Today we shine a light on our Musical Director, Dr. Robert Nasta. CONGRATULATIONS!! This award is so well deserved.
The schedule for June 28th is as follows:
—6:00 p.m. Honor presentation on the Main Stage on deKoven Drive, in front of Town Hall in Middletown, Connecticut
—6:15 Concert begins
—7:00 Break
—7:20-8:15- Second set of the concert
—Once it's dark the fireworks will begin!
Artists for World Peace is preparing for our final 6x6 4 PEACE Online Juried Art Show and Auction, which will be held in the fall of 2025.
With the help of thousands of artists who have painted 6x6 canvases since we first premiered our AFWP PEACE WALL in 2017, the proceeds have gone directly to the cost of hosting FREE NATIVE EYES Clinics for members of the Eastern and Western Pequot and other Tribal Nations in Connecticut and Rhode Island; for tribal members on Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, and for our first free clinic in 2017 when we returned home from opening our AFWP Free Health Center we built in Tanzania. Our first clinic was held at Middlesex College in our hometown of Middletown, CT. We invited anyone in our community who are house-less, women and children from a local shelter in need of care, to immigrants living and working here who are uninsured, and to all veterans. Although veterans are provided with free examinations they can only receive prescription eyeglasses every two years. Any veteran in need of a pair of glasses in between that time came to our clinic. To date, with the assistance of thousands of artists, as well as our 2 main sponsors: Essilor and their Changing Life Through Lenses program, as well as Padre Pio Foundation of America, we have taken care of 8,908 patients in need of free eye care.
If you would like to submit and donate a 6”x6” canvas for our upcoming show, please do! Since our show will be online and won’t be traveling on our actual PEACE WALL, you can submit any painting or photograph you would like, even if the size is a bit larger or smaller. 100% of the profit from the show will be used for our upcoming NATIVE EYES Children’s Clinic on Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. This will be our third children’s clinic in the past year. At the first two we saw children in Kindergarten through fifth grades. Our host is the Todd County Elementary School Superintendent and Principle. We were provided with a classroom to use as a permanent clinic for small medical travel teams. For our larger teams we set up in the gymnasium at the school.
As always, we thank you for your generosity. Please feel free to email us with any questions:
wendy@artistsforworldpeace.org
Thank you.
In Peace,
Wendy Black-Nasta
Artists for World Peace Founder/Executive Director
Changing Lives Through the Arts Since 2003
