Arts on Purpose Resilience Arts
“Art is the Next Peace: Connecting Communities” 2006 - 2014 - includes my work in 11 cities using art to help communities dealing with domestic violence, gangs and/or war-refugee families from Iraq, Burma, Palestine. www.artconnectingcommunities.org Sponsors and partners included: arts organizations, schools, Migrant Education, churches & colleges. Funding came from the Irvine Foundation, California Endowment, National Geographic, and California Arts Council. 2006 - 2012. Jan - Feb. 2015 this project evolved into working in Atlanta with the Carter Center, M.L. King Center and “One Billion Rising for Justice” - to make 45 (8-ft). “Posts for Peace & Justice,” as a human rights and social justice collaborative online and in tangible art forms and to take this project to every state and in every country by the end of 2016. We are working with One Billion Rising/Atlanta and partnering with people at the Carter Center, Martin Luther King Center, the Atlanta Interfaith Coalition, Atlanta YWCA and other groups. Plus schools in San Diego County and Monterey are applying for funds to participate. Peace Posts will be exhibited in Washington DC in the summer of 2015, when the International Child Art Festival takes place on the National Mall. The exhibit of posts will be at the Corner Store Arts Center with special thanks to Director and artist Kris Swanson.
“Art is the Next Peace: Connecting Communities” 2006 - 2014 - includes my work in 11 cities using art to help communities dealing with domestic violence, gangs and/or war-refugee families from Iraq, Burma, Palestine. www.artconnectingcommunities.org Sponsors and partners included: arts organizations, schools, Migrant Education, churches & colleges. Funding came from the Irvine Foundation, California Endowment, National Geographic, and California Arts Council. 2006 - 2012. Jan - Feb. 2015 this project evolved into working in Atlanta with the Carter Center, M.L. King Center and “One Billion Rising for Justice” - to make 45 (8-ft). “Posts for Peace & Justice,” as a human rights and social justice collaborative online and in tangible art forms and to take this project to every state and in every country by the end of 2016. We are working with One Billion Rising/Atlanta and partnering with people at the Carter Center, Martin Luther King Center, the Atlanta Interfaith Coalition, Atlanta YWCA and other groups. Plus schools in San Diego County and Monterey are applying for funds to participate. Peace Posts will be exhibited in Washington DC in the summer of 2015, when the International Child Art Festival takes place on the National Mall. The exhibit of posts will be at the Corner Store Arts Center with special thanks to Director and artist Kris Swanson.