Focus on Arts and Ecology

Join Our Aug 10 National Peacebuilder Call

Inspiration, Education, and Motivation to Mobilize for Peace  

5:30 PT/7:30 CT/8:30 ET 

Hi Jon,     

Dr. Ellen Frank is a change agent using art as a driver of peaceful coexistence among former enemies, people from conflict zones, children of parents who murdered each other, and marginalized populations, even those having no language in common. Beauty, collaborative art, and creativity become doorways to peace.

Just click and join on the night of the call. No registration required.

AUG 10: CITIES OF PEACE ILLUMINATED founded by Dr. Ellen Frank

CITIES OF PEACE ILLUMINATED

In 2004/2005, Dr. Ellen Frank, Ph.D. Artist, Scholar and Writer founded Ellen Frank Illumination Arts Foundation, Inc. and Cities of Peace Illuminated to build a global culture of peace and understanding through the power of the visual arts. Her pioneering work is among the first organizations to combine art and social justice. 

Cities of Peace Illuminated is a change agent, using art as a driver of peaceful coexistence among former enemies, people from conflict zones, children of parents who murdered each other, and marginalized populations, even those having no language in common. “We build transformative change through peacebuilding and human rights education, cultural diplomacy, and interdisciplinary inquiry, all of which we do while we are creating museum quality monumental gold-illuminated paintings. Beauty, participatory collaborative arts engagement, and creativity become doorways to peace.”

Just click and join on the night of the call. No registration required.

Tonight will focus on Cities of Peace Illuminated. The Breathing Project is getting started and you can find more on the website by clicking on The Breathing Project.

MORE ABOUT DR. ELLEN FRANK PH.D.

Dr. Frank studied art history and connoisseurship at Yale University, the Courtauld and Warburg Institutes, and holds an interdisciplinary doctorate in English Literature and the Visual Arts from Stanford University. Dr. Frank was Assistant Professor of English Literature at UC Berkeley where she co-designed and created the first interdisciplinary major “Literature and the Visual Arts." She was guest Associate Professor at Barnard College and Rutgers University; and Visiting Professor at School of Visual Arts and Tyler School of Art. Dr. Frank has received many awards in painting, book design, and scholarship, including a Fulbright Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Ford Foundation Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Award in Painting, New York State Council on the Arts, and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant.

Your Partner in Peace, 

Kathy L Kidd

National Field Coordinator