ART AND PEACE
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Contemporary Peace Art & Expression
Art, Buddhism and the Dimensions of Consciousness
AWAKE, a multi-phase, non-sectarian program looks at the common ground between the creative mind, the perceiving mind, and the meditative mind. Its two-year series of consortium meetings explored the relationships between Buddhist practice and art practice in America.
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The world's largest universal symbol of peace is the goal of the Maitreya Project.
Other Artists Focused on Peace
Crossing the great divide
"Music-making like this can and does change lives." From a story in the Manchester Guardian.
Yo! What happened to peace?
An expanded version of a show by the same name in Tokyo in May 2003, this is a touring exhibition of peace/anti-war/anti-occupation posters, featuring hand-crafted prints.
Film festival in a war zone
From an article in the Manchester Guardian.
Picasso created one of the worlds most recognized peace symbols, the Dove of Peace. The Picasso Museum in Barcelona is a good place to start in helping to understand his formative years.
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The Big Book for Peace: an anthology for children that brings together 34 artists and writers. Available from Amazon.com.
Community Initiatives
A political non-violent statement that uses light as a metaphor (August 30, 2004).
Each August in Japan, people gather to float lanterns in remembrance of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all victims of war.
Interviews with women who were living at, or involved with the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.
Giant Peace Doves
For UN Peace Day (September 21) Jane Goodall inspires us, the world over, to create and fly giant doves of peace.
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Pieces for Peace
More than 150 Palestinian and Israeli youth have met over the last 3 years to create 330 square feet of mosaic.
Peace Walls
The World Wall for Peace is a project that began in Berkeley, California in 1988.
The Peace Wall, a moveable, collaborative painting, is a series of 15'x5' canvas murals that visits cities, schools and events so that people everywhere can include their messages on the wall.
Tibetan Peace Art & Expression
The University of Michigan has a special exhibit of Thankas (they use an alternate spelling, Tanka)
Find out about the Eighty-four Indian Adepts , or Mahasiddhas
Other
Read one version of the origin of the peace symbol, a.k.a. the nuclear disarmament symbol
Peace keeping maps
http://www.un.org/...
What Is Art, Anyway?
"Question": is a thematic exhibition including prints, paintings, sculpture and decorative arts. Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford
One personal view
http://www.artsjournal.com/...