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Since
1994 there have been 90,000 Participants On Seven Continents!
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Antilles
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Bosnia
Botswana
Brazil
Burundi
Cameroon |
Canada
China
Costa Rica
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
Portugal
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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
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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, Environmental Clubs, Families,
Fire Stations, Food Coops, Hospitals, 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 78,000 participants who have created 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 came 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
100 Regional Coordinators are organizing Global Art Project
activities in their part of the world.
- The
Global Art Project website was established to share a selection
of the visions of global unity created by participants and
to share local Project activities by participants.
Sowing
the Seeds of Peace...
- 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
National Institute 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 exchange. The Project
has established a Peace Corps Coordinator for future 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.
- Volunteers
strung together thousands of paper hands from around the world
for Let's All Join Hands.
- "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. 6,000 people visited the exhibition. KUAT-TV, broadcast
out of the University of Arizona, produced a 10-minute video
of the exhibition that aired on PBS. Teachers may purchase
the video to show in classrooms.
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