44th Annual Peace Exhibition - "A Bridge for Peace"
Sun, Aug 06
|The Makery Los Angeles
Time & Location
Aug 06, 2023, 3:00 PM PDT – Aug 27, 2023, 6:00 PM PDT
The Makery Los Angeles, 260 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
About The Event
LELA INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS 44TH ANNUAL PEACE EXHIBITION A BRIDGE FOR PEACE
August 6, is the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, and August 9 the bombing of Nagasaki. As an international collaborative organization of artists from East and West, LELA has hosted a commemorative exhibition at the Nagasaki Peace Museum for 43 years. This year, our 44th Annual Exhibition, A Bridge for Peace, will be held in Little Tokyo, at the Makery Gallery.
2023 8.9 Peace Show Introduction
The argument for a peaceful, safe, and habitable planet should have been easily won. Seemingly, such endowments are a through-line of all our desires. And yet, humanity often seems far from realizing the goal.
Forty-three years running, the Nagasaki Museum of Art and the artist Hideo Sakata, under the aegis of LELA International, has been quietly, serenely making the case for peace. On August 9th, 1945, Sakata, now a long-established Los Angeles…