Peace Exhibit Coming to Wyandotte Arts Center

An art show focused on peace is coming to the .

The exhibit will be on display for less than a month, however, before the pieces are taken down and shared with other artists from around the globe.

Eighteen Downriver artists have banded together under the name “A Peace of the D” to participate in the 2012 Global Art Project for Peace, an international project founded in 1993.

Their work will be on display at the arts center from March 30 to April 21. After the exhibit closes, each local artist will be matched with another artist from somewhere in the world and the two will exchange their artwork "as a gift of global friendship," organizer Cheryl Art said.

The program, which has linked 100,000 participants on all seven continents, is designed "to create a culture of peace through art," Alt said.

The 18 participating artists are Alt, Janus Benda, Marilyn Bomarito, Vickie Boteler, Nicole Camilleri, Angela Griggs, Donna Hinson, Laurie Hofman, Madeleine Jones, Brenda Jordan, Marianne Letasi, Colleen Lough, Martine MacDonald, Carol Reid, Jelane Richardson, Nadine Vadasy, Barb Whitson and Irene Will. 

Paintings by students from River Rouge's Sabbath Middle School Project Achieve Program also will be on display.   

An opening reception is set for 6 to 8 p.m. March 30 and a closing reception is set for 6 to 8 p.m. April 20.

For more information on the Global Art Project for Peace, visit its website.