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- My Role
- Visual Artist, Craft Artist, Educator, Arts Worker, Arts Supporter
- My Discipline(s)
- Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Culinary Arts
- My Specialties
- Peace Projects, Visionary, collaborative arts workshops, painting murals, lettering, peace, meditation
- About Me And My Work
- I am the founder and executive director of the Create Peace Project. www.createpeaceproject.org I believe in peace and the power of creativity to deepen the practice of peace and to share its message. Let's collaborate!
- Artistic Experiences I Have Had On My Travels
- Earlier this year I worked with 3,000 students from 30 plus schools, orphanages, and organizations doing art for peace workshops. Each student created an original peace card, sharing art and a message of peace. Those peace cards will go to students in India, along with 10,000 others that are being created by students in the US now.
- Places I Would Like To Visit
- India, Nepal, Tibet, all of Africa, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan
- Art Forms And Cultures I Would Like To Engage With
- Tribal, African, Pop Abstract, anything with authentic cultural traditions, visual arts focus
- My Creative Influences & Favorite Artists
- Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Raushenberg, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns
- My Web link
- http://www.createpeaceproject.org
Ross Holzman's Blog
The Peace Exchange Project
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 9:00am 2 Comments 0 Favorites
earlier this year I spent three months in Uganda. I took with me a project I started called the Peace Exchange and with it more than 3,000 peace cards, works of art and messages of peace as created by students from schools across the US.
the time I spent in Uganda was rich. I worked in about 30 schools, orphanages, and community groups. I saw classrooms of 100 - 150 to a single teacher. I saw buildings of brick and mortar where the students sat on the dirt floor. No where…
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