Media Highlights

The Soul Box Project is making news across the country.

See where and how dedicated ARTivists are using Soul Boxes to visualize the scale of gun violence.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Visitors and volunteers gather for the Soul Box Project, an art installation representing victims of gun violence, at the Mall in D.C. on Oct. 16.

WASHINGTON, D.C. More than 200,000 Soul Boxes were on display at the National Mall. CBS Mornings visited the exhibit and talked to parents who made Soul Boxes for their children, lost to gunfire.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The touring exhibit spanned the National Mall, demonstrating that each loss is one we all carry. “Everyone is impacted.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. Almost 200,000 Soul Boxes lined the National Mall, representing lives lost and injured in the U.S. over the last 3 years. “The gun violence is just unexplainable, right?”

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan. On average, gun violence takes more than 1,200 lives each year in Michigan and 2021 is on pace to be the worst year in decades. This entry in the city-wide ArtPrize festival displays 8,800 Soul Boxes.

Creator Leslie Lee is now planning to take 200,000 boxes to the country’s capitol for an installation at the National Mall. Each box represents a person who has been killed or injured by guns in the last three years alone in the U.S.

Our Portland preview of This Loss We Carry featured 70,000 Soul Boxes representing one year of U.S. gunfire deaths and injuries. This exhibit was approximately one-third the size of the exhibit scheduled for the National Mall on October 16 and 17, 2021.

An exhibit at the Bronx Art Space, NY, includes Soul Box Project and numerous other works that address gun violence.

At the Maryland State House, Moms Demand Action displays an exhibit of Soul Boxes honoring 724 Maryland victims of gun violence.

Two Chicago, IL, women fold Soul Boxes in remembrance of loved ones and too many lives lost to gunfire.  “I think we need to feel emotion about it. Maybe that’ll help.”

Portland’s popular morning show interviews a father who has found solace in folding Soul Boxes after losing his teenage son to suicide.

Clips of interviews from various news channels with Artist and Founder of Soul Box Project, Leslie Lee.

A Baltimore, MD, mother finds meaningful respite in The Soul Box Project during her ongoing efforts to receive justice for the police shooting of her son.

Artist and Soul Box Project founder, Leslie Lee, and Sacramento trauma surgeon, Lily DiGiacomo, explore the significance of this empathetic art project to health care workers.