Peace Walls & Murals Around the World
See below for special section on World Walls for Peace.
Click here for website showing mosaic peace monuments.
Click here for "The 50 Most Stunning Wall Murals From Around The World."
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"Peace" & "War," Second Floor, Northwest Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (USA).
Murals by Gari Melchers [1860-1932].
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 November 11, 1926 - "Great Frieze of War & Peace," Liberty Memorial, 100 West 26th Street, Kansas City, Missouri (USA). "Carved into the limestone of the north wall (in shadow of left image). 148 feet/45 meters wide & 18 feet/5.5 meters high. One of largest in the world. Sculpted by Edmond Amateis [1897-1981]. Depicts progress from war to peace." Click here for its five inscriptions. Faces KC's palatial 1914 Union Station, now rarely used for trains (right image).
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|  1920-32 - Arc de Triomphe, Cinquantenaire Park, Brussels (Belgium). "On both sides of the arch are 'galleries of the columns' with mosaics representing and glorifying the 'peace-loving nation of Belgium'. These mosaics were made between 1920 and 1932."
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|  1931 - "Allegory of California. / Alegoria de California," Main staircase between 10th & 11th floors. Exchange's Luncheon Club/City Club, Pacific Stock Exchange Tower, San Francisco, California (USA). Fresco by Diego Rivera [1886-1857].
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| 1932 - "America Tropical," Italian Hall, Olvera Street, Los Angeles, California (USA). Mural by Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros [1896-1974]. "According to the text on a plaque on Main Street, Siqueiros was invited to paint a mural on the second floor exterior wall of the building. The mural (featuring an Indian bound to a double cross, surmounted by an imperialist eagle, and surrounded by pre-Columbian symbols and revolutionary figures) was considered hightly controversial." "The mural was partially whitewashed shortly after its completion, and then fully painted over within its first year on public view, beginning a legacy of censorship that still haunts Los Angeles. In the 1970's, 40 years after it was painted over, the image began to reemerge from the whitewash."
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|  1933 - "Detroit Industry," Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan (USA). A famous series of twenty-seven fresco panels by Diego Rivera [1886-1857]. Gift of Edsel B. Ford. Images show North & South Walls.
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 |  May 22, 1933 - "Man at the Crossroads," Rockefeller Center, New York City, New York (USA). Mural by Diego Rivera [1886-1857]. Had many parts including: society women drinking alcohol, pictures of cells (sexually transmitted diseases), Leon Trotsky, and Vladimir Lenin (depicting communism). Lenin infuriated Rockefeller, and the mural was removed. Rivera repainted it at a smaller scale at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City where it can be found today, renamed "Man, Controller of the Universe."
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 |  June 1940 - Peace Monument, Founex (Switzerland). "Les anciens combattants suisses de la Grande Guerre se félicitent d'être encore en paix en Juin 1940."
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| 1941 - "The Defense of Human Freedoms," War Department Building (now State Department Building), 21st Street at Virginia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC (USA). Mural by Kindred McLeary [1901-1949]. "Depicts the five freedoms flanked at either end of the mural by their defenders, the American military." Also known as "America the Mighty." Image cannot be found on-line. Covered from 1954 to 1977 because its theme was considered inappropriate to the State Department.
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1944 - "The New Democracy," Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City (Mexico). "Depicts a woman who is trying to shatter the bonds of oppression and exploitation. She carries a torch of freedom to symbolize the new order. David Alfaro Siqueiros [1896-1974] includes strong visions of the future, similar to Diego Rivera [1886-1957]. Classical influence is shown in his approach to idealize human body form. Sometimes he exaggerates with expressive emotion. With his death came an end to a great movement in modern art."
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| 1952 - Peace & Freedom Tapestry, East Wall, Security Council Room, United Nations, New York City, New York (USA). Entry #754 in the "Peace Movement Directory" by James Richard Bennett (2001). By Per Krohg [1889-1965] of Norway. 
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| 1953 - "Mankind's Struggle for a Lasting Peace", Third Floor, Conference Building, United Nations, New York City, New York (USA). Mural 64 feet long x 9.5 feet tall by Jose Vela Zanetti [1914-1999], a Spanish exile living in the Dominican Republic, in which a giant, four-armed figure implants the UN emblem. Entry #758 in the "Peace Movement Directory by James Richard Bennett (2001).   
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| 1954 - "Triumph of Peace," United Nations, New York City, New York (USA). Tapestry by Belgian painter Peter Colfs [1906-1983]. Entry #759 in the "Peace Movement Directory" by James Richard Bennett (2001).
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|  1955 - “The Singing Mural,” Ballroom, University Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (USA).
By American muralist Marion Greenwood [1909-1970] who worked in Mexico. Depicts the music, dance, and folklore of Tennessee from the Mississippi on the left to the Appalachians on the right. Minority students complained that the Black cotton picker is a smiling slave. Mural vandalized on May 18, 1970. Has been covered since May 1972. Uncovered briefly March 15-17, 2006, when these photos were taken by the Knoxville News Sentinel.
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| 1957 - "Guerra e Paz / War & Peace," Security Council, UN Headquarters, New York, New York (USA). Two panels by Candido Portinai [1903-1962] measuring 35x47 feet presented by Brazil. Portinari was banned from entering the US to open the panels, accused of being communist. 
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|  January 2, 1958 - Polio Wall of Fame, Founder's Hall, Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, Warm Springs, Georgia (USA). Also called the "Polio Hall of Fame." Assembles busts of 14 men and one woman who were instrumental in polio research and treatment, plus Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his close aide Basil O'Connor. (The first four are from Germany, Sweden, and Austria.) Designed by sculptor Edmond Romulus Amateis [1897-1981] who also sculpted the "Great Frieze of War and Peace" in Kansas City, MO (qv).
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| 1960 - "Raíces de la Paz / The Roots of Peace," Organization of American States (OAS), 17th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC (USA). "In the tunnel connecting the OAS Building with its Administration Building two blocks away is a 162-meter [sic] / 200-foot mural (one of the longest in the world) depicting various themes of peace & development in the Americas. Painted by Uruguayan artist Carlos Paez Vilaró [b.1923] who also painted a mural for the UN building in New York City." 
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|  1967 - "The Wall of Respect," 43rd & Langley, Chicago, Illinois (USA). "The mural that began the community mural movement." "Sylvia Abernathy, Elliot Hunter, Wadsworth Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Carolyn Lawrence, Norman Parish & William Walker were among the artists with the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) who painted a section to commemorate African American heroes: musicians, athletes, and political leaders." Destroyed in 1971.
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| 1968 - "Peace" or "Metafisica," Halsted Urban Progress Center, Halsted Street & Cullerton, Pilsen neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois (USA). Mural by Mario Castillo. "Possibly the first outdoor Chicano mural in the USA." "The first anti Viet Nam war mural. When Castillo painted this, he was not aware of Bill Walker's 'Wall of Respect' which was painted in 1967." No longer exists. Nor does Castillo's 1969 mural "The Wall of Brotherhood."
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| 1970 - "Peace & Salvation: Wall of Understanding," Locust & Orleans, Chicago, Illinois (USA). Mural by African American artist William (Bill) Walker. "At the base of the wall are figures representing the community: the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Stevens, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Malcolm X, and members of various youth groups in Chicago. These figures symbolize the need for unity among all Black people. As these figures march together, they become a symbol of hope." No longer exists.
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| 1971 - "All of Mankind,", Northside Stranger’s Home Church, 617 West Evergreen Avenue, Cabrini Green, Chicago, Illinois (USA). Mural by African American artist William (Bill) Walker. "Features 4 figures -- black, white, Asian & Latino -- with their hands together in a show of unity and racial harmony. Below the church’s cross, the words 'Why were they crucified?' and the names of historical figures like Ghandi, Malcolm X, Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ." Church & mural were threatened with destruction in 2007-2008.
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December 15, 1971 - "La Marcha de la Humanidad / The March of Humanity," Polyforrum Cultural Siqueiros, Mexico City (Mexico). By David Alfaro Siqueiros [1896-1974]. "Covers the entire walls on the building's top-floor elliptical forum and is the world's largest mural. The painting depicts humanity's evolution from the past to the present as well as a vision of the future."
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| 1973 - "For a New World,", Holy Covenant United Methodist Church, 925 West Diversey Parkway, Chicago, Illinois (USA). Mural by John Pitman Weber. "Once called 'the most hopeful mural in the city of Chicago.' Doesn’t shy away from showing the world’s evils. An early CMG work, three sections represent the areas of the worship service: Confession depicts political brutality, killing & repression; The Word shows the promise of a new world where all people -- men & women, young & old, gay & straight, all racial groups -- will live in peace & harmony; Offering urges us to dedicate our lives to justice through our daily work. Restored in 1996."
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| 1973 - "Break the Grip of the Absentee Landlord," 5219 West Mdison Street, Chicago, Illinois (USA). Mural by Mark Rogovin. His only masterpiece (according to John Pitman Weber.) "An example of late Siquerioesque graphic style. Only a blank wall remains." Google translation from Spanish: "Perhaps the most sophisticated use of space by way of David Alfaro Siqueiros [1896-1974] designed by one of the pioneers and leaders of the Chicago street mural movement. Rogovin was an assistant in the Taller Siqueiros in Cuernavaca [Mexico]. Political action, or the political message turned into tangible facts seem thrown into space, rather than using a flat surface on which plausibly represents the activity by Renaissance perspective foreshortening unifocal."
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| 1975 - "Isaiah Wall," Ralph Bunche Park, East 43rd Street & First Avenue, New York City, New York (USA). Quotes Isaiah 2:4: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares." Shadow in image is cast by adjacent "Peace Form One." Entry #718 in the "Peace Movement Directory" by James Richard Bennett (2001).
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| 1975 - "Man's Inhumnity to Man," 47th Street, Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois. Anti-drug mural by William Walker & Mitchell Caton. "On a street that was once a focus of shoppig & nightlife. Restoration opposed by the current alderwoman..supposedly because years earlier it scarred her daughter." Restored Summer 2003.
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| 1976 - "A Time to Unite," Drexel Avenue & 41st Street, North Kenwood-Oakland, Chicago, Illinois (USA), Mural by Mitchell Caton, Calvin Jones & Justine DeVan on an abandoned elevated train abutment. Inscription: "A TIME TO UNITE. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace." (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8).
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| 1976 - "Together Protect the Community (TILT)," Fullerton & Washtenaw Avenue, Chicago, Illinois (USA). Mural by John Pitman Weber. "Depicts a monumental, racially mixed group of people protectively embracing their homes against a background of decorative patterns similar to old-fashioned wallpaper. While smaller figures 'build' their community through work and play, others fend off drugs, vandalism, gangs, absentee landlords, real estate speculators, unemployment, and freeways--all of which threaten the quality of life. These tilted images on the north half are meant to be seen only by the local audience; eastbound traffic on Fullerton sees only the positive, harmonious images." Restored in 2003.
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| 1977 - "Childhood is Without Prejudice," 56th Street & Stony Island, Chicago, Illinois (USA). Mural by William Walker. "Also know as 'Children of Goodwill.' Walker created this mural as a tribute to nearby Harte School. His daughter had attended school there, and Walker wanted to express his appreciation for the school’s promotion of racial harmony. The tripartite mural, Walker’s personal favorite, includes a series of interlocking faces representing the potential unity of all races."
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| 1977 - "Toward a People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement," book by John Pitman Weber, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
"Reprinted in 1998. Remains a classic study of the community-based mural movement that produced hundreds of large-scale wall paintings in the USA and Canada."
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| 1978 - The Great Wall of Los Angeles, Tujunga Flood Control Channel, Los Angeles, California (USA). "One of LA’s cultural landmarks and one of the country’s most respected and largest monuments to inter-racial harmony (2,754 feet wide). Represents the history of ethnic peoples of California from prehistoric times to the 1950’s. Conceived by Judith F. Baca, artistic director and founder of the Social & Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). Begun in 1974 and completed over five summers, employed over 400 youth and their families from diverse social and economic backgrounds working with artists, oral historians, ethnologists, scholars, and hundreds of community members." Click here for "The Art of the Mural" by Judy Baca.
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| 1979 - Elliot Donnelley Center Community Art Garden, Bronzeville, Chicgo, Illinois (USA). "Mitchell Caton & Calvin Jones’s classic mural 'Another Time’s Voice Remembers My Passion’s Humanity' (1979, left in image) was restored by Bernard Williams in 1993. Its jazzy montage of figures and textile patterning with the pairing of a wall-high African mask and the face of a contemporary woman links the African past with the present community. 'The Great Migration' (1995, right in image), led by Marcus Akinlana, is a 2,700-square-foot historical narrative documenting the migration of African Americans from the South to Chicago after World War II."
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 |   1985 - Western Peace Wall, Victoria School, Broadway Avenue & 12th Street, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada). "Symbolizes the need to dismantle barriers to world peace." By Saskatoon sculptor Leslie Potter.
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1985 - "Three Minutes to Midnight," Seminole Avenue, Little Five Points, Atlanta, Georgia (USA). Also called the "Seminole Peace Mural." First US mural painted by David Fichter of Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Painted as part of a cultural festival for nuclear disarmament called 'Three Minutes to Midnight' which organized several events around the city in October 1984." First image is close up of Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-1968]. Second image shows Leó Szilárd [1898-1964] & 70 other atomic scientists petitioning for a demonstration of the atomic bomb before using it on human beings, US officials playing deaf and dumb, and three weeping "Hiroshima maidens". Click here for article & slide show about Fitcher's visit to the endangered mural on December 5, 2008.
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|  1987 - Portrait of Bert Röling, "De Boom van Kennis / The Tree of Knowledge" (muurschildering / mural), Auditorium, Academy Building, University of Groningen, College Square, Groningen (Netherlands). Bert Röling [1906-1985] was a Dutch jurist who helped found the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in 1964. Huge mural painted by his son Mathijs Röling & by Wout Muller. Lower right corner includes Röling in white hair (similar to his official portrait in the university's senate room) & what appear to be three students.
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|  1988 - Peace Plaza, Between City Hall & City Library, Salem, Oregon (USA). Click here for annual tree photos.
Entry #848 in the "Peace Movement Directory" by James Richard Bennett (2001).
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 | Date? - Mural on Freedom Walk, Auburn Avenue, Sweet Auburn Historic District, Atlanta, Georgia (USA). When created & by whom? NB: Freedom Walk is an "urban interpretive trail to downtown area along Auburn Avenue" created by National Park Service (NPS), but when? Not described on any website. "The name Sweet Auburn was coined by John Wesley Dobbs [1882-1961], referring to the 'richest Negro street in the world.'" Click here for photo essay by Galen R. Frysinger.
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| July 1988 - Freedom Quilt Mural, Southeast Regional Office, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 92 Piedmont Avenue, NE, Atlanta, Georgia (USA). Mural by David Fichter. Features Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and 14 other famous peacemakers. Created as part of Rainbow Coalition events during the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Click here for further information. Entry #240 in the "Peace Movement Directory" by James Richard Bennett (2001). 
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|   1989 - Quaker Tapestry, Friends Meeting House, Kendal, Cumbria, England (UK). A chronicle of Quaker life over 350 years. 77 hand-crafted embroidery panels, beautifully illustrated by 4,000 men, women and children from 15 countries.
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| Date? - Rotary Mural, Culiacan, Sinaloa (Mexico). Depicts the fight against polio. Includes dove of peace & handshake of friendship. See Knoxville, Tennessee (USA), for statue of the Rotarian who chaired the interntional anti-polio committee. 
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| 1990 - Monumento a la Paz Mundial / Monument for World Peace, Parque de el Lauredal, Gijon (Spain).
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 | November 9, 1990 - "Breakthrough," Latshaw Plaza, adjacent to Winston Churchill Memorial, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri (USA). By British-born artist (and Churchill granddaughter) Edwina Sandys. "Where Churchill first coined the historic phrase the 'Iron Curtain.' It has been called the most significant monument to be constructed on American soil since the Vietnam War Memorial. Created from eight massive sections of the Berlin Wall. Features male & female forms cut out from the wall’s concrete surface, symbolizing a passage through the wall to freedom."
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| 1991 - Mural Dedicated to Peace, Hyperion Avenue & Sunset, East Los Angeles, California (USA). Painted by local youth for the Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance.
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| 1992 - The World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear. "Organized by Judy Baca." "Santa Barbara Installation. 10x30ft Paintings on Canvas. Exhibition sites include the Smithsonian (Washington, DC), Joensuu (Finland) & Gorky Park (Moscow, Russia). Explores the material & spiritual transformation of a society toward peace.
As the World Wall travels, a new panel is added by an artist from each country. The most recent include a panel completed by an Israeli-Palestinian team at California State University Monterey Bay in April 1998 and a panel by the Mexican team in 2002."
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|  After 1992 - "Firebird--Past and Present," First Floor Lounge, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Kyoto (Japan). "Two figures from the anime series Hi no Tori / Firebird (or Phoenix) by Osamu Tezuka [1928-1989], Japan's most famous cartoonist. The Firebird series was Tezuka's means of expressing the horror of war and his strong desire for peace. Thus, we feel his Phoenix is a fitting symbol for the Museum's strong yearning to learn from the terrible lessons of war."
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"Doves," New York City, New York (USA). Mural by Puerto Rican grafitti artist Antonio Garcia (better known as Chico). Depicts the pope and ___?
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|  1993 - Mural of Peace, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA). By Puerto Rican artist Reynaldo Hernandez who "works as a muralist throughout the state, creating murals which reflect the culture or community that requests his work."
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| 1993 - Our History Moves From Slavery Toward Freedom," Valley Cities Jewish Community Center, Sherman Oaks, California (USA). Mural by John Pitman Weber (from Chicago, Illinois). Depicted the the Jewish exodus and "was considered to be one of the finest murals in the Los Angeles area... In summer 2008, the building was sold, and the new owner could not be persuaded to keep the mural."
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|  1994 -
Peace Mural, Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado (USA). "Depicts all of the children of the world taking the weapons from each country on earth and giving them to a central figure...who has this iron fist and anvil in his hand that is totally out of proportion to the child's body, beating the swords into plowshares."
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|  October 2, 1994 - Pacifist Memorial, Peace Abbey, Sherborn, Massachsetts (USA). Six radiating brick walls surrounding a statue of Mahatma Gandhi by Ludo Goudjabidze. The walls contain the names of and quotations from famous pacifists. Dedicated on 125th anniversary of Gandhi's birth. Entry #471 in the "Peace Movement Directory" by James Richard Bennett (2001).
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|  1995 - "Heroes of Freedom, Justice and Peace," 175 Concord Street, St. Paul, Minnesota (USA). Mural by Craig Davis. Depicts eight peacemakers. Maintained by El Burrito Mercado.
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| Date? - Womens Peace Mural, Pentonville Road, N1, London (England). "The design shows aspects of women, peace and Greenham Common in a format reminiscent of medieval paintings. The backward looking Sankofa Bird reminds people not to be afraid to rectify past mistakes."
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Date? - "Wind of Peace" mural, Greenwich, London (England). Artist, location, and purpose unknown.
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|  1997 -
Peace Wall & Moon Gate, Lion & Lamb Peace Arts Center, Bluffton University, Riley Court (Lower Level), Spring Street, Bluffton, Ohio (USA). By Jon Barlow Hudson. "Replicates the Berlin Wall, a prison wall, a stockade wall & a memorial wall as an interactive art experience representing how we close people out, hold them in or immortalize them with walls of various kinds." Entry #793 in the "Peace Movement Directory" by James Richard Bennett (2001).
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|  June 1998 - Peace Wall, 29th & Wharton Streets (southwest corner), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). Mural by Jane Golden & Peter Pagast. Inscribed "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God" from Matthew 5:9. Note children in foreground of the image.
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| 1999 - "Language of Hope," Running Wolf Fitness Center, Migizi Communications, Lake Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA). Mural created by Marilyn Lindstrom with help from 20 young artists and guest artists. Includes 12 elements essential to human life that the young people came up with -- hope, justice, trust, family, love, freedom, purpose, respect, community, peace, basic human needs, collective work, and responsibility.
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|  March 30, 2000 - Le Mur pour la Paix / Wall for Peace, Champs de Mars, Paris (France). Between the Ecole militaire and the Eiffel Tower. By French artist Clara Halter who has other peace monuments in St. Petersburg (Russia) and Hiroshima (Japan).
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| August 25, 2000 - Wings of Peace & Freedom Park, Dixon, Illinois (USA). ''Gifted by Nick Tanev, a native of Bulgaria who immigrated to the USA and prospered. Symbolizes the hope the East and the West would come together and live in peace and freedom." Includes replica of Berlin Wall (largest words: PEACE & FREIHEIT). On Ronald Reagan Trail. Dixon is the childhood home of President Ronald Reagan. 
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| November 11, 2001 - Wall of Nations Memorial, Ground Zero, New York City, New York (USA). Commemorates 83 countries (in blue on map) whose citizens were lost in the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC). Left image shows President George W. Bush & UN Secretary General Kofi Annan at the wall.
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June 2002 - Piedmont Peace Wall,
Austin and Newbury Streets, Worcester, Massachusetts (USA). "12 ft. x 5 ft. Created [by Hillary Sloate Mosaics of Washington, DC] with Piedmont neighborhood residents. Thank you Worcester Common Ground, Pleasant St. Network Center, RC Rheault Construction, & Tom Lewis. Worcester T & G. Restored summer 2008."
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| January 2003 "Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell," book by Jane Golden, Robin Rice & Monica Yant Kinney, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, pp. 160. With photographs by David Graham & Jack Ramsdale. Click here for an excerpt from chapter 1. Sequel also available.
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 |  November 2003 - Peace Mural, Art, War & Peace Museum, 1620 Washington Avenue, Miami, Florida (USA). By Vietnamese artist Houng. "In its entirety, over 800 feet in length & 8 feet tall, comprised of nearly 2000 paintings that capture highly evocative images and concepts of war and related themes, including the effects of war on women and children, veterans, refugees, torture, and displacement." Gallery moved from Jensen Beach to Miami in November 2007.
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| January 9, 2004 -
Human Rights Mural, Coral Springs Museum of Art (Csmart), Coral Springs, Florida (USA).
By artist Yuri Gevorgian Yuroz.
"Commissioned by the United Nations. Joined an already running show on the artist called 'The Narrative Culture of Cubism.'" What's its permanent location?
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|  March 28, 2004 - Ulm (Germany). Ulmer PACE-Zaun für den Frieden / Ulm PACE Fence for Peace, Bauzaun/Münsterplatz-Neue Strasse / Cathedral Square-New Road, Ulm (Germany). "A permanent location at the Meeting House of Ulm in the Open Court "firmly united with nature." Thanks to the team of the Meeting House for the loving care and care there!" Related to the Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges / International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).
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 |  About 2004 - Peace Wall, Castle Rock, Bisbee, Arizona (USA). "Castle Rock is an imposing hunk of rock on the side of Tombstone Canyon in Bisbee, Arizona. British-born artist Rose Johnson [1961-2009] was commissioned by the city of Bisbee to paint a mural dedicated to world peace on a concrete wall that abuts Castle Rock."
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|  July 30, 2004 - Peace Mural, Bogside, Londonderry (Northern Ireland). In 2007, brothers Tom and William Kelly and their friend Kevin Hasson from Derry, collectively known as the 'Bogside Artists', recreated their famous 'Peace' mural on the Mall in Washington, DC (USA). The original depicts a dove of peace. Click here for distant view.
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|  April 2005 - "Building Communities of Peace for All," Chiang Mei (Thailand). By Artists Ugatiahi Collective.
|  | 2005 - "A Season for Change," public court, near West 65th Street & Detroit Avenue, Cleveland Ohio (USA). Commissioned by Cleveland Public Theater.
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 | 2005 - "Peace Not War" Mural, Highways Art Center, Olympic & 18th Street, Santa Monica, California (USA).
|  | 2005 - "Builders of Peace, Heart, Community," west wall of the Good Earth Grocery, Fairfax, Marin County, California (USA). Mural sponsored by Marin Center for Peace & Justice.
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| 2005 - "Faith in Women," Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA). Mural by Lady Pink of New York City. "Depicts anti-war symbolism and the horrors of war experienced by the innocent. Painted for the 2005 b-girl be Summit."
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| U R A L | November 12, 2005 - "VREDE IS COOL," reception hall, IKV/Pax Christi, Hoog Catharijne Shopping Centre, Godebaldkwartier 74, Utrecht (Netherlands). Has sayings about peace, e.g. "Vrede is vliegen / Peace is flying," "Vrede is verbondenheid / Peace is connectedness." Painted by 7 young refugees from Utrecht Asylum Seekers Centre tutored by artist Senad Alic from Serbia-Montenegro & theatre designer Majid Hassan from Sudan, working for the National Foundation for the Promotion of Happiness in Amsterdam. Information & image courtesy of Gerard Lössbroek. IKV (Interchurch Peace Council) established in 1966 by 9 churches.
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|  May 2006 - "Plant Peace" Mural, Leahi Millennium Peace Garden, Diamond Head, Honolulu, Hawaii (USA). "Garden was created in 2000 by teens from around the globe to promote peace and cultural understanding and now stands as a symbol of solidarity and hope. In 2006 seniors from the Visual Arts Academy (VAA) of Oakland, California, partnered with Hawaiian youth to provide general garden maintenance and paint the mural, positive imagery representing peace and capturing the essence of ALOHA."
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| October 2006 - "All Join Hands: The Visions of Peace," Benjamin Franklin High School, Broad & Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). By muralist Donald Gensler.
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| Mother's Day 2007 - "Peace Fence," Ashland, Oregon (USA). Jean Bakewell's idea to transform an unsightly chain link fence that runs along railroad tracks. The panels express each contributor's vision about the human spirit and hopes for peace. There are intricate quilts and beautifully sewn works, oil paintings on canvas, collages, batik and tie-died works, hand painted signs and statements... In the summer of 2008, the entire Peace Fence was destroyed by vandals. But the Peace Fence is neither gone nor forgotten." See the Peace Wall.
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| Summer 2007 - "Peaces of Chico," Camellia Substation, downtown Chico, California (USA). "One of the most prominently featured murals in Chico. Painted by artist Greg Payne in partnership with local high school students."
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| September 30, 2007 - Mount Shasta Community Peace Mural, Visitor's Bureau Park, Mount Shasta, California (USA). 8 feet by 20 feet mural depicts what various community members see as their "Vision of Peace." Sponsored by the Siskiyou Arts Council (SAC).
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| 2008 - "Independence Starts Here," Hahnemann University Hospital, Broad & Race Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). By muralist Donald Gensler. "About 12,000 square feet. Seven stories tall.
Within the design people with disabilities stand as monuments symbolizing different
actors within a diverse and extraordinary community. These people are all from
Philadelphia and of different races, genders, and backgrounds."
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| 2009 - "Peace Wall," Ashand Public Library, Ashland Oregon (USA).
Successor to the vandalized Peace Fence (qv). "Artist Kay Cutter is transferring photographic images of every Peace Fence panel (over 200 of them) onto ceramic tiles."
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| October 21, 2009 - "Stop the Violence. Another Way is Possible," Houston Street & Avenue B, Lower East Side (LES), New York City, New York (USA). "The legendary LES artist retired to Florida earlier this year. But Chico [Antonio Garcia] is back, thanks to the Lower East Side Girls Club and the anti-violence organization Power of Peace (POP)."
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| December 10, 2009 - Obama Nobel Peace Mural, Miami Art Palace, 7900 SW 77 Avenue, Miami, Florida (USA). Measures 200 feet long by 8 feet tall. Made of 700 original paintings devoted to one subject, USA Transformation.
Unveiled the same day that President Obama travels to Oslo (Norway) to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. Presented by the Peace Mural Foundation. The artist Huong says, "I was in Washington, DC, on Inauguration Day, with 1.8 million others...
These panels reflect what I saw and felt on that day and what I have been seeing and hearing in the months since... As the Nobel Committee noted, in Obama’s America, 'Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts.' So stop for a moment. See what dialogue looks like, and hear the many voices. YES, WE CAN hear each other with respect. It’s the path to peace." 
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 | Future? - "Building Peace One Piece at a Time", Studio of David Fichter, 20 Worcester Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). Project by students of muralist David Fichter. Intended for permanent installation?
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