Palo Alto Advanced Photography students respond to professional artworks from “Missing Peace” - www.tmpp.org - sponsored by the Dalai Lama Foundation. They participated in an international student peace project by mounting two community exhibitions of “Missing Peace in a Box” with galleries of their own artworks @ the Krause Center of Innovation (KCI) at Foothill College in July 2010 and Palo Alto High School (Paly) in September 2010. This webpage records the chronology of the two exhibitions, starting with ”Peace Portraits” and the posters @ KCI, followed by interdisciplinary class activities to intersect with the Advanced Photography peace exhibition at Paly.
Palo Alto High School Advanced Photography students mounted an exhibition of the international venue “Missing Peace in a Box” www.tmpbox.org at the Krause Center of Innovation in June 2010. Guest speakers at the opening reception included Stanford Fellow and former head of the Tibetan Government in Exile, Tenzin Tethong, and Amy Hibbs of the Dalai Lama Foundation. They shared curriculum resources and the history of the exhibition that is traveling around the world to inspire peace.
Palo Alto High School students curate an exhibition of the “Missing Peace in a Box” at the Krause Center of Innovation at Foothill College in Los Altos. The extraordinary set of 15 posters selected from the world exhibition “Missing Peace” was compiled by Darlene Markovich and the Dalai Lama Foundation for community exhibitions and distributed gratis to schools around the world by Amy Hibbs. A chart of world school locations is posted at www.tmpbox.org/journey.html
Palo Alto High School Photography students collaborated with the Dalai Lama Foundation to mount an exhibition of the “Missing Peace in a Box.” The Krause Center of Innovation graciously hosted the exhibition with an opening reception in July 2010. Speakers Tenzin Tethong and Amy Hibbs explained the international event that includes work from 88 artists around the world. The foundation provided high school and middle school curriculum resources for teachers attending the KCI Merit Teacher workshop.
Using posters from the “Missing Peace in a Box,” 7 teachers @ Palo Alto High School collaborated to create interdisciplinary connections on the topic of peace. Students in the Advanced Photography class mounted an exhibition with the remaining 8 posters and created artworks of their own to engage viewers to think about aspects of peace in our lives and in the world. Tenzin Tethong, Darlene Markovich, and Amy Hibbs from the Dalai Lama Foundation spoke at the opening reception of “Missing Peace in a Box” @ Paly on September 22, 2010. The exhibition is designed as a treasure hunt for viewers to find peace posters and activities in buildings and classrooms around the campus.
Palo Alto Art teacher Margo Wixsom coordinated the distribution of posters from the “Missing Peace in a Box” donated by the Dalai Lama Foundation. Students in Advanced Photography, along with the school principal, responded to the identity theme in Binh Dahn’s chloryphyll prints. They read about the artist’s experience and perspective then created visual responses representing their own identity.
Palo Alto English teachers Denise Shaw and Karin Kolb selected posters from the international exhibition “Missing Peace in a Box” to create interdisciplinary curriculum connections for their students. Their projects employed techniques to read and analyze visual images, then compose literary and graphic responses to themes of peace.
Science teacher Kelli Hagen selected a poster from The Missing Peace in a Box project to collaborate with teachers at Palo Alto High School for an interdisciplinary exploration of the international exhibition “The Missing Peace” sponsored by the Dalai Lama Foundation. Chemistry students created artworks to explore the relationship between individual and collective values.
Living Skills teacher Letitia Burton selected a poster from The Missing Peace in a Box project to collaborate with teachers at Palo Alto High School for an interdisciplinary exploration of the international exhibition “The Missing Peace” sponsored by the Dalai Lama Foundation. Her students designed “ethics wordles” and created prayer flags by stringing them together.
Social Studies teacher Eric Bloom selected a poster from The Missing Peace in a Box project to collaborate with teachers at Palo Alto High School for an interdisciplinary exploration of the international exhibition “The Missing Peace” sponsored by the Dalai Lama Foundation. Sociology students explored issues of ethnocentrism vs. cultural relativism.
