The Scrolls
   Charleston painter and printmaker, Mary Walker, started The Scrolls as a reaction to the current state of global politics in order to give artists from around the world a unique voice. Labeled with the purposefully open-ended theme of “WHY?”, packages of materials and forwarding instructions were sent via FedEx to artists and printmaking studios throughout the world. As more artists became involved and the project gained attention, the scrolls became a rolling conversation and collaboration between artists in disparate lands, each artist adding their contribution in the form of a print, drawing, or text. The result was a visual discourse on war, torture, bombings, and the questions surrounding troubling issues of human rights. Both national and international artists have added their voice to the scrolls, which have traveled from Charleston to studios in New York, Washington, Columbia, Savannah, San Francisco, Chicago, McCllelanville, Baltimore, Ohio, Massachusetts, Vermont, Italy, and Bagdad..