Global apparel retailer UNIQLO has announced a series of free art workshops, titled ‘Bouquet of Peace’, to be held in 25 cities worldwide including Paris, New York, and Tokyo, starting this month.
TOKYO, 19 MARCH - Global apparel retailer UNIQLO has announced a series of free art workshops, titled ‘Bouquet of Peace’, to be held in 25 cities worldwide including Paris, New York, and Tokyo, starting this month.
The workshops will be held to mark the release of the newest addition to UNIQLO’s PEACE FOR ALL charity T-shirt project, which features a design by Pablo Picasso, the artist who revolutionized the art world of the 20th century.
Conducted with the scientific assets of the Musée National Picasso Paris and non-profit art organization Artolution, these special workshops invite people to draw artwork inspired by Picasso’s ‘Bouquet of Friendship’ (1958), which was created for the Peace Conference held in Stockholm in 1958 and is used as the design for the PEACE FOR ALL T-shirt.
Artwork created by participants around the world will be assembled at the Musée National Picasso Paris to form one large art piece filled with wishes for peace, which will then be exhibited at the UNIQLO Marais store in Paris starting in May.
In Japan, a pop-up workshop corner will be held on the 4th floor of the UNIQLO TOKYO store, where anyone can freely create art pieces inspired by Picasso's work, on the theme of peace.
Through connection with Picasso's works, which go beyond the boundaries of art and continue to touch the hearts of many today, this project seeks to convey the message of world peace that Picasso advocated throughout his lifetime.
About PEACE FOR ALL
The PEACE FOR ALL project, launched in June 2022, features graphic T-shirts with designs expressing a wish for peace, which are provided voluntarily by contributors with close ties to UNIQLO who support the aim of "taking action with a desire for world peace." All profits from sales of PEACE FOR ALL T-shirts are donated to international humanitarian organizations. To date, a total of 42 contributors have provided T-shirt designs, with more than 6.6 million shirts sold, raising more than US$12.8 million* in donations. The funds raised are provided to three partner organizations to support emergency humanitarian assistance, to protect the lives of displaced people around the world, and to aid children who are facing difficult circumstances due to conflicts or other issues. (Figures as of January 2025.)
Pablo Picasso / Artist
Painter, sculptor, and printmaker born in Málaga, Spain. In 1900 at age nineteen, Pablo Picasso made his first visit to Paris, where he was based from 1904 through the 1940s. Paris is also where he spent his formative “Blue Period” and “Rose Period” and became known as a founder of the Cubist movement which fundamentally revamped the way that objects are perceived. His endless search for new modes of expression led him beyond the world of painting into the realms of sculpture, ceramics, literature and music, leaving a deep impression across the whole of modern art.
About the Musée national Picasso-Paris
The Musée national Picasso-Paris collection is the only one in the world to provide a comprehensive overview of Picasso's paintings, sculptures, engravings and drawings, as well as a precise evocation of the artist's creative process through sketches, studies, sketchbooks, successive states of engravings, photographs, illustrated books, films and documents. The Musée Picasso Paris collection comprises more than 5,000 works and over two hundred thousand archive items.
About Artolution www.artolution.org
Artolution is a global community-based public art education organization seeking to ignite social change through collaborative art making led by teams of local and refugee teaching artists across five continents. Each program brings together communities in the face of conflict, displacement and social exclusion to address the trauma and challenges that they face, amplifying their voices to strengthen and transform their future. Artolution has facilitated more than 2000 projects in refugee camps, conflict zones and crisis-affected communities in 35 countries with over 200 teaching artists globally, and has teams of teaching artists in Uganda, Colombia, Jordan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Ukraine, Myanmar, Kenya and the U.S.
Donation recipients
UNIQLO parent company Fast Retailing contributes all profits from the sale of PEACE FOR ALL T-shirts (equivalent to 20% of the selling price) to three international non-profit organizations through their representatives. Donations are used to fund activities for international peace.
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