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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