Trainers’ Workshop | October 14, 2005

Jaipur, India

PEACE TILES INDIA

Introductions• Peace Tiles Instructors

– Kasia Ozga, Artist– Suzanne Pender, Artist

• Sponsoring Organizations– Gram Bharati Samiti

• Bhawani Shanker Kusum, Director

– Local NGO’s– Local Schools

• Student Introductions

2005 Rajasthan Peace Tile Workshops

• Youth Participants– Jaipur: Children Ages _______, school sponsor.

– Jhunjhunu: “ “

– Churu

– Karauli

– Jodhpur

– Newai

World AIDS Day Mural in Jaipur

• December 1: World AIDS Day

• Purpose of the Mural

• Location of the Mural

Completed Peace Tiles

Completed Peace Tiles

History of Peace Tiles

“Children and youth inspiring each other through art.”

• Peace Tiles is a new global project focusing on the transformative power of art.

• The project engages untrained artists, children, and every day people in in the art making process while learning about important global issues, such as HIV/AIDS.

Peace Tile: Objectives

• Mission: to raise awareness about the vulnerability of children and youth to HIV/AIDS, and to provide them with a vibrant, dynamic means for self-advocacy and self-expression

• Vision: By emphasizing the human dimension to the world HIV/AIDS crisis, we will encourage individuals and communities to increase resources towards addressing and overcoming the pandemic, resulting in decreased rates of transmission and better care for those already afflicted.

Peace Tiles: Product and Process

Peace Tiles: Product and Process

• Product: mixed media collages on 20 cm x 20 cm tiles– Each tile is the “artist’s” visual expression regarding his or

her experience with an issue such as HIV/AIDS– The tiles can address both individual experiences with the

disease in the child’s community, encourage awareness and prevention, and describe the child’s hopes for a brighter future.

– Tiles can be produced in a workshop setting or through private contemplation.

– When placed together, Peace Tiles create vibrant murals that are installed around the world, creating intimate bonds and generating thoughtful dialogues between distant people and places.

Peace Tiles: Product and Process

Process: individuals work together to produce tiles and murals around a specific theme, such as HIV/AIDS.

– Educational

• Participants learn about an issue, both from each other and from workshop leaders, and from the process of creative exploration and inspiration.

– Therapeutic• Creating tiles gives simple expression to one's emotions in a

safe and constructive environment. • Exploring an issue like HIV/AIDS can raise emotions of loss,

fear, and anger. Expressing these feelings artistically transforms them into something to be proud of, enabling the journey of healing.

– Communicative• By expressing their ideas in a visual way, participants generate

works of art that emphasize the personal dimension to global crisis, decreasing social stigmas surrounding the disease, and encouraging others to share their experiences.

• Participants are themselves empowered by sharing their vision with a larger audience.

Peace Tiles Workshop (Uganda)

Overview: How to Make a Peace Tile

• Prepare/Wash Your Work Surface

• Sketch out your ideas either on a piece of paper of using pencils, on the tiles itself.

• Create a Background • Add the Foreground,

collaging in personal items and artifacts

• Share your tile with those around you, comparing, contrasting, making changes

How to Make a Peace Tile: Step 1

Prepare Your Work Surface– Wood panel: 8 x 8 inches/20 x 20cm– Wipe down the wood’s surface with a weak

mixture of soap and water to remove excess dust.

– Allow tile to dry in the sun or air about 10 minutes.

How to Make a Peace Tile: Step 2

Create a Background– Use any combination of paint, colored markers, pastels,

fabric, paper (newspaper cut-outs, photographs wrapping paper, etc.), or any other available media.

– Be sure to use enough glue to firmly attach each element to the tile

– Allow to dry for one hour if glued paper or paint in the background.

Peace Tile Artwork

How to Make a Peace Tile: Step 3

Add the Foreground– Using liquid glue and a paint brush, carefully

wet and mount foreground objects like:• a photograph

• a handwritten note or poem

• a piece of colored string or cloth

• a postage stamp from your country

• other artifacts

Allow to dry up to one hour

Peace Tile Examples

Make a Peace Tile: …More Ideas

• Add a splat or stroke of a color or two.• Try painting some sand or crushed up egg shells

and sprinkling it on top of clear drying glue• Torn paper has an interesting, ragged edge

– DON’T overdo it– STOP when you have expressed what you want

to say– STOP when you think the tile has the right

combination of color, texture and content

Curating a Peace Tile Mural

Curating a Peace Tile Mural

Curating a Peace Tile Mural

•Lay out all of the tiles •Positively critique tiles•Discuss relationships between them based on theme, color, texture, etc.•Move the tiles around •Use consensus to decide which tile relationships the group wants to emphasize•Put the final mural together and document it!•Send some tiles to partner locations

Sharing Tiles

• Gulu to Darfur tiles created by the Charity for Peace Foundation in July 2005 were shared with children in Darfur.

Tiles shared with other Peace Tile Partners are combined to create vibrant murals around the world, generating discussions between people of different cultural backgrounds over important global issues.

Documentation

• Take photos of the youth with their tiles, photos of the final mural, and photos of the workshop.

• If possible, allow children to take a photo of themselves with their tiles• Instructors will give organizers and host communities access to pictures

from the workshops posted on the internet following completion of the Peace Tiles project in India.

Workshop Information

• Preparation at each location

• Host and Participant Supplies

• Timing and Structure• Deliverables

Workshop Information

Preparation– Who should attend– Time commitment– What trainers and Participants should expect

creatively, emotionally, etc.

Workshop Information

• Host and Participant Supplies – Materials Provided include tiles, paint, brushes,

markers, colored pencils, glue

– Examples of personal artifacts to bring include swatches of fabric, photographs, magazine cutouts, poems, string, etc.

• Meals– Students will receive a snack during the workshops and

trainers will receive a meal during the course of the day

Workshop Information

Timing and Structure: schedule overview– Welcome and Introduction, Ice breaker– Introduce Materials and Safety– Activity: planning your tile, creating the Background– Break for snack/meal– Activity: Composing the Foreground– Discuss the Finished Tiles– Curate a Mural– Hand out certificates and debrief the experience

From Tiles to Murals

Partner Workshops and Organizations

• Nyumbani Home, Kenya• TREE Foundation, Bangladesh• The women/youth of Actwid Kongadzem, Cameroon• Outside the Dream, Uganda• SIDAREC, Kenya• The Women's Collective, Washington• United Network of Young Peacebuilders, Netherlands• Mankind AIDS Art Awareness, Berlin, Germany• SIAM-CARE, Bangkok, Thailand• Amoration/IHCenter, Los Angeles, California, USA• FLEX Vermont, USA• Hope Kenya (Little Lambs Project)

Mural Homes and Exhibits

• Jaipur, India• Gulu, Uganda• Dakar, Senegal• Nairobi, Kenya • Bangkok, Thailand• Washington, DC• Michigan, USA

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