Drawing for Peace would like to invite you to make a drawing for peace.

Think for a moment about peace.
What do you imagine? What is it like?
Is it an abstract feeling or a memory of childhood?
Is it a song on a summer night or the vast sublime horizon or a friend's eyes or a dream of compassionate humanity or a bird hopping through and around barbed wire? Could it be a drawing?
Drawing for Peace wants to inspire individuals to express their interpretations of peace through drawing.

Poetic Terrorism: Thomas Paine Park

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Drawings for Peace challenge New York Department of Corrections

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After the detention van rolled over a drawing for peace. It was decided to boot/detain the van in order to prevent it from running over any other drawings in the future.

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Smile and Draw for Peace: NYC

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Lafayette and 14th: Night

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Union Square: A Bird Knows No Barbed Wire…

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Poetic Terrorism

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Beware of poetic terrorism it may make you think.

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Daily we walk on a geometric history rooted in Babylon and do not know it.
Daily we are apart of the destruction of the lands and people of Babylon and do nothing.

Paris is for peace…

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New Yorkers want peace too: Central Park, New York City

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These drawings are from passer byes of all ages that wanted to make a plea for peace with chalk drawings in Central Park.

Heart Peace

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Drawing For Peace in Champaign IL

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"Public Messages" are a collection of visual messages for peace. These messages are created in public spaces and directed to the general public. The messages are not a permanent instillations but instead deteriorating momentary struggles for peace. By functioning as a momentary tactic in the midst of the motion of the everyday the drawing for peace claims a space for thought, meditation, and PEACE that can resist its own dogma.

Directions:

  1. Think about peace.
  2. Find a public space that you believe can communicate a message for peace.
  3. Make a drawing for peace in that space with chalk or other handy mark making material.
  4. Document the drawing in any way you see fit.
  5. Send us your documentation with your name, the location of drawing, and any other necessary information either by email EMAIL or straight to our mailing address:

    Drawing for Peace
    c/o Aaron Hughes
    2541 Fontana Dr.
    Glenview, IL 60025

    Please note: only send us your work via the mail if you cannot provide copies in an electronic format. Work sent via mail will take much longer to be posted to the site. Materials sent will not be returned unless return shipping is included.
  6. We will post your drawing for peace on this page.

Email aarhughes@gmail.com with any questions.