Litchfield County Times - In Bantam, Art for Peace:
"By last count more than a year ago, the international combat-tracking agency Uppsala Conflict Data Program recognized 36 armed conflicts worldwide. Though the program sets an annual benchmark of 1,000 battle related deaths for a war status designation (by that measure, only five conflicts are wars, two of them being Iraq and Afghanistan,) deadly conflicts are prevalent.
No continent enjoys peace, except for Antarctica and, perhaps, Australia.
Amid the chaos, it is difficult to envision an Earth free of such bloody discord. But with the help of a home-based art class and an involvement in the Global Art Project, Fran Clem of Bantam is cutting through the fray, doing her best to illustrate the path to peace.
Indeed, with a creative mind, an open heart and a basement full of students, both adolescents and teenagers, Ms. Clem has become an indelible soldier in this international, passive-resistance fight against war. It's a role she wants her students to embody."
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
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