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The Mission of the Global Art Project for Peace is to joyously create a culture of peace through art. The hands may be created and sent to GAP at any time.

Participants create a work of art, in any medium, expressing their vision of global peace and goodwill. The art is displayed locally in each participant's community. Global Art Project then organizes an international exchange by matching participants-group-to-group and individual-to-individual. The exchange occurs April 23-30 biennially, resulting in thousands of people sending messages of Peace a

round the world at one time-visions of unity simultaneously encircle the Earth The art is sent as a gift of global friendship and exhibited in the receiving community. Participants may send documentation of the art created and of the people who came together to create the art to the GAP Art Bank. Global Art Project exhibitions, books, slide presentations, and a website give people an opportunity to experience visions of peace and unity created by individuals from diverse cultures around the world. Another element of the Project - Let's All Join Hands - was added in 1998. People are invited to send a paper outline of their hand with their name, country, and wish for global peace, love, and friendship on it to the Global Art Project. Volunteers in Tucson string the hands together as a visual expression of the thousands of people who join their energy together to create Peace. The paper hands are exhibited as a source of inspiration and a book of paper hands - The Handbook for Peace - is planned for publication.

03/05/2026

- 2024 Gallery has been posted! -

Images from the 2024 Global Art Project for Peace exchange have been posted in the 2024 Gallery on the Project website!

Click the thumbnails on the gallery page to view many additional images and to read about the art and the artists.
https://www.globalartproject.org/galleries/gallery.php

05/15/2025

Kyiv Peace Museum 2024 Global Art Project for Peace Exhibition.
“We arranged the Summary Exhibition of the Global Art Project for Peace 2024. Participants received artworks from the USA, Canada, and China. It's really important to feel the spirit of friendship and peace nowadays. We also had a lovely concert by the Miski Mayo Group.

"Here you can find the information about the event https://peacekeeping-centre.in.ua/Peace_Museum/news/2025/gap2025.php also visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5o14kcKc4U for the video.”
Marina Bilosludtseva, Kyiv Peace Museum

06/04/2024

Kyiv Peace Museum, Ukraine. Opening of the Global Art Project for Peace exhibition. Art created for the 2024 exchange by Ukrainian participants before being sent to their exchange partners. Exhibition at the museum was organized by Marina Bilosludtseva, Global Art Project for Peace Ukraine Regional Coordinator, who works at the Kyiv Peace Museum.

12/11/2023

Kiev, Ukraine: Global Art Project for Peace Ukraine Regional Coordinator, Marina Bilosludtseva, representing the Kyiv Peace Museum sent us this photo.
“Here is the photo from our last exhibition of Oberigs (Ukrainian amulets for soldiers) - I used the opportunity to promote GAP.”
Kind regards,
Marina

The Kyiv Peace Museum is a new Global Art Project for Peace Regional Coordinator. Marina is in the process of translating the 2024 Global Art Project for Peace brochure into Ukrainian. https://peacekeeping-centre.in.ua/Peace_Museum/ua/news/global-art-project.php

11/09/2023

I was recently interviewed about the Global Art Project for Peace for an Art is Moving podcast. I enjoyed my conversation with Lisa and Lauren and appreciate their work with Art is Moving.

You can listen, watch or read here: https://artismoving.org/world-on-art/

11/03/2023

Kiev, Ukraine: We're excited that the Kyiv Peace Museum is a new Regional Coordinator for the Global Art Project for Peace in Ukraine. “We are happy to represent this Project in Ukraine and invite everybody to join in!”
Check out their web page about the Global Art Project for Peace at: https://peacekeeping-centre.in.ua/Peace_Museum/news/global-art-project.php

10/03/2023

Global Art Project for Peace article in the October SchoolArts Magazine. The magazine goes to 30,000 art teachers. Published just in time for teachers to get excited about their students participating in the upcoming 2024 exchange! The editor contacted me several months ago asking me to write an article about the Project for the magazine’s “Focus In” page.

SchoolArts is a national art education magazine committed to promoting excellence, advocacy, and professional support for educators in the visual arts.

09/15/2023

News from our Global Art Project for Peace Philippines Regional Coordinator, Denise Melanie Du Lagrosa:

“I am sharing photo of my presentation with Miriam College Child Study Center and Grade School art supervisors, music teachers.

“They are excited in participating and sharing about GAP to their students and integrating it in their activities eg. Art Month, Peace week, etc.

“My daughter and I celebrated our birthday in Environmental Studies Institute Conference Room, near the Center for Peace Education within the Miriam School Campus. I placed the GAP sticker on my laptop, and shared the brochures together with the Paper plates and biodegradable spoon and fork wrapped in Japanese paper. I also wore the GAP pin. I placed Manila paper and colored paper as place mat with coloring materials on table.

"We are encouraged to adhere to sustainable practices like waste segregation, recycling or using biodegradable materials in our school campus.

"We celebrated on September 3, alongside NICU Awareness month and Grandparents Day. I crocheted my daughter's blouse and some of the broche symbolizing NICU awareness and blue forget me nots for grandparents.

"We had opening prayer, lighting of angel statue symbolizing Galatea coming to life through the love of God, her parents, family like the story of Galatea coming to life through the love of her sculptor Pygmalion. We had storytelling of my birth story, singing of some songs I wrote, sound Bath. "
Denise Melanie Du Lagrosa, EnP.

08/01/2023

PEACE TO ALL...Art created for the 2022 Global Art Project for Peace Exchange by students at Climbing Tree Community School in Tucson, Arizona, USA facilitated by teacher Anna Kolb.

“Hi, I finally mailed away our project for this year. It’s a banner of the children’s hands holding hearts. It was a little tricky figuring out what to write with exactly 12 hands, but I like what we chose. It’s a little hard to read in the picture, but it says PEACE TO ALL.”
Anna Kolb

Climbing Tree Community School exchanged their art with a group in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

07/24/2023

2022 Global Art Project for Peace Exchange: Grade 8 Art Experience Students at Amherst Middle School
Amherst, New Hampshire, USA

“Attached please find some photos of my grade 8 Art Experience students and the group project they created for the 2022 exchange. The work was sent to The British School in New Delhi, India.

“Here is an excerpt from the letter I sent along with the artwork that describes our process:

‘This project was created by my 8th grade students in the Arts Experience course in the Spring of 2022. They were 16 students who participated in the creation of this work. Students chose to create radial designs that would connect with the work of the other students in the class. While this may seem like a simple task, the students had to come up with HOW the pieces would connect to one another and the parameters or constraints they would be using when making these pieces. This took some time and led to great discussions in class.

‘With regards to the colorful palette and unique design:

‘One of the constraints they decided on as a group was the use of rainbow colors in the background of their work and black ink for their designs. They used colorful oil pastels in happy rainbow colors to symbolize their goodwill and joy. You will see many symbols of peace within their work. Students printed their design five times in total: once to go in this project and then they printed their design four more times to create a complete design of their own to take home.

‘Since we had never shipped to India before, we did encounter some troubles when we went to mail off the package. Even though we had designed our project to be light and small, the sipping companies were quoting us $300USD to ship the work to India. That was too much for our budget. In the letter, I explained what we did:

‘I then brought the artwork back to the students and gave them the challenge–find a way to fit the artwork into a FedEx envelope. The students were disappointed at first, but were up for the challenge! We did lots of research on handmade books, but ultimately, we decided on a solution that came from board game design. We think it works well.’

“I hope you enjoy this work. May peace be with you!”

Brandie Pettus
Visual Arts & Engineering Teacher

05/04/2023

We're excited to announce that Registration for the 2024 Global Art Project for Peace exchange is now OPEN! Register at: www.globalartproject.org/registration/registrationoverview.html
Download posters and brochures for the 2024 exchange at www.globalartproject.org

09/10/2022

Posted by Deborah Benedic, Global Art Project Regional Coordinator in Detroit, Mi USA. Deborah coordinated the participation of the Detroit Society of Women Painters & Sculptors in the Global Art Project exchange.

Deborah Benedic is with Carol Cook Reid and Carole Carpenter at Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery. Detroit, MI

Happy Saturday and May ☮️Be With You☮️ Today is the closing ceremony for the Global Art Project for Peace! Doors open at 1:00-3:00 pm at Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery .Free Parking in the lot that faces Comerica in the lot behind Central United Methodist Church Detroit.
I will be reading a poem at 1:30 to reinforce our need for peace and also to thank Maria Artisi Kennedy's who suggested that Detroit Society of Women Painters & Sculptors restart our participation in this worthy project! This project has been founded by Katherine Josten With the vision that through the exchange of art in the spirit of peace, we can bring our world to a better place♥️🙏♥️
Finally, I would like to thank the talented, hardworking and good-hearted Carol Cook Reid who also invited her fellow members at United Methodist Church to join the DSWPS in this venture. Carol also was the one who found us the venue and which to display what we exchanged with Toronto and Australia. We would be personally honored if you showed up today for the closing. In addition, I would be personally thankful if you would help me take the lovely art pieces off the wall. If you bring a child with you, I will be glad to share one with him or her. These beautiful and thoughtful expressions of peace have been thoughtfully constructed by children From all over the world. Behind me in this photo are DSWPS artworks that we exchanged with these two countries. All of the effort and hanging the show is also appreciated. And today is the day we say, "Peace Out" but the spirit of each and every work will remain in our hearts. ☮️♥️☮️♥️☮️♥️☮️♥️☮️♥️☮️♥️

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160,000 participants in 99 countries on seven continents have created and exhibited art for the exchanges. 200 Regional Coordinators around the world help to spread the word in their area.

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