Walls of Hope
Built on conflict resolution, crime prevention, diplomacy building, community development and preservation of historic memory.
The community art projects created in the Perquin Model focus on the challenges posed by inter-communal and societal conflicts in today’s world.
Our mission is to bring greater awareness through shared town meetings and through the planning of collaborative art interventions and public art pieces.
The collaborative art projects recover historic memory while providing artistic skills and practical expertise in a new model of art education.
The mandate of our school is to create bridges of collaboration with local and political agencies that will welcome art as a contribution of social planning, to develop leadership roles among the participants, especially the youth who will face the challenge to grow up in a collapsed economic scenario threatened by poverty and unemployment.
Through art and creative praxis, children and youth focus on conflict resolution envisioning a proposition for endurable peace.
San Francsico, CA
Donors
Lynne Elizabeth I am glad to support Walls of Hope and the healing process inherent in their mural projects. It is beautiful how thoughtfully they engage communities that have suffered unspeakable traumas.
Mary Houghteling Mary Rice Patricia Connor