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Posts for Peace and Justice featured in International Magazine
Our Washington DC workshop was featured in the magazine of the International Child Art Foundation! For copies or more information see: https://www.icaf.org/childart/
World Children’s Art Festival & International Child Art Foundation
Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq, Executive Chairman of the International Child Art Foundation. The Posts for Peace and Justice Project leaders, Kira Carrillo Corser and Lisa Parsons, where thrilled when 10 teachers volunteered and travelled to help teach a workshop on the Ellipse of...
The Importance of Learning from Those Different from Ourselves
The collaborators who worked on this post believe that education and freedom are important human rights. This is what they wrote: The Importance of Learning From That Different From Ourselves – Peace and Justice We have the right to have our own thoughts. ...
Post: Affordable Health Care is a Human Right
Health Access post words This post was started in Big Sur, in Monterey County, California, where the Affordable Health Care Act is not accepted by many doctors and hospitals. The small clinic in Big Sur has been overwhelmed with people who drive the hour from Monterey...
Posts for Peace and Justice Project – Genesis
The creation of the Posts for Peace and Justice Project occurred when Kira Carrillo Corser met Lisa Parson at Marcia Weider’s Wealthy Visionaries conference in Los Angeles in July 2014. While viewing pictures of Kira’s garden posts in “Garden Arts Imaginative Ideas”,...
Our Mission:
To support and build individual and community resilience, engagement, compassion, and cohesiveness, through creative, collaborative, inclusive experiences exploring and artfully representing relevant peace & social justice issues.
Using 6-8 foot vinyl posts made in workshops, “posted” in social media, and “hosted” in a variety of physical settings in an effort to raise awareness and stimulate thought and conversation leading to raising consciousness and taking action to resolve injustices.
This film is part of our plan for a documentary. It includes a sample of images from 3 of the communities participating in art, all striving to believe in the American Dream. (M.L.King Dream)
We are raising funds to complete INTERVIEWS AND EDITING with 3 diverse communities in California – INDIGENOUS WEAVERS FROM MEXICO NOW LIVING IN GREENFIELD; REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT KIDS LIVING IN EL CAJON AND FALLBROOK; AND BLACK YOUTH WITH LOS ANGELES POLICE, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS.
Using 6-8 foot vinyl posts made in workshops, “posted” in social media, and “hosted” in a variety of physical settings in an effort to raise awareness and stimulate thought and conversation leading to raising consciousness and taking action to resolve injustices.
Posts are generally made as a collaborative effort with everyone adding something to the completion of the post. We encourage diversity in participants to embrace multiple perspectives and greater universal understanding of the issues.
Every post has at least one professional artist who aids in development, design, application, final touches, and relaying principles of effective art techniques and principles.
Posts generally will include powerful, inspirational quotes: informational, eye-opening facts: visual stories: meaningful symbols; hand-prints of those involved in making or supporting the ideas on the post.
Lesson plans, workshop suggestions and templates, and educational videos will be available soon. If you would like to be involved please contact us!