Walls Of hope
An international art and human rights project Of education, conflict resolution, crime prevention, diplomacy building, community development and preservation of historic memory.
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About us
Started in 2005, Walls of Hope facilitates, implements, and teaches art to children, youth, adults, and the elderly.
The Perquin Model is a blueprint that has become a replicable art model implanted successfully in many regions in El Salvador, as well as in Guatemala, México, Argentina, Canadá, Switzerland, Germany, Northern Ireland, and the United States.
Activities
Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, 2009
Perquin, El Salvador, 2011
Walls of hope welcomes everyone
The Activities That Expand From Walls Of Hope Focus
Upon Designing, Creating, And Completing Community-
Based And Collaborative Art Projects.
These Use The
Strategies Of Various Arts To Rebuild A Torn Apart
Region Where The Legacy Of Wars And Political Violence
Is Followed By Social, Institutional, And Economic
Collapse.
The focus is the creation of:
- Collaborative Murals
- Public Art Projects
- Urban interventions such as collaborative environmental art projects that include garbage separation and collection, water safety, urban planning towards identifying safe spaces of congregation for children and youth, etc.
- Weekly classes and workshops of painting, drawing, wood sculpture, furniture making mask making, textile art and printmaking
- Weekly workshops focusing on recycled materials and the respect and preservation of the environment
Community members decide what, where, and how to do their project.
They are given opportunity to share their histories and traumas as they design and develop the project.
International artists are invited to share with the community their
skills and artistry producing week -long workshops designed to
teach and disseminate techniques, skills, and innovative
aesthetic propositions.
Community members are also trained to
facilitate art classes. Since 201 5 there have been weekly courses
addressing the urgent need to recuperation and respect the
environment, using exclusively recycled materials. The four
artists/ teachers of Walls of Hope facilitate, implement, and
teach children, youth, adults, and the elderly bridging art beyond
El Salvador
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Awards
Our recognitions
The Goldin Foundation for Excellence in Education AWARD
2022
HARVARD NEGOTIATION AND MEDIATION CLINICAL PROGRAM ART REWARD
2019-2020
LATINX ART IN SF