The more evolved you are, the more of the universe is in your view.
YASUHIKO KIMURA
We receive the light, then we impart the light. Thus we repair the world.
KABBALAH
In 1982, a group of five activists in Syracuse, New York sat around a card table in the living room of Dik Cool and asked themselves, “What can we do? What’s needed now? What do we want for ourselves?” The nation was awash in anxiety as the superpowers amassed massive arsenals of nuclear weapons, outdoing each other’s capacity to destroy the world many times over. The group of thirty-somethings had experience in corporate America, religious communities, publishing, the peace and women’s movements, the art world, and the local university. They considered themselves agents of change. There was no doubt that they could make a difference, but where did they want to make it, and how did they want to work together?
After a few sessions, the group organized itself as a publisher and distributor of artwork that would offer an alternative vision to a world besieged with images of destruction. They named themselves the Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW), and on good-faith credit from a local print shop, they published three thousand Peace Calendars, with images of demonstrations for disarmament that were occurring around the world. With those proceeds, they paid the printer and went on to publish artistic posters, datebooks, and note cards that drew attention to global issues of social justice. They compiled a catalog of these items to announce themselves as publishers in the business of peace and justice, and put the word out to artists across the country that they were looking for and paying for “art with a social conscience.”
YASUHIKO KIMURA
We receive the light, then we impart the light. Thus we repair the world.
KABBALAH
In 1982, a group of five activists in Syracuse, New York sat around a card table in the living room of Dik Cool and asked themselves, “What can we do? What’s needed now? What do we want for ourselves?” The nation was awash in anxiety as the superpowers amassed massive arsenals of nuclear weapons, outdoing each other’s capacity to destroy the world many times over. The group of thirty-somethings had experience in corporate America, religious communities, publishing, the peace and women’s movements, the art world, and the local university. They considered themselves agents of change. There was no doubt that they could make a difference, but where did they want to make it, and how did they want to work together?
After a few sessions, the group organized itself as a publisher and distributor of artwork that would offer an alternative vision to a world besieged with images of destruction. They named themselves the Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW), and on good-faith credit from a local print shop, they published three thousand Peace Calendars, with images of demonstrations for disarmament that were occurring around the world. With those proceeds, they paid the printer and went on to publish artistic posters, datebooks, and note cards that drew attention to global issues of social justice. They compiled a catalog of these items to announce themselves as publishers in the business of peace and justice, and put the word out to artists across the country that they were looking for and paying for “art with a social conscience.”
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