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Since 1994 there have been 90,000 Participants On Seven Continents!

Antilles
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Bosnia
Botswana
Brazil
Burundi
Cameroon
Canada
China
Costa Rica
Cyprus
Denmark
Ecuador
El Salvador
England
Ethiopia
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kenya
Korea
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Mexico
Morocco
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia

Scotland
Senegal
Serbia
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Tibet

Trinidad
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Zimbabwe

The Little Forest School Art Class in Tarragona Spain participated in the 1998 and 2000 Exchanges.

Participating Groups:

Art Councils, Art Centers & Galleries, Artist Cooperatives, Bank Cooperatives, Big Sisters, Brownies & Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Choral & Music Groups, Children's Homes, Children's Museums, Church Groups, Community Groups, Cyprus, Environmental Clubs, Families, Fire Stations, Food Coops, Hospitals, Larnaka, Law Firms, Libraries, Neighborhood Groups, Senior Citizens, Schools (Private & Public, Kindergarten through Graduate), Theatre Groups, Women's Clubs, Youth Programs, YMCA's & YWCA's.
Significant Achievements:
  • The Global Art Project was nominated for a 2002 UNESCO Peace Prize for tolerance & non-violence.

  • In addition to over 90,000 participants who have created and exchanged their heartfelt expressions of love, millions more have been affected through exhibitions, books, slide presentations, hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, television coverage, and the website.

  • Since 1994, the Project has brought together thousands of people in local communities who have come together to create, exhibit and then send their artwork off to form a Global Community.

  • Visions of Global Unity: Inspired Images from the Global Art Project, a book of 30 images from the first exchange is being sold in The United Nations Bookshop NY and other venues.

  • Over 150 Regional Coordinators are organizing Global Art Project activities in their part of the world.

  • Inspiring Global Art Project posters are now available to promote peace.

  • Hundreds of thousands of paper hands for peace have been created and sent to the Global Art Project for Let’s All Join Hands.

Sowing the Seeds of Peace...
  • Drummers and dancers in Senegal and a group of women in Iraq created their personal expressions of peace for the 2008 exchange.

  • Artists in Minsk, Belarus with children in a sanitorium being rehabilitated from the Chernobyl disaster created a group artwork titled: The Future in Children's Eyes--Without Chernobyl and Hiroshima.

  • The Taipei National University of the Arts in Taipei hosted an exhibition of 600 works of art from GAP participants in Taiwan. The art was exhibited in the form of a round dome with works representing the world joining together in The Land Of No Boundaries.

  • Peace Corps workers organized the participation of many individuals, groups and schools in Morocco for the 2006 and 2008 exchanges.

  • 30 installation and performance artists, poets, dancers, and musicians in Bandung, Indonesia gave a performance called Rites for the Earth.

  • 280 people in Hiroshima, Japan participated in 1996. They were excited to participate in this event for Peace during the time of the anniversary of the atomic bombing.

  • The cardiology department of a VA Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, in association with the Duke University Medical Center, created a group artwork with the understanding that by healing relationships we heal the heart.

  • Members of a Tibetan artists' guild in Lhasa exchanged art with a retreat center in Jackson, Michigan. 30 Tibetan refugee children in Kathmandu, Nepal exchanged art with children in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

  • "International Dance Network", a troupe of 80 dancers in Japan, created and videotaped a GAP performance.

  • The Tucson Museum of Art hosted a comprehensive GAP Exhibition Sept/Oct, 1999. KUAT-TV, broadcast out of the University of Arizona, produced a 10-minute video of the exhibition that aired on PBS. The video may be purchased to show in classrooms.
 
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