lhtorres

I'm a writer, artist and educator living in Vermont. In 2005 I started the Global Peace Tiles Project as a way to share the joy of creativity through collage with children around the world. Today Peace Tiles is an international network of artists and educators who use the process to address a range of community issues and raise them up for public discussion through murals, exchanges, and other participatory activities. I am also a consultant with a local effort to develop a time bank here in Central Vermont. The idea is to match people's free time and talent with needs in the community. The Onion River Exchange will launch sometime before the summer of 2008. I blog at http://mixedmedia.us and share developments with Peace Tiles at http://www.peacetiles.net. Also an active participator at http://www.ned.com