MasterPEACE: Young Artists Making a Kinder World

Dallas students' exhibit of collage portraits of peacemakers from around the world, is being moved from the Downtown Dallas Library to the Goss Gallery for the June 11 art show and benefit. The portraits were created by Dallas 5th graders from L.L. Hotchkiss, Parish Episcopal, and students in Big Thought's after school program. Dallas photographer, John Katz's photographs capturing their creative process, will also be exhibited. In the particular MasterPEACE lesson that inspired the kids, "Great Peacemakers Like You and Me," the students were asked to create portraits out of everyday objects they found around them; just like these heroes who tackled extremely difficult situations. In the portraits, a bottle top could become an eye. A straw could become a nose; a piece of discarded jewelry, a hat.