Art for Life URLs

Link to GCPMP and Mandala Peace Project sites (pg.216)

Kids Guernica Peace Project information can be accessed at

http://www.kids-guernica.org/ and also at

http://www.artjapan.com/GUERNICA-G/

Peace Mandala Project: can be accessed at

http://gomangtour.org. This site gives the history and purposes of the tour and information about healing sand mandalas.

Additional resources for art and peace:

Omega Institute home site has excellent peace quotes from Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and others, at http://www.eomega.org/popups/peaceQuotes.html.

The American Visionary Art Museum, 800 Key Highway, Baltimore MD, Phone 410-244-6500, has a wonderful packet for educators, called "War and Peace", available online at http://www.avam.org/exhibitions/warandpeace.html.

The Journal of Social Research in Art Education, 19-20, available from United States Society for Education Through Art, at http://www.public.asu.edu/~ifmls/usseafolder/back.html This double issue, in response to 9-11-01, a peace theme issue, includes: Intercultural art education offers a means to promote tolerance and understanding, by Enid Zimmerman; Same time, next year? Reflections on post-cataclysmic art education, by Renee Sandell; Nurturing humaneness through art education by E. Louis Lankford; Post 9/11: politics, diversity, and multiculturalism in art education, by Elizabeth Garber; Classroom life after terrorism: Where do we go from here? By Lynn Galbraith; Contrasts and comparisons: Before and after the events of September 11, 2001, by Arthur Efland; Visual culture and the conduct of war by Paul Duncum; Clarity of perception: Intracultural understanding: A Native American perspective, by Steve Willis; Art therapists as peace makers, by David Gussak; The Peace Flag Project by Dipti Desai et al; and articles about the Children's Guernica Peace Mural Project by Takuya Kaneda, Ann Cheng Shiang Kuo, Jerry Pilcher, Michelle Creel, Pio d'Emilia, and Judith Ann and Angela Sullivan, Juliette Tissot-Vidal and Boris Tissot.

Teaching Tolerance, a biannual journal, mailed free to educators who request it, can also be found on the Web at http://www.tolerance.org/teach/. Teaching Tolerance is a publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose primary mission is to promote racial and ethnic tolerance. Issues of Teaching Tolerance have multicultural reference materials, tolerance-related classroom materials, anti-bias professional development resources, and connections to other educators who have a commitment to equity and diversity.