WisdomScenes is a start-up, non-profit venture to create and share inspirational paintings and posters for children.
The basic
idea:
There are
many great sayings that inspire, uplift, and guide people. These come from great moral and spiritual
leaders from all cultures and historical periods. Hearing these sayings can
inspire people to take more positive action in life. WisdomScenes
will commission artists to paint an action scene that exemplifies a great
saying. These paintings will be available as posters targeted to children for schools and
parents. Grants will be sought to provide the financing for commissioning the paintings and offering posters free to public
schools.
The words of
many great sayings are already used to produce posters. Usually though, a beautiful nature
picture is used as a backdrop to the words. Sometimes a beautiful abstract
painting is used as a backdrop. Looking at these can be uplifting and may
induce a viewer to more positive behavior.
However, instead of using an unrelated background scene, a beautiful,
related painting can be used to show a person acting out the saying.
This will be
more memorable and subconsciously more impactful to the viewer. It can
be especially impactful to younger children if the scene is painted
showing children like themselves acting out the saying.
The need:
Our children today desperately need more uplifting inspiration in
their lives to counteract the downwards effects of much of the mass
media that they are exposed to. Having a parent hang an uplifting poster
on the child's wall, while a small effort, can help.
The goal:
The goal of WisdomScenes will be to ultimately have hundreds of
posters. The posters will be offered singularly or in sets of 52 to
parents, so they can hang a different one on the wall every week. These
"weekly postings" can become a wonderful discussion point between parent
and child. A booklet will accompany each poster set that will suggest
discussions to have with the children and also with suggested activities
for how the child (and parent) can exemplify the saying over the week.
It would could be very powerful for the parent and child to agree on
what actions they each will take over the next week relating to the
saying.
The posters will include both great moral sayings and great
spiritual sayings. It is anticipated that funding will be obtained to
distribute posters with just the moral sayings to public schools. While
the posters with deep spiritual sayings would be distributed to parents
and private schools.
PLEASE HELP!
Currently this is a totally volunteer effort. Any and all help is needed!
Please read the Help page.
If you can help please contact:
Eric Munro
email: walking1meditation@gmail.com
cell phone: 6.5.0.4.0.0.1.2.2.9.
skype: email to setup a call.
