The Path to Peace

Student from Blue Mountain School, Floyd, VA

The Path to Peace is an art exhibit celebrating Martin Luther King Junior’s legacy of building strong communities through peaceful action.

Children and teens within a 50 mile radius of the Virginia Tech campus were invited to create artworks which reflected on the following quote by Dr. King:

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”

The artwork is laid out in a continuous line on the gallery walls, showing how each step in the “path to peace" is created through our individual peaceful acts.

Opening on Tuesday January 19th at 12 p.m.  and running through February 27, 2016 the gallery is open Tuesday - Saturday from 12 p.m. - 9 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.  We are closed on Mondays.  

There will be a reception for the artists on Thursday January 21, 2016 from 5 -7 p.m. which is free and open to the public.  Accoustic music by Eric Lanoue will accompany the event.  

Students from the following schools participated in the project:

Dayspring Christian Academy, Blacksburg, Virginia
Blue Mountain School, Floyd, Virginia
St. John Newmann Academy, Blacksburg, Virginia
Christiansburg High School, Christiansburg, Virginia
Pulaski Middle School, Pulaski, Virginia
Belle Heth School, Radford Virginia
Macy McClaugherty Elementary/Middle School, Giles County Virginia
Falling Branch Elementary School, Montgomery County Virginia
Blacksburg New School, Blacksburg, Virginia
LoCo Arts Afterschool Program, Newport, Virginia
Freeschool CAIO Art Class, Blacksburg, Virginia