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Blue Sky Project 2010 - World Peace : Jane Wang

Wed Jun 30, 2010

I just found out about this call for online works via a wonderful artist Jennifer Kosharek:

The deadline to apply I believe is July 7th, 2010 (you don't have to send anything through the post, just via the internet).

Here is the basic premise in the words of the curator/organizer Michio Horikawa:

"Please participate in an art event through the Internet!
Our Theme Is World Peace, Our Motif is the Blue Sky That Envelopes Earth
The 5th Blue Sky Project: An International Exhibition--Love, Blue Sky, and Peace

On September 11, 2001, the New York-based art historian Reiko Tomii photographed the tragedy of World Trade Center from her home, and uploaded three photographs for her Japanese friends. After a few years, I looked at her photographs and other documentary photographs, I realized one thing: there was a beautiful blue sky over New York. There was also a beautiful blue sky over Hiroshima on August 6, and over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, when atomic bombs were dropped on these Japanese cities. The blue sky was the backdrop of historic human follies, again and again.

I decided to reverse the situation--making the blue sky for a. backdrop of world peace, and conceived Blue Sky Project: An International Exhibition.

This year, we are organizing the 5th exhibition.

Above the clouds, there is the blue sky that envelopes the Earth. We will never make the beautiful blue sky a backdrop of war, nuclear bombing, terrorism, massacre, and other destructive acts. Never again.
The blue sky is our shared motif. We want you to freely express your hope for happiness of all the people in the world. We want to tell this message to many people in the world."
Please go to the following link for more detailed information:
http://blueskyproject.blog119.fc2.com/

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Here's the link for the Blue Sky photo album for 2010

http://picasaweb.google.com/blueskyproject06/BlueSkyProject2010#