A Kids' Guernica in Nikko, Japan

March 20, 2016   A Kids' Guernica workshop was held in Nikko City, one of the famous resorts in Japan. Nikko is well-known as its cultural heritage and natural beauty in different seasons. The organizer thought a spirit of hospitality is the essential for a peaceful world and the painting represents it with various attractive elements of Nikko. From two-year old infants to more than seventy-year old grandmothers participated in making it. Kids' Guernica is an art project of kids but even adults who still have an innocent mind like a child can participate in it. After the completion, the painting was shown in a multi purpose hall for community on the municipal day of Nikko. A mini concert was held on the opening day and Kids' Guernica paintings from Italy and Poland were exhibited in the hall.

Kids' Guernica at Akabanedai Nishi Elementary School in Tokyo

53 sixth-grade students thought about the meaning of peace and happiness in their peace study class at Akabanedai Nishi Elementary School in Tokyo, Japan. After that, their thought was expressed in a new Kids’Guernica painting. The two towers in the painting are sending a wave of peace with many pink hearts which bring happiness to different places. They painted pictures of happiness inside the pink hearts. On the other hand, the dark part shows the places of discrimination and conflicts. This painting is filled with the students’ wish for peace all over the world.

Kids' Guernica at Tabata Elementary School in Tokyo

November 21, 2015
A new Kids' Guernica peace painting was created by Tabata Elementary School Children in Tokyo, Japan and it was displayed at their school art exhibition.

Kids' Guernica at Nakateshima Elementary School, Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan

January -March, 2015
A wonderful Kids' Guernica peace painting was created by 83 sixth grade students of Nakateshima Elementary School in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan.
100 people have 100 different ideas of peace. There are so many different living things in this world. Each has its own idea. They are all interconnected harmoniously on this earth. We are living in this harmony. Based on this concept, the peace painting was composed by four different parts, “Water as a symbol of natural resources of the earth”, “Plants as a symbol of all the living things on this earth”, “Light as a symbol of dreams and hopes”, and “Darkness as a symbol of sin”. The circle in the center of the painting represents that the world exists in balanced with these four elements.

Special thanks to Misako Yamaguchi, an art teacher who continued this project for many years.

Kids' Guerunica at Otsuma Women's University in Tokyo

November 02-09, 2015

Kids' Guernica exhibition was held at Otsuma Women's University in Tokyo. Some artworks  of artists involved with this project were also displayed at this exhibition. Prof. Tom Anderson, who had organized the first Kids' Guenica exhibition at the Florida State University in 1995, visited this exhibition during his stay in Japan.

A Unique Kids' Guernica in Poland

October 30, 2015
A unique Kids' Guernica was created in Rybnik, Poland. This project was started in 2012. About 70 young artists in age 5 -19 participated in it. They all are students of Art Studio CREATIO – MDK.

The image is made on big paper and in graphic ( linocut) technique. Each participant thought and said what word, “peace”: means for him/her and what inspiration gives him/her for art. Next, they designed their art, next made it, printed it, and connected together on one big piece of paper on the wall. During the final presentation of our Kid’s Guernica in our city, we invited parents, families, teachers, friends and children talked about their work and thoughts.

Coordinator: Aldona Kaczmarczyk-Kołucka

Art Studio CREATIO – MDK

www.mdk.rybnik.pl

Kids' Guernica at Tsubatamachi Children Center in Japan

September 08, 2015

Tsubatamachi Children Center organized Kids' Guernica workshop and its exhibition for the 10th anniversary of the center. First, the member of Art club of Tsubata Minami Junior High School made the basic design of this peace painting and the 5th and 6th grade students of Tsubatamachi Cyuujyo Primary School and visiting children to the center completed the big painting. It was exhibited in the center from August 29 to September 9. As its opening event, a music program was also held in front of the big peace painting.