To honor Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the chapter of the American Medical Women's Association on the campus of the USC Keck School of Medicine invited VIP to join with them in their annual Clothesline Project. Women and children in treatment at VIP who have been victims of or witnesses to domestic violence were invited to turn a plain white t-shirt into an emotional statement with paint, pen and tears. This form of art therapy is a safe medium of self-expression and offers those who have been impacted by violence a chance to make an anonymous but powerful statement to the world.
The finished products were hung on a clothesline and strung across the quad at the Medical School by AMWA members in early December to serve as a reminder to current and future healthcare practitioners on the USC campus about the importance of domestic violence screenings.
Some of the shirts made very powerful statements considering they were designed by children. "I'm mad because people treat people like animals."
The Clothesline Project was started in 1990 by a coalition of women’s organizations in
