Teacher Workshop: Making Peace Together with Visions from Around the World

Making Peace Together: Visions From Around the World
In conjunction with the FSU MoFA exhibition:
Kids’ Guernica International Children’s Peace Mural Project
 Teacher Workshop  TEC credit available

 Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts 
 Friday, January 15: 4:30 - 8:00 pm

 organised by Curator of Education:
Viki D. Thompson Wylder
FSU Museum of Fine Arts
Room 250 Fine Arts Bldg, 530 West Call Street
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1140
Phone: 850-644-1299
E-mail: vwylder@fsu.edu

Above: Leon County Peace Mural (detail).
 Overview: Eat, drink, and be merry to celebrate a better vision of the world. A buffet dinner with wine will be served. Enjoy food and beverage as you learn about the peace mural movement that stretches around the globe. Meet the people who work in their countries to bring a challenging vision of peace to the next generation, the children who will grow up and determine the direction of history.

 Speakers:
Takuya Kaneda, PhD, Professor of Art Education, Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo,
Japan. Dr. Kaneda has served on the Kids’ Guernica International Committee since 2001. He also
serves as Chief Editor for the Japan Holistic Education Association and is President of the All Japan Education Teacher Training Association. His publications in English include The Kids’ Guernica Project for World Peace in the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education (2001-2002) and Peaceful Children: Beyond War, Violence and Bullying (co-author, 2004).

Hatto Fischer, PhD, Coordinator of Poiein Kai Prattein (“to create and to do”), Athens,
Greece. Poiein Kai Prattein is a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting creativity with production through the interweaving of culture, city planning, and governmental policy. Dr. Fischer is also a poet, philosopher and writer. He has been involved with the Kids’ Guernica Peace Murals project since 2005.
His interest in the international character of the movement may come naturally since he was born in Germany, grew up in Canada, and has since lived in London, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Greece.

Speakers also include: Toshifumi Abe (Japan), Ian Brown (Australia), Bernard Conlon
(Northern Ireland), Thomas Economacos (Greece), Deniz Hasirci (Turkey/Greece), Ann Kuo
(Taiwan), Valia Mhaish (Lebanon), Savina Tarsitano (Italy/Martinique), Boris Tissot (France).

 Schedule:
4:30 - 4:45: Sign in, wine and cheese
4:45 - 5:30: Walk and talk tour of Kids Guernica Peace Murals with Takuya Kaneda
and Hatto Fischer.
Explanation of session: Takuya Kaneda (Japan) and Hatto Fischer (Greece) will guide this session, providing comment on the works in the exhibition.

Various people responsible for the production of murals will be introduced in a casual manner as
the group walks through the Museum looking at the pieces: Toshifumi Abe (Japan), Ian Brown
(Australia), Bernard Conlon (Northern Ireland), Thomas Economacos (Athens, Greece), Deniz
Hasirci (Izmir, Turkey and Chios, Greece), Ann Kuo (Taiwan), Savina Tarsitano (Italy and
Martinique), Boris Tissot (Picasso’s Atelier, France), and North Florida mural group (Tallahassee,
FL, USA), and others.

This session will allow for discussion of individual pieces among the leaders of the session, those responsible for the murals, and teachers in attendance. Questions will be encouraged from teachers and directed to all those who have been involved in the Peace Mural movement.

5:30 - 6:00: Buffet break: get your dinner and socialize with the presenters and guests from around the world. This is your chance to talk informally or one on one about peace issues with people who have made this movement part of their life’s work.

6:00 - 6:45: Overview and history of the Peace Mural movement: Takuya Kaneda, Hatto Fischer, and Kids of Guernica.
Explanation of session:
30 minutes: Takuya Kaneda (Japan) will screen his powerpoint on the topic with input from
Toshifumi Abe (Japan) and Ann Kuo (Taiwan).
15 minutes: Hatto Fischer (Greece) will provide an overview of the history of the movement in
Europe.
15 minutes: Kids of Guernica (now in their 20s) will provide a look at participation in the movement from the child’s perspective.
6:45 - 7:30: Presenting “peace issues” in the classroom; projects and activities to
implement with students: panel presentation.
Explanation of session:
Each panel member will have 4 to 5 minutes to talk about projects or activities that can be done in the classroom.
Panel: Toshifumi Abe (Japan), Bernard Conlon (Northern Ireland), Thomas Economacos
(Greece), Hatto Fischer (Greece), Deniz Hasirci (Turkey), Takuya Kaneda (Japan), ,Ann Kuo
(Taiwan), Valia Mhaish (Lebanon), Boris Tissot (France), and others.
7:30 - 8:00: Artwork for peace from Leon County classrooms: a walk and talk by
participant teachers through the student display titled Peace: A Challenge.
Kids Guernica International Children’s Peace Mural Project

January 6 - 31
M-F: 9-4
S&S: 1-4
Florida State University
Museum of Fine Arts
Corner of Call &
Copeland
Left: Leon County Peace Mural (detail).
The Leon County Peace Mural, in its entirety, will be unveiled when the Kids’ Guernica
International Children’s Peace Mural Project opens on January 6 at the FSU Museum of
Fine Arts. The mural measures 12' x 25', the approximate size of Pablo Picasso’s
Guernica. The Leon County mural will join fourteen other murals from across the globe.
The following Leon County schools and teachers participated in this project:
Bond: Qadira Davidson Buck Lake: Fran Kautz
Canopy Oaks: Leslie Anderson
Conley: Marcia Meale
Everhart: Judy Jecko
FSUS: Rhiana Tucker
Gilchrist: Julie McBride
Hartsfield: Wafa Elsaka
Holy Comforter: Kim Daniel
Magnolia: Sharon McQueen
Pineview: Kati Yates
SAS Extended Day: Kate Teluga
Sullivan: Evelyn Pender
Trinity: Maria Augustyniak
Room 250 FAB, 530 West Call St.
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1140

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