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"Visions of a new millenium: Global children's artwork" 17.December 1999- 25.February |
From December 17, 1999 to February 28, 2000 the United Nations hosted exhibition featuring more than 300 artworks, poems, and essays by children from all continents of the globe.
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Over 4000 artists, photographers and writers, ages 6 to 18 from 60 countries contributed to the millenium youth art exhibition. The primary organizers of the exhibition were the International Paint Pals' (IPP) network with art teachers and students in 47 cities around the world, (a programme of the Youth Art Connection/ Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta) and the UN Department of Public Information with the UN Information Centres worldwide.
(For more information, email: paintpals@aol.com)
Other participants included Survivors Art Foundation (New York), Kenya Kiboyoko Project (Kenya and New York), International Child Art Foundation (Washington DC), and Friendship Dolls (Australia, Papua New Guinea).
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The paintings, photographs and creative writings in this exhibition are small windows into the year 2000 and beyond. They provide youthful views of the kind of world our future leaders would like to live in. Young people worldwide were invited to express their hopes and expectations, dreams and fears, their thoughts about good things to be strengthened and bad things to be eliminated. They used their imaginations in creating this thought provoking work; please use yours in viewing and interpreting it ! Their experiences of creativeness, togetherness and particontinents took part in local events to produce their contributions. Their experiences of creativeness, togetherness and participation are the heart and soul of this exhibition.
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The United Nations General Assembly will meet in September 2000 to discuss priorities and plans for the new millennium. The voices in this exhibition speak out to the delegates.
Youth Art Connection operates a large gallery and workshop space in central Atlanta which provides young artists with an exclusive place to show on operates a large gallery and workshop space in central Atlanta which provides young artists with an exclusive place to show their work.
IPP conducts painting exhibitions, art work exchanges, inter-country artist visits, educational programs, and art-sale fund raising activities for childrens charities. Over eighteen thousand young people and hundreds of organizers across the United States and from 100 cities in 55 countries on 6 continents have participated in IPP events.
Statement by Mr. Kensaku Hogen, Under- Secretary- General for Public Information at the opening of the Visions of the New Millennium exhibition of Children's Art
Dear Friends, colleagues, students, and children,
"We welcome all of you today to the United Nations for the opening of our last exhibit of the twentieth century and the first ecxhibit of the new millennium. As the exhibit title will tell you, this display presents us with "Visions of the New Millennium" as seen through the eyes of the world's children. The artwork and essays by children from over 50 countries express both hope and optimism, as well as some fears for the future. We at the UN are hopeful that the children's vision of peace and harmony expressed here in this exhibit, will be the prevailing atmosphere of the next century and of the new millennium. We wish to thank the principal organizers from International Paint Pals who worked with our exhibits office in the Department of Public Informationto create this wonderful collection of youth art. We also wish to thank the many other participants, art teachers, NGOs and students, and volunteers who contributed to the show".
IPP provides a creative forum for young people worldwide to speak out on important issues and to share cultures and friendships through the universal language of art.
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