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Friend and fellow artist Jeremy Penn alerted me to a new art competition/exhibition entitled “The Peace Project”. About this initiative:

“What’s your vision of peace? Soldiers laying down their arms? The smile of a child who’s overcome the trauma of war? Picasso’s famous dove? Or something more abstract yet just as powerful?

That’s the challenge – and promise – of The Peace Project from The Whole 9, an international collaborative art competition and exhibition created to connect peace-minded individuals everywhere. Artists from around the world, working in diverse mediums, are invited to submit their creative interpretations of peace. This collective vision will be unveiled September 21, 2010 at a press event at Gallery 9 in Los Angeles, followed by an opening reception on Saturday, September 25. The exhibit will subsequently travel to San Francisco and New York in conjunction with a simultaneous online exhibition.

It’s no coincidence that the premiere date of The Peace Project is on World Peace Day. World Peace Day was conceived by filmmaker Jeremy Gilley, who inspired the 192 member states of the United Nations to come together and celebrate this annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence. In that same spirit of inclusion and collaboration, The Peace Project speaks to the power of art and the power of community to take a stand against the indefensible paradigm of endless war, torture and killing; of people fighting and dying for causes most don’t understand; of countries and families left in chaos.

The Peace Project aims to refute the notion that peace is no longer possible in an increasingly contentious world. More importantly, it seeks to inspire in people the belief that they can make a contribution towards achieving universal peace.”

Check out my entry here, my friends Jeremy Penn and Jerry Shawback; as well as all of the entries submitted.