CHALK4PEACE honors Mom...

My mom, Jane, would have been 86 today.
She would say, "Go ahead, pick up the chalk;
it's for a good reason. Listen to my son.
Sometimes he knows what he's talking about!"
Happy Birthday, Mom!
This Jerry Downs photo is for her...

CHALK4PEACE Coming again to a sidewalk near you...

CHALK4PEACE
Boulder Public Library
Boulder, Colorado
photo: Benko Photographics

Drawing 4 Peace...Tell us what happened at your event...

Peace prevails when CHALK4PEACE happens...
Valley View Elementary School, Richmond, CA 9/14/07
photo: Dumas/Aaron

CHALK4PEACE celebrates Dr. King's Birthday...

Artists from around the world celebrating peace
This week honors Dr. King with selections from
the CHALK4PEACE Photo Library.
You rock, Dr. King...
Top: The Hostess; Barcroft Elementary School, Arlington, VA
photo: Alissa Karton
Above: Palestinian artists showing their CHALK4PEACE spirit...
SOS Herman Gmeiner School, Bethlehem, West Bank
photo: Sarah Jayne Bleiweis

Pictures worth more than a thousand words...

Yoga in Daily Life, Alexandria, Virginia
CHALK4PEACE is 4 kids of all ages...

CHALK4PEACE Photograph of the Day

In tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
PAINTS Piedmont with Beach Dads present CHALK4PEACE
Beach School, Piedmont , CA 9/16/07
photo: Mick Jones Photography

To Pay Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This posting honors the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
a man who sought to bring peace to the world through non-violence.
As I post this, his speeches pour out of the radio, and they
still send shivers down my spine.

There will be a new photograph of a CHALK4PEACE site
from around the world every day this week.

The first event for CHALK4PEACE as an organized event
was at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library
in Washington, DC in 2005. 2008 will be the Library's fourth
year supporting CHALK4PEACE. The photo is from the Library's
event in 2006. The students are from Woodlawn Elementary School
in Alexandria, VA. It is both an honor and quite humbling.
More than one hundred thousand people have done CHALK4PEACE
since 2006. They've covered fourteen football fields' worth of art.
We will chalk it up for peace again on 19-21 September, 2008
and work to continue to spread the spirit of peace through
artistic expression, as Dr. King would want us to.

"...in the name of Love,
one more in the name of Love..."
-Bono