Ross Holzman
  • 37, Male
  • San Francisco, CA
  • United States
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  • Dieudonne AMISI MUTAMBALA
  • Rosetta Jallow
  • Oshilaja Hemsley
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Profile Information

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

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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