Media
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For Immediate Release
May 2021
Contact: Cheryl Miller
46millionturkeys@gmail.com
46 Million Portraits Showcase Turkeys as Individuals!
MAINE – 46 Million Turkeys is an ongoing community participatory art project. The project’s aim—with help from the community—is to create a collection of portraits honoring each one of the estimated 46 million turkeys who will be raise, killed and consumed on a single Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Most people’s experience with a turkey is a headless carcass on a plate. The 46 Million Turkeys Project is putting a face on these individual birds through portraiture.
Everyone is welcome to submit portraits—you do not have to be an “artist” to participate. Participants are encouraged to use recycled materials (but no animal products, e.g. feathers, sea shells, or leather please) and create portraits measuring 2” x 2” in any medium.
For guidelines, ideas, and a submission form: https://46millionturkeys.com/
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Images can be found on the project website: https://46millionturkeys.com/ and Flikr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/94013947@N03/
46 Million Turkeys Makes News
Television
Interview with Amy Sinclair from New England Cable News (NECN.com) http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/_NECN__Maine_Artist_Celebrates_the_Turkey_in_Vegan-friendly_Way_NECN-252428211.html
WMTV 8 ABC http://www.wmtw.com/news/hallowell-gallery-shows-off-turkey-portraits/23191554
Publications/Blogs/Web
Maine Animal Coalition Newsletter
Clawtheory Post: http://www.clawtheory.com/paws-for-the-cause-46millionturkeys/
The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/18/46-million-turkeys_n_6177978.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/18/46-million-turkeys_n_6177978.html?utm_hp_ref=green
Artnet News: http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/art-project-paints-thanksgiving-turkeys-as-friends-not-food-173932
The 46 Million Turkeys Project was feature in the 2013 Fall/Winter edition of United Poultry Concerns newsletter Poultry Press (http://www.upc-online.org/pp/winter2013/)
The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-nessel/finding-the-goodness-in-everything_b_4235968.html
Kulturen (German online magazine): http://kulturjournalismus.de/2013/12/die-ehre-des-truthahns/
Also in German: http://www.juliabeutling.de/wordpress2/wandelbild-zum-mitmachen-ein-herz-fuer-puten/
United Poultry Concerns: http://www.upc-online.org/turkeys/
The Maine Edge: http://www.themaineedge.com/buzz/happenings/maine-artist-hopes-to-fill-gallery-with-46-million-turkeys-this-thanksgiving
Boothbay Register: http://www.boothbayregister.com/article/thanksgiving-46-million-turkeys-harlow-gallery/20273
The Cryer: http://thecryeronline.com/currentnews/4230-46-million-turkeys-the-exhibition.html
Spirit of Change Magazine: http://www.spiritofchange.org/blog/46-million-turkeys
Our Hen House: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2013/08/call-for-submissions-the-46-million-turkeys-project/
Main Street Vegan: http://mainstreetvegan.net/a-new-and-compassionate-thanksgiving-tradition-no-its-not-too-early/
Static Void Games: http://staticvoidgames.com/blog/viewEntry.jsp?entry=NovembersMotivator46MillionTurkeyProject
Radio
Maine Public Broadcasting Network: http://www.mpbn.net/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ViewItem/mid/5347/ItemId/31138/Default.aspx
Animal Voices (radio) “Tribute to Turkeys”: http://animalvoices.org/2013/10/layla-abdelrahim-tribute-to-turkeys/
http://animalvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/shows/AnimalVoices_2013-10-11.mp3
All Things Vegan Radio: http://allthingsveganradio.org/2013/09/24/all-things-vegan-show-notes-sep-24-2013-mark-hawthorne-on-his-upcoming-book-bleating-hearts-and-nava-atlas-on-the-art-of-healthy-vegan-cooking/