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Posts for

and Justice Project

by KIRA CARRILLO CORSER

How can you be creative in the communication of love, family, hope and peace?

What does peace mean to you? How can we have a stronger voice using color,

composition, empathy and design?

Thunderclouds rolled over the White House, tugging at Over 100 students, teachers and families suggested
our nearby tent at the WCF. Energy sparked our imagi- inspiring words in Japanese, Russian, Turkish and
nations as we excitedly painted colorful, creative, and Hindi to mix with English on the painted posts. People
meaningful Posts for Peace and Justice while discussing personalized their creative commitments to the future
questions of human rights and social justice. Volunteer as they traced their own hands on the post with friends,
art teachers helped kids and adults paint on three 8-foot family and strangers. They drew symbols of kindness
x 5-inch fence posts. and love: butterflies, hummingbirds, hearts, flowers
and peace signs.
One young artist said, “I think peace is being kind.”
Another added, “We like the black and white stark-
ness of our flowers as a symbol of peace and balance of
harmony.” A participant added, “I want to draw peace
signs with my friends.” They repeated the words of the
ICAF Chairman Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq written on the top
of a POST: “Together, creativity and empathy are
preconditions for a just, prosperous, and nonviolent
world.”3

Kira Carrillo Corser and Lisa Parsons are
Co-founders of www.PostsforPeaceAndJustice.org

26 ChildArt | October 2015