SOS Art Cincinnati

SOS ART Mission:

1) encourage, promote and provide opportunities and venues for the arts as dynamic vehicles for peace and justice, for a change, and for a better world
2) encourage artists of all ages and backgrounds (including children) to use their art as their voice and communication tool on issues of peace and justice that concern them, their community and the world. 3) facilitate the creation of a local community of artists who network and collaborate together using art as a means to impact issues of peace and justice in the community where they live.
4) use the arts to speak about, inform, educate and create a dialogue on issues of peace and justice and thus to bring about positive change.
5) through educational activities, use the arts to introduce basic values of peace and justice in children and youth

How does SOS ART Achieve its Mission?

1) SOS ART organizes a yearly Exhibit and Festival of the Arts focused on Peace and Justice. It is open and free to all Greater Cincinnati Artists, including children from various schools and after school programs
2) SOS ART publishes regularly books that pertain to art and peace and justice, including 2 yearly ones: “SOS ART” book and “For a Better World: Book of Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists”. All SOS ART’s publications can be viewed
at: https://sosartcincinnati.com/publications/
3) SOS ART directs and facilitates workshops and art classes in schools and after school programs, linking the teaching and the practice of art to the introduction of basic values and values of peace and justice in the youth
4) SOS ART curates and organizes exhibits of local artists and of artists from other countries on the themes of peace and justice
5) SOS ART organizes panel discussions, public debates, poetry readings, etc. all on the themes of peace and justice