Art of Peace Charitable Trust
- Art of Peace Charitable Trust
The Trust unites communities, art and media on a global scale to promote active peacemaking by ceremoniously gathering and then melting weapons such as hand guns, cluster bombs, land mines, and particularly decommissioned missile casings. A unique and proprietary process is then applied to cast the molten metals into epic monuments called Peace Angels. Thirteen sculptures will stand thirty feet tall and are custom designed for each location reflecting the areas cultures and people that are indigenous to those lands. The sites for placement are chosen for historic reasons that will make a difference in transitional areas of conflict and must be culturally sensitive and appropriate to the present time and place. [cite web |url= http://www.theartofpeacecharitabletrust.org|title=The Art of Peace Charitable Trust] [cite web |url= http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aZLf7weoKjAE&refer=muse|title=Bombs Into Angels: Sculptor Melts Weapons to Make Art, Peace
accessdate=2008-09-30 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date=2008-09-30 |work=|publisher=Bloomberg.com]
The United Nations Department of Disarmament in New York and Geneva, Switzerland endorse Lin Evola-Smidt and AOPCT’s efforts. [cite web |url= http://disarmament.un.org/docs/HR2008/HR_Peace_Angels_11-09-2008.pdf|title=The Art of Peace Charitable Trust Inaugural Reception and Dinner Honoring|publisher=United Nations] They are also lauded by Archbishop Desmund Tutu, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former President Bill Clinton, as well as Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City and Sheriff Lee Baca LASD. Besides the New York Peace Angel Monument, Lin Evola-Smidt has been asked to create Peace Monuments for Los Angeles, California; Johannesburg, South Africa; Sarajevo, Bosnia/Herzegovina; and for Jerusalem, Israel.
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