Monday, November 11, 2019

The Peace Project




The Peace Project
On Display October 25 – December 14, 2019

As global citizens, we have a responsibility to uphold kind, civil behavior and develop empathy towards our natural environment and one another.  How we do that and what that looks like is imperative for world peace.  The Peace Project is a social practice artistic venture designed to create awareness of our role in peacemaking through dialogue and art making.


The project was presented as a Virginia Tech Perspective Gallery Pop Up Art Event at music festivals, farmers markets, nature centers, galleries, and schools between May 2018 – November 2019.  Participants were asked to create drawings of their visions of peace while dialoguing about how we can all be a "piece" of the solution to peace. 
The Peace Project suggests a “walk your talk” process for taking small daily actions towards becoming a peace practitioner.  This simple, approachable assignment required people to draw on an 8.5 x 5.5-inch blank puzzle with Sharpie markers. Over 700 puzzles were submitted towards the final installation at the Virginia Tech Perspective Gallery on display now. 


Suggesting the “pillars of peace,” the drawings are installed on brightly colored wooden columns throughout the gallery. 


On adjacent black painted walls are two interactive “peace poetry” alcoves.  Patrons are asked to interact during the exhibition by writing three words of peace on large puzzle shaped paper to add to other community members' words. 
The large public poem, and 700 (+) puzzles, suggest that we are all linked as a community and that simple actions create big results over time.

 

-Robin Scully
 Curator, Perspective Gallery

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