To wage peace is to be actively engaged in making the world a better place. It’s a demonstrated commitment to overcoming conflict and injustice; striving towards tolerance and acceptance; and fostering safe and healthy environments. This may be achieved in many ways and one of them is through art.

Please join us for the opening reception of this exhibition. Meet the young artists and their teachers, enjoy refreshments and participate in an interactive art installation. If you can't make it to the reception, you can still catch the exhibit which will be on view at the City Hall Art Gallery from May 9 – July 9.

The Waging Peace Student Exhibit is presented by the Council on Culture & Arts at the City Hall Art Gallery. It is an extension of the Waging Peace exhibition at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA), a show collaboratively curated by a team of local educators. The works selected for display at MoFA served as inspiration for the development of classroom lesson plans. Area K-12 art students created their own art inspired by the waging peace theme and those pieces will be displayed in the City Hall Art Gallery.

A truly cooperative effort, there are numerous community partners involved in the Waging Peace project including MoFA, the Council on Culture & Arts, The Plant, the Anderson Brickler Gallery, The Holocaust Education Resource Council, and many area schools.

Don’t miss FSU MoFA’s Waging Peace exhibition on display from May 14 – July 8, 2018. That public reception is scheduled for May 17 from 6-8pm. (530 W. Call St.)

While you’re at it, enjoy The Plant's Waging Peace exhibition that will be on view through May. The opening reception will be May 11 from 7-9pm. (517 W Gaines St.)

And check out the Waging Peace exhibits at the Anderson Brickler Gallery from May 19 - June 9, 2018. The opening reception will be on May 19 from 2-5pm. (1705 S Adam St.)