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Bells from Bullets–Stephanie Mercedes

Artist Stephanie Mercedes from Washington, D.C. is an artist of transformation, turning bullets into bells, weapons into music (click here for her personal website). She sees bells as a spiritual sound medium that purify space. Also, in a time when there is so much gun violence, bells are instruments of mourning, ways to express our… Read more »

Ukrainian Madonna and Rusudan Gotsiridze

A month into the Russian invasion of Ukraine a powerful story and photo emerged of a 27-year old Ukrainian mother who shielded her 6-week old baby as the Russians shelled Kyiv. The mother named Olga, received 24 wounds from flying glass while her baby was kept safe. The mother is recovering in a hospital and… Read more »

The Face of War

Ukrainian artist Dariya Marchenko made this portrait of Vladimir Putin out of over 5,000 bullet casings.

Plastic Jesus’ Wall Around Trump Star

Plastic Jesus is the name of a Los Angeles-based street artist. Amid the U.S Presidential campaign of 2016 where Donald Trump pledged to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico to halt illegal immigration, Plastic Jesus built his own version of a wall that surrounded Donald Trump’s star on Hollywood’s famous Walk of Fame…. Read more »

JR and Child Looking Over Border Wall

French street artist JR has been challenging the walls between people for a long time. He recently erected a massive image of a Latin American child looking over the U.S. border wall with Mexico. At a time when the U.S. policies toward immigration have include separating children from families and housing them in over-crowded detention… Read more »