Description:
For
years, advertising guru and SMU professor Willie Baronet has been
fascinated by the signs the homeless use encouraging one to help. His
artistic eye and agency background saw more than a plea—he saw art,
he saw life, he saw humanity. Embracing his desire to create a
'HeART' project, Willie drives cross-country for a month—all the
while buying the signs of the homeless he meets along the way. From
Seattle to San Diego, Vegas to Cincinnati, Philly to New York, and
points in between. Visiting with the people from whom he buys the
signs, Willie meets a cross-section of America. Their common
ground—they have no home. Signs of Humanity follows Willie
and his team throughout this trek. They start in Seattle not knowing
what they are going to find or whom they are going to meet. Their
sole desire—to collect these signs, talk to the homeless, and seek
to discover: 'what does home mean to you?'
Biography: Willie
Baronet is an artist and professor in Dallas, TX. In 2011, he graduated with
an MFA in arts & technology from the University of Texas at
Dallas. He was recently named the Stan Richards Professor of Creative
Advertising at SMU’s Temerlin Advertising Institute. Willie has
been buying and collecting homeless signs since 1993, as part of an
art project called We
are all Homeless.
Tim
Chumley is a photographer and videographer who lives in Southwest Virginia.
After earning a BFA from SMU in 1983, he worked in the advertising
industry and taught at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Adcenter
where he produced twenty-five short-length documentaries and edited
hundreds of TV spots. Since 2006 he has been working in photography
and video. His photos have appeared in publications such as Sports
Illustrated and ESPN
The Magazine.
