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cindy maguire commented on the blog post 'The Peace Exchange Project'"Thank you for sharing this Ross. I look forward to seeing the Teacher's Resource. Maybe we can create a data base of this kind of work - to share and to promote the projects. Much of the resource materials I've found related to peace and…"
Ross Holzman commented on the group 'Arts and Peacebuilding'"Does anyone on this list know someone who would like to support 20,000 kids leaning peace practices and sharing art and messages of peace, shooting a documentary film to tell the story, publishing a book of the wisdom and art, and publishing a…"
Sarah Queblatin commented on the blog post 'The Peace Exchange'"Great! modules are important! I would love to pledge but as a non-profit peace worker I have very limited funds to survive. Also designing my own fundraiser for a backpacking Asian art project. But I send good energies to this initiative! Peace :-)"
Ross Holzman commented on the group 'Arts and Peacebuilding'"Have you pledged your support for this global peace project? We've worked with more than 7,000 students and are fundraising to take this initiative to India and Pakistan in the new year to work with another 10,000…"
Ashok Sinha left a comment for 'Ross Holzman'"ross, great to find you here ... let me know if we can work together on a project."
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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
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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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- At 1:29pm on November 16, 2010, Ashok Sinha said…
- ross, great to find you here ... let me know if we can work together on a project.
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