CITYarts Pieces for Piece
Friday, June 14 – Sunday, July 14, 2024
Closing Reception, July 14, 2024 from 2-4pm
HILLES GALLERY, 1st FLOOR
CITYarts is producing a creating a mural in collaboration with Yale School for Art, artists, youth and community members from New Haven, CT in partnership with Creative Arts Workshop. The project consists of CITYarts Pieces for Peace workshop, and exhibition of youth artists, and an external peace mural. The project is within the CITYarts 50 States of Peace initiative under their Young Minds Build Bridges program.
Youth from 124 countries have voiced their hopes for peace through the CITYarts Pieces for Peace Project, and their ideas have started a movement. Their art has been featured in a traveling exhibition that has toured the United States, Spain, Egypt, Germany, Israel, Belgium, and more. It has inspired 7 Peace Walls in New York, Pakistan, the U.K., Germany, Israel, Spain, and Belgium. In 2023 the CITYarts 50 States of Peace Initiative was created, and 18 states have participated so far.
Press:
Youth Artists Make The Case For Peace, New Haven Independent, July 10, 2024