Ceramic art for peace: Bellevue Arts Museum: Offering Reconciliation.
The exhibition features 135 ceramic bowls by top Israeli and Palestinian painters, sculptors and photographers. Each artist received the same plain ceramic form, the “Bowl of Reconciliation,” to work from. This large fragile clay bowl designed by Orna Tamir-Schestowits, symbolizes the fragility of the relationships of the two cultures. In its conception, the bowl represents the connection between art and life, bringing to mind the act of serving an offering or preparing a feast to gather people together. Once Offering Reconciliation reaches its final destination, the bowls will be sold and all revenues will be used to finance the ongoing educational activities in Israeli and Palestinian schools with the goal of educating the youngest generations to bring peace to the region.
The Dove can't help but say - it will take the next generation demanding that our governments support peace. The people will have to lead on this, because our leaders are still delusional, and the delusions of our leaders mean the spilled blood of our children.
This project is lovely, however, and I thank Eric Alterman for alerting us to it. Generals and diplomats and presidents fail us, but artists keep making beauty that reaches toward what really matters.
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