 2022.
The magazine features art and literary works by students from the Cambridge School of Weston, the Weston High School and more!
Physical magazine copies (74 pages excluding the front and back cover) are currently available for sale for $10.00 per copy. To order a copy, please fill out this order form.
Please support The Zora Foundation and our students' efforts by buying copies for your friends and family and/or sharing the order form link with them and members of our greater community!
To view our magazine on Canva, please click on this link here.
ZORA x EMPTY BOWLS 2022
Empty Bowls Dinner for Rosie's Place Boston
The Zora Foundation collaborated with the Cambridge School of Weston's Empty Bowls team to host an Empty Bowls dinner on June 3, 2022 where we raised $1400 to support Rosie's Place, a non-profit organization in the Boston area that serves as a community center supporting women through providing them with shelter, meals, job search services, legal assistance, and more.
We partnered to assist with the logistical and artistic aspects of the event initiative to contribute our part in fighting local hunger.
SUBMIT YOUR ART!
CREATIVE WORK SUBMISSIONS 2024-25
→ THE GOOGLE FORM ←
Want to advocate for a social issue AND showcase your creativity? Fill out our Google Form for your work to be featured on our Instagram and/or website! You can also @thezorafoundation or use the hashtag #zora to be featured on our Instagram story.
We are looking for any form of creative arts (drawing, painting, film, videos, performance photos, music, dance, illustrations, photography, etc. and any literary works!) that advocates for a cause, shares your experience with an issue
Literary works can be a personal anecdote, an informational or persuasive article on an ongoing issue, creative writing/poetry, etc!
The Zora Foundation will be directing our focus on Economic Inequality for the 2023-24 school year. All submitted works should relate to or address some form of discrimination.
We look forward to seeing your submission! Please feel free to email thezorafoundation.est2021@gmail.com with any questions!
ROLLING SUBMISSIONS
START YOUR OWN ZORA CHAPTER
Want to take an initiative and mobilize your peers for social justice advocacy through the creative arts? Register your student chapter today to get started! Student Chapters meet regularly and take action for specific social justice issues through artistic mediums. Chapters decide on a particular social issue to concentrate and center their work around for the school year then work to partner with aligned school committees and student groups on various projects and initiatives. They partner with local organizations aligned with their focus to avail themselves of professional resources and contacts as well as to support their greater community.
Email thezorafoundation.est2021@gmail.com to get started!