Cities of Peace

Background

Ellen Frank

In Medias Res: Song of the Downy Woodpecker 

Japan Color, egg tempera, gouache, Gold (Caplain, Red and Champagne) on English vellum

32 x 32 inches

2021

In honor of nurses

“I was in the ER for 5 days straight. I am afraid to go home. Because if I go home I will miss the dying. I will miss helping my colleagues. I cannot go home. I cannot.”

“I am so afraid. I am so afraid of losing my patients but I know I am losing my self. “

Ellen Frank

Artist, scholar, and writer, Ellen Frank has received many awards in painting, book design and scholarship. In 2018, Dr. Frank was named Fulbright Specialist in Peacebuilding and Reconciliation, U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning, and received an Award for Excellence for Cities of Peace from KFOR / NATO.

In 2004, Dr. Frank founded Ellen Frank Illumination Arts Foundation, Inc., a non-profit global organization dedicated to the transformative power of art to build a culture of understanding and peace. CITIES OF PEACE is its primary initiative. As artistic director, Dr. Frank has trained artist-interns from more than 52 countries, and unites scholars and experts to work on its joint creations.