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

Poultry Press 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