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While Lin Evola’s visions are ethereal; her goals are
earthbound. She is renowned for her New York Renaissance
Peace Angel, a thirteen-foot sculpture ensconced in the
World Trade Center recovery area following
September 11, 2001. The New York Renaissance Peace Angel is
a Promised Gift to the National September 11 Memorial and
Museum. She is now in the process of creating the
thirty-foot New York Peace Angel Monument and has been asked
to create Peace Angel sculptures for: Los Angeles,
California, Johannesburg, South Africa; Sarajevo,
Bosnia/Herzegovina; and for Jerusalem, Israel.
The mission of the Art of Peace Charitable Trust is to
achieve lasting peace through innovative and durable
approaches to weapons reduction by advancing active
social-change initiatives in neighborhoods, communities and
nations. Its measures include preventing, combating and
eradicating the proliferation of small firearms, light
artillery and other weapons of war which contribute to, and
sustain, ongoing conflicts and persistent cultures of
violence throughout the world.
Through proper law enforcement and government agencies, the
Art of Peace Charitable Trust collects street weapons,
processed decommissioned nuclear missile casings, land
mines, parts of cluster bombs and other arms, melts them
down and casts epic Peace Angel Monuments from the molten
metal mixture using a unique proprietary process. Through
this process, the Trust facilitates the permanent
destruction of these tools of devastation, permanently
transforming them into magnificent icons of peace.
Each Peace Angel Monument, strategically installed at
various locations desiring conflict resolution, stand as an
inspirational symbol and a universal testament to man’s
enduring quest for peace and the ability to overcome
irreconcilable differences.
Ms. Evola’s efforts on behalf of worldwide weapons reduction
and global peace are endorsed by the United Nations
Departments of Disarmament in New York and in Geneva,
Switzerland. She is lauded for her endeavors by Archbishop
Desmund Tutu, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former
President Clinton, as well as by Commissioner Raymond Kelly
NYPD and Sheriff Lee Baca LASD. Ms. Evola works
with both the Police Athletic League in New York and the
Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles in
respect to programs for gang related youth.
Lin Evola’s paintings and sculptures have been displayed in
solo exhibitions in museums and galleries in Los Angeles,
Chicago, San Francisco, London and Paris. She has a Masters
of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute and serves as
the Artist-in-Residence for both the Praxis Peace Institute
in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and for the Wilgespruit Fellowship
Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her “Spirit of Africa”
PeaceAngel will grace an entire mountaintop in
Johannesburgallocated by the South African Nobel Laureates’
Peace
Memorial and the Academy at Wilgespruit.
A recipient of many prestigious honors and awards, including
a commission from Mr. Harry Belafonte’s distinguished
organization for the Sankofa Urban Peace Award, she was a
nominee for the International Peace Award in 2004, and was
presented with the Council for Unity Peace Maker Award
in2008. The National Arts Club in New York City has
presented her the rare honor of Artist Life Member.
Peace Angels are owned by: President Bill Clinton and
Senator Hillary Clinton; Her Majesty Queen Noor al Hussein
of Jordan; former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the National Arts
Club; Sarah Brady; The Joseph Campbell Foundation; Marion
Rockefeller Weber; Vera Pratt and Anne Cooling. Her works
are also exhibited at The Liberty National Museum
in Philadelphia, PA; the Harvard School of Public
Health,thanks to Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D. Stanford
University’s Hoover Institute has worked with Ms. Evola
dedicating their PhD program to create a marketing manifest
for the Trust.
The AOPCT partners with a diverse range of donors, public
and private organizations and concerned citizens who share
its commitment to improve society. It collaborates with
relevant local, national and international government
agencies, community organizations and academic institutions
and selectively supports conflict resolution, peace-building
and economic revitalization programs (such as
hydroponicvertical farms creating job opportunities for
youth at risk)
to empower people to become innovative agents for peace. |