This is a high quality fine art print of the original art piece entitled "Coming Together" by glass artist Judy Schecter.  The print captures the original 2-D glass piece created for the Who Are our Neighbors? National Endowment of the Arts funded "Our Town" grant exhibit.  
 
The piece is globally oriented, asking the question "how do we build bridges and get to know each other, work together, stop violent actions, stop the hateful rhetoric, and find common ground?" This piece explores the hard work of building bridges, inspired by the work of Dallas Rabbi Nancy Kasten and all those she reaches out to, bringing them together, putting their hands and hearts together to find mutuality.  Where is compassion, reflection, conversation, understanding, and humanity? It’s in the hands of our bridge-builders. We can all be bridge-builders.
 
“Coming Together” is a reflection on these thoughts, and continued to question why this world seems trapped in a cycle of hatred, division, prejudice, and disdain.  What is happening to us? What would it take to break this cycle of chaos and allow us to come together and be tolerant and accepting of one another?  The hands portrayed in this piece are the actual plaster hands of Rabbi Kasten, Hillary Evans, Jadd Hashem, and others who have not only helped in the creation of this piece, but who create bridges of understanding in their work. 
 
The hands also represent the bridge building underway.  They are holding the fragile strands of glass that represent the different colors, ideologies, thoughts, and feelings of people coming together to construct the bridge.  The work of building bridges is fragile.  Some hands are holding hearts, some, what might look like DNA.  We are more alike than we are different.  The flowing water made of glass under the bridge is sometimes turbulent and sometimes still, but the work keeps flowing.  It invites viewers to take a long, hard look and examine where they fit in – a hand across the bridge?  In the turbulent waters? Is your heart in it?
 
This gorgeous and inspirational piece is reproduced here as a high quality fine art print on matte paper, and with a 1" white border all around.  Frame not included.