The Pinwheels for Peace Project
Hand-painted pinwheelswill be available for purchase at the Festival!!!
Imagine... whirled peace!
In today’s world, peace needs to be more than just a word.
Imagine… millions of pinwheels spinning in the wind – pinwheels in the United States, Great Britain, South America, Australia, the Middle East, Canada, Africa, Europe and Asia; pinwheels all over the world! – big pinwheels, small pinwheels; pinwheels of all shapes and sizes – colorful pinwheels, decorated with drawings, paintings, collages, photographs – pinwheels with words of peace and harmony written on them – fields of pinwheels, pinwheels along roadsides, in schoolyards, in parks, pinwheels EVERYWHERE!
This is the Pinwheels for Peace project!
Please join us on International Day of Peace, September 21st, as we create a visual public statement about peace!
It is our hope that through the Pinwheels for Peace Project, we can make a public visual statement about our feelings about war/ peace/ tolerance/ cooperation/ harmony/ unity and, in some way, maybe, awaken the public and let them know what we are thinking.
This is not political. Peace doesn’t necessarily have to be associated with the conflict of war, it can be related to violence/intolerance in our daily lives, to peace of mind. To each of us, peace can take on a different meaning, but, in the end, it all comes down to a simple definition: a state of calm and serenity, with no anxiety, the absence of violence, freedom from conflict or disagreement among people or groups of people.
Excerpt from : http://www.pinwheelsforpeace.com
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Thank you to all the artists who hand-painted pinwheels for the Festival!
Artists include.....
- Lynn Millsap Clark
- Goose Fedders
- Mary Hudgins
- Helen Kwiatkowski
- Mel Millsap
- Barbara Sorge
- UMHB art students (Barbara Fontaine-White)
- Belton HS art students