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Daily Archives: May 30, 2018

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Pinay mother turns grief over losing son to gun violence into an art exhibit & campaign for peace

NewsBy giographixMay 30, 2018

At first glance, these paintings and sculptures might seem like normal works of art, but take a closer look — and you’ll find within them bits and pieces of an object that’s at the center of a national debate. Art of Peace is an exhibit whose works repurpose metal from unwanted guns and turn it…

Killing machines to art: Confiscated guns transformed into “objects of beauty and grace”

NewsBy giographixMay 30, 2018

Two right hands are clasped together vertically, the bottom of one a root, the top of the other a tree trunk. But upon closer inspection, those hands are actually pieces of guns. The “Art of Peace” exhibit made its debut last week at a pop-up gallery on Ninth Street in Old Oakland featuring eight Bay…

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