In the Kresge Gallery, located in the lobby of the Insalaco building, Marywood is taking part in the traveling exhibition known as the Hexagon Project. Twenty posters that were designed by international artists, while students in Professor Christine Medley’s Social Impact Design class here at Marywood are currently on exhibit with their own poster designs. The posters were originally displayed at the Artworks Gallery & Studio in Scranton, PA for the month of September, 2024.

The peace posters on view were designed by international artists as part of the 20×20 Posters for Peace project founded by Pouya Jahanshini, associate professor at Oklahoma State University. He partnered with local artist Beth Burkhauser, the founder and organizer of the Hexagon Project.

In addition to the posters created by the Social Impact design class and other artists, last Monday (October 6, 2024) high school students from the Career Technology Center in Scranton made hexagons about peace. Students were able to design and create their own hexagons in order to add to the exhibit.

Carrer technology students with their hexagons

Calling All Artists

All Marywood students are encouraged to create their own hexagon for the exhibit. There is a table with art supplies and blank hexagons set up inside the gallery for anyone to drop in and make a peace hexagon throughout the month of October 2024. The exhibit runs October 3-30th, Kresge Gallery, Insalaco Center for Studio Arts, with the public closing ceremony being held for all to attend on Tuesday October 29, 2024 from 4-5:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome.

---

Marywood University Social Justice & Advocacy Day 2024

During social advocacy day on October 23, 2024, the campus community is invited to come over and make their own peace hexagons and display them in the gallery. Additionally, Professor Pouya Jahanshini will give a short presentation on the 23rd about the Posters for Peace project.

---

About Posters for Peace & The Hexagon Project

The Posters for Peace project includes 20 posters from Iranian graphic artists and show cases them side by side with 20 posters created by their international counterpart. The goal of this project is to help promote peace despite all of the harsh conflicts in today’s world. The project chose posters as its medium to express this goal, as humans have been using posters to unite and share a message for centuries as a way to express a singular message from the artist to the audience.

The Hexagon Project also aims for a similar goal which is to promote a sense of belonging to a wide community and to bring people together by emphasizing the importance of interdependency and interconnectedness on the local, the national and the global scale. The shape was chosen to represent interdependence and interconnectedness due to the complex relationship with its lines and bonds, similar to human relationships.