Phoenix high school students paint ‘Pianos for Peace’
Local non-profit Anima Mundi Productions organized "Peace Through Music," a concert series that featured Malek Jandali, a Syrian-American pianist, composer, and peace activist.
As part of the events, two pianos painted by local artists were placed in Ashland for people to come and play as they please. The non-profit says it was inspired by Jandali’s own non-profit called Pianos for Peace which is a festival in Atlanta that places donated pianos painted by local artists in public spaces across the city. The pianos are then donated to local community-based organizations.
While one of the piano’s for Anima Mundi’s own festival was painted by a group of local professional artists, the other is being painted by a lucky group of students from Phoenix High School who volunteered to take part.
Anima Mundi Executive Director Ethan Gans-Morse:
This is a chance for real transformation of identify for artists to see themselves as painters, to see themselves as musicians, and to see the arts as a way they can make positive change right here.
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