Since 1994 there have been 170,000 Participants On Seven Continents!

	Algeria Antilles Argentina Australia Austria Bangledesh Belarus Belgium Belize Bosnia Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burundi CambodiaCameroon Canada Cayman   Islands	China Colombia Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador El Salvador EstoniaEthiopia Finland France Germany Ghana Greece Haiti Honduras	Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kenya Korea Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Mali Malta Mexico Morocco	Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Rwanda	Samoa Senegal Serbia Singapore South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Tibet Trinidad Tunisia Turkey	Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United KingdomUnited States UruguayUzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Zimbabwe	The Little Forest School Art Class in Tarragona Spain participated in the 1998 and 2000 Exchanges.

Participating Groups:

Art Councils, Art Centers & Galleries, Artist Cooperatives, Bank Cooperatives, Big Sisters, Brownies & Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Choral & Music Groups, Children's Homes, Children's Museums, Church Groups, Community Groups, Environmental Clubs, Families, Fire Stations, Food Coops, Hospitals, Law Firms, Libraries, Neighborhood Groups, Senior Citizens, Schools (Private & Public, Kindergarten through Graduate), Theatre Groups, Women's Clubs, Youth Programs, YMCA's & YWCA's.

Significant Achievements:

• The Global Art Project was nominated for a UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and & Non-Violence.
• In addition to over 170,000 participants who have created and exchanged their heartfelt expressions of love, millions more have been affected through exhibitions, books, slide presentations, hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, television coverage, and the website.
• Since 1994, the Project has brought together thousands of people in local communities who have come together to create, exhibit and then send their artwork off to form a Global Community.
• Visions of Global Unity: Inspired Images from the Global Art Project, a book of 30 images from the first exchange is being sold in The United Nations Bookshop NY and other venues.
• Over 250 Regional Coordinators are organizing Global Art Project activities in their part of the world.
• Inspiring Global Art Project posters are now available to promote peace.
• Hundreds of thousands of paper hands for peace have been created and sent to the Global Art Project for Let’s All Join Hands

Sowing the Seeds of Peace...

• The Kyiv Peace Museum in Ukraine organized groups and individuals to participate in the 2024 exchange.
• Schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; children in the Australian outback; students at Sabari Indian School in United Arab Emirates; and 600 students at Gimnasia Femenino in Bogota, Colombia created art to exchange.
• Art therapy groups around the world participated, including Florence, Italy; Bogota, Colombia; Melbourne, Australia; and Duncan, Canada.
• Organized by the Department of Art and Design and the Department of Education at Beijing Normal University, 65 schools in mainland China — including schools in Inner Mongolia — created art for the exchange.
• For the 2020 exchange, during COVID-19, the Global Art Project for Peace received many messages from participants expressing their gratitude for giving them an opportunity to feel a connection with others around the world during their time of isolation and social distancing.
• Hundreds of groups participated in the 2018 exchange. Included in the groups were thousands of school students in Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, Canada, Spain, USA, UK, UAE, Morocco, China, India, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Turkey and the Czech Republic.
• Daraa Tribes, a music group in Tagounite, Morocco; schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 450 students at Sabari Indian School in the United Arab Emirates; 600 students at Gimnasia Femenino in Bogota, Colombia; and an art therapy group in Florence, Italy are a few of the hundreds of groups that participated in the 2016 exchange.
• Organized by the Department of Art and Design and the Department of Education at Beijing Normal University, 21 schools in mainland China—including schools in Inner Mongolia, created art for the 2012 exchange.
• 300 school children in Kita, Mali, West Africa exchanged art with students at The Village School in Pacific Palisades, California for the 2010 exchange.
• Drummers and dancers in Senegal and a group of women in Iraq created their personal expressions of peace for the 2008 exchange.
• Artists in Minsk, Belarus with children in a sanitorium being rehabilitated from the Chernobyl disaster created a group artwork titled: The Future in Children's Eyes--Without Chernobyl and Hiroshima.
• Taipei National University of the Arts hosted an exhibition of 600 works of art from GAP participants in Taiwan. The art was exhibited in the form of a round dome with works representing the world joining together in The Land Of No Boundaries.
• Peace Corps workers have organized the participation of many individuals, groups and schools in Morocco for the each exchange since 2006.
• 30 installation and performance artists, poets, dancers, and musicians in Bandung, Indonesia gave a performance called Rites for the Earth.
• 280 people in Hiroshima, Japan participated in 1996. They were excited to participate in this event for Peace during the time of the anniversary of the atomic bombing.
• The cardiology department of a VA Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, in association with the Duke University Medical Center, created a group artwork with the understanding that by healing relationships we heal the heart.
• Members of a Tibetan artists' guild in Lhasa exchanged art with a retreat center in Jackson, Michigan. 30 Tibetan refugee children in Kathmandu, Nepal exchanged art with children in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
• "International Dance Network", a troupe of 80 dancers in Japan, created and videotaped a GAP performance.
• The Tucson Museum of Art hosted a comprehensive GAP Exhibition in 1999. KUAT-TV, broadcast out of the University of Arizona, produced a program about the exhibition that aired on PBS. That program plus a 2006 KUAT-TV program video may be purchased to show in classrooms.