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ARTISTS FOR WORLD PEACE NATIVE EYES

HOSTED BY

Sinte Gleska University

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

Essilor Foundation/ Sinte Gleska University/ Changing Life Through Lenses/ Lions International - District 23-C - CT,/Lions of Massachusetts - District 33-A/ Middlesex Eye Physicians-Middletown, CT/ Padre Pio Foundation of America/ PINE Pharmaceuticals/ Tree of Life/ All of the artists who painted a 6x6 4 PEACE painting for our traveling PEACE WALL shows/ AFWP photographers who donated their work to our Virtual Art Show - 2022/ Sights On Health (Donation of Sunglasses)

ARTISTS FOR WORLD PEACE 

2022 NATIVE EYES TRAVEL TEAM TO ROSEBUD RESERVATION

Wendy Black-Nasta - AFWP Founding Director/NATIVE EYES Clinic Founding Director/

Ray Dennis - NATIVE EYES Optical Lead/ Dr. Faraneh Carnegie-Hargreaves - Wendy’s Assistant

PEDIATRIC TEAM

Dr. Michelle Levi- Pediatric Ophthalmologist/ Dr. Greg Waldord - Pediatric Optometrist

Dr. Marianne Boltz Gormican - Pediatric Optometrist/ Thomas Ricciutti/ Marufa Khandaker

NATIVE EYES CLINIC OPHTHALMOLOGISTS

Dr. Joseph Bacotti/ Dr. John Distler

NATIVE EYES CLINIC OPTOMETRISTS

Dr. Ana Marie Gomes/ Dr. Scott Yap/ Dr. James Bozzuto

OPTICIANS/OPTICAL

Bob Stern/ Emily Rose DeLarm/ Robert Ruscansky/ Deb White/ Rosemary Dennis

Karen Dennis/ Elissa Godfrey/ Lily Bacotti

REGISTRATION/AFWP VOLUNTEERS 

Sam Samuelson - Registration Coordinator/ Terri Atkinson Jeannie Distler - artist

DOCUMENTARY TEAM

Forrest Sassaman - Videographer/Documentarian/ Robert Nasta - Sound recording - pre and post production - Composer/Musician

TRIBAL MEMBER TEAM

President Lionel Bordeaux/Debra Bordeaux/ Wilma Robertson/ Angie Fast Horse/ Talisa Fast Horse/ Colleen Fast Horse/ Roger Ellert Jr./ Cheryl Medearis/ AmberMedearis Administrative Assistant/ Margaret (Maggie) MacKichan SGU Maintenance and Security

Hundreds of children get free art supplies courtesy of Middletown nonprofit

By Press Staff Published 1:00 pm EDT, Wednesday, August 12, 2020

MIDDLETOWN — Last weekend’s Buckets of Love children’s giveaway, spearheaded by city-based Artists for World Peace, distributed 300 beach buckets and supplies to keep kids busy over the summer. A steady stream of families picked up supplies Saturday, arriving by car, motor scooter, bicycle and on foot, according to coordinator Phyllis Sheridan. “Smiles were shining all morning, easy to see with or without masks,” she said. Various packages contained glitter and regular paint, sidewalk chalk, sketchbooks, journals, markers, crayons, pens and pencils, bubbles, colored paper, scissors, glue sticks and other items.

Artists for World Peace is appreciative to its sponsors, Sheridan said: the Community Foundation of Middlesex County, AFWP Council of Elders, Molly Salafia, Katherine Lambert, Target, Alex & Cavs discount store and the Middletown Police Department for helping plan a safe, healthy event.

ARTISTS FOR WORLD PEACE began in 2003 with one simple question: HOW CAN ARTISTS HELP CHANGE THE WORLD? The answer has been their quest for the past 18 years–whether it's in huge ways–– such as building a health center, an orphanage, a battered woman's shelter... Or by opening Free EYE and DENTAL clinics for those in need––To feeding the hungry, educating children around the world, supporting their family that they call their "Children of Peace" or.... just in handing a child a BUCKET OF LOVE (Free art supplies, bubbles and summer fun during this pandemic).  Any way that Artists for World Peace can put a smile on someone's face or warm someone's heart– THEY ARE THERE!

AFWP FREE EYE CLINICS

The 6x6 PEACE Project and the PEACE WALL

To date, the Peace Wall has been featured at art shows and galleries in Connecticut and New York City, and has traveled to Florence, Italy. The PEACE WALL is always on the move. Thus far for 2019 the wall will be featured at galleries in Rhode Island, Louisville, Kentucky, and Connecticut.