Quaker peace-building in art

Linda Murgatroyd writes about creating a calendar for 2018

'CND march.' | Photo: © Martin Morley.

The seeds of the 2018 Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) calendar were sown a long time ago. For years I had heard about Quaker peace-building work, but I was very vague about quite what was involved. Reading about Adam Curle’s practical and academic work (he was the founding professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford) started to give me a clearer sense of this important ministry. As I grew more aware of the importance of the FWCC in supporting Friends around the world, and of the need for Quaker resources other than books in English, I wondered whether there was scope for using art to illustrate and publicise different kinds of Quaker peace witness by making a beautiful and useful wall calendar.

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