Using art as a wake-up call about ending gun violence


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A collection of death certificates.

Bullet shell casings in a jar.

A mother, running to her child at a shooting scene.

“Most of the work is made out of decommissioned gun parts,” explains Nikki McComb, the co-founder of ‘Art Is My Weapon,’ a Minneapolis nonprofit.

These graphic pieces of art are all part of an exhibit called ‘Fragments Reimagined’ at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.   

The works on display are graphic, and some might say, disturbing.

But that’s all part of the idea: to be a wake-up call about gun violence in Minnesota.  

“Art can change the trajectory of someone’s thought processes and has changed the trajectory processes primarily with some of the youth we work with,...

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