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Many panels from the 2007 Peace Fence were lost to wind, weather, and theft. They no longer hang on the Peace Fence, but they - and many of the artists who created them - are fondly remembered and pictured below.

The Peace Fence gratefully acknowledges our sponsorship by Ashland's Lithia Artisans Market. http://www.lithiaartisansmarket.com.

We are grateful for the help and support Ashland's Peace House: http://www.peacehouse.net.

Grateful acknowledgement to Sue Springer of Illahe Gallery for her design and oversight in building the Peace Wall. Visit her web site: http://www.illahegallery.com/

Ashland Gallery Association - http://www.ashlandgalleries.com/

Panel by Marsa Morse

"Change for Peace, Peace for Change" by Jane Higgenbottom

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Elias Alexander plays bagpipes for the fence opening, May, 2007.

Dancing For Peace

Cat & Antone

"Earth Mother" by Steve McCaren

"Celebrate Mothers Saving the World" by Marta Gomez



"Peace Begins With A Smile"

Rebecca and J Ellen

Panel by Wendy Eppinger

Batik Peace Doves
Pam Rice

Kay Stein interviews a visitor to the Peace Fence for Jefferson Public Radio.

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Oil Painting/Collage

Denise Kester

Fabric panels added to the Fence on October 17, 2007. The left panel was created by Niall Ransford, Cameron Ransford, Nan Campbell, and Mariah. The right panel is braided fabric, by Jeremy Woods.

"All Is Well" by Kay Stein, added to the fence on July 31, 2007.

Jean Bakewell

Jan Rice, Organizer, with one of her panels

Organizer Jean Bakewell with her panel, "Fat Cats and Dragonflys"

Kate Geary, Organizer, with her panel

Kay Cutter, Organizer, with her panel

Nancy Bardos, Organizer, with her panel

Nancy Parker, Organizer, with her panel

Jeff and Maureen Pollitt, visiting from Canada, add their repaired panel to the fence - September, 2007

"Beyond all right doing and all wrong doing, there is a field. I will meet you there." - Rumi

Panel by Judith Whitman-Small

Collage by Cody



Panels by Jan Schmidt

Patty Groth with peace dogs Lou and Rico.

Created by Christina Buell & James Larson, students from Southern Oregon University (SOU), added to the fence on 10/6/07.

"Peace Now" by Jean Bakewell, added to the fence on 9/11/07.

Quilted panel by Cathy Tronquet

"And together we stand, the strong and the meek, the large and the small, together we dare to love."

Panel by Mariah Southworth, age15

"As the wind blows through your hair, you know you are where you belong." - Panel by Hannah Southworth, age 12.

Reaching For Peace

Steve Birnbaum

Panel by Unity, Medford, Oregon, www.unitymedford.org

September 11, 2007 Gathering at the Peace Fence. Four new panels are added to the Fence.

Cosmic Mother - Panel by Jim Malachi

"We Stand For Peace - Jean, Jill, David, Gramma Kay, Michael (5 years old), and Jennifer (4 months old). Added to the Peace Fence on July 27, 2007. Talk about walking the walk!

Panel by Esther Bell and Darrelle Cavan

Christmas Eve, 2007, at the Peace Fence.
Photo by Kate Geary

"Make Salad, Not War"

Southern Oregon University Gay Alliance

Panel by Cynthia, Whidbey Island, WA

A visitor to the Fence was so moved by the display of peace banners on the chain-link fence near Ashland’s railroad tracks that she contributed one she had hanging in her own backyard.

(Staff photo, courtesy of Medford Mail Tribune)

This panel was added on June 7, 2007 - "Choose Peace" by Sally McKirgan (Ashland) and Jane Williams (Vaughn, Washington).

"Great Goddess - Be with our family in Iraq. Be with our Afghani Family," and in the top right corner, "Painted days before the US first bombed Afghanistan." Added to the fence June 16, 2007. Perhaps someone's prayer flag, created before the current mideast war began.

Added to the fence on September 24, 2007: "Exchange Your Weapons for Artist Brushes and Paint the World with Love Sweet Love" by Mason and Myles Green-Richards, and the agents of Patricia Sprague Realty of Ashland, Oregon.

"Flight for Peace" - Panel by Cici Brown

Panel by Unity, Medford, Oregon, www.unitymedford.org


          "The Joyfulness in all of us will heal the world." by "A Joyful Healer - Markleyville, California

"Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned" - Buddha

This beautiful panel appeared mysteriously August 16th, 2007. It uses dyes and perhaps bleach and depicts a lotus blossom, the earth with a heart at its center, as well as the peace dove and peace symbol. It is unsigned and the artist is unknown.

By Cathi Lair's Second Grade Class

and Marcella (Isabella's Mom)

Invincible

A poem for the Peace Fence By Ron Hertz

      in motherly wisdom the woman conceived a vision

     shared it with her friends and it came into fruition…

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along the tracks, beside the trodden path

a Peace Fence should be—a many-paneled

tapestry of hopes and images—visible reflections

of the world we the people want to see—

a panorama of admonitions and dreams

so those walking or biking by this way

might understand our deepest yearning,

our many-colored poignant pleas for peace…

and soon this fence (nurtured in meditation)

blossomed into actualization—two hundred

harlequin testaments, warnings, aspirations…

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but a certain few could not endure it—

to them something in these exuberant displays

seemed sinister—abhorrent—threatening

(to their sense of flag or proud manhood)

so in dark of night they tore the tapestries down

(tried to rip the rainbow hopes to ragged tatters)

but never in their petty venting rampage

could they destroy what really matters…

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for beautiful dreams live beyond the hands

of vandals—they can never be shredded or burned,

stolen or forgotten—inside us they gleam

and emanate their truth in varied ways:

on photograph-tiled walls outside of libraries,

in passionate memories and irrepressible yearnings,

in sweet melodies and many-voiced harmonies,

in our kindness, caring and sympathy,

(for the victim, the soldier, the refugee,

even for haters who offer no apology)--

in our vision of who we might evolve to be,

through eyes of our children and grandchildren

we see and feel the hopes of all humanity

and we will not be deterred…

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yes deepest wishes transcend mere materiality

(soulfully true, they live into eternity)

and someday soon (we pray and fervently believe)

our dreams of peace will become reality…

This about says it all - added to the fence August 23, 2007 by Ralph and Ian.

"May there always be love to gather and love to share."

A Story of Lilacs

Poem and panel by Kathleen Meagher

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