Peace and Justice Exhibit Includes Student Art
By Sam Stenroos
Cal State San Marcos’ Art, Media and Design program is presenting global perspectives on peace through the “Designing for Peace and Justice” exhibition. The “Posters for Peace and Justice” is an international traveling poster exhibition founded by Pouya Jahanshahi. It's made up of 23 different artists worldwide that use their expertise in their culture to portray their perspectives of peace.
Jahanshahi will be a guest artist speaker at CSUSM on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 4 p.m. in Arts 239. The exhibition will feature the posters created by designers from China, the United States, Mexico, Iran and Denmark alongside peace posters created by CSUSM students.
Ghazal Foroutan, an assistant professor of graphic design at CSUSM, is the curator for the selection of posters by the students.
“As the curator of this selection, I selected these works because they bring forth peace from a global perspective,” Foroutan said. “Their imagery, color, type and symbols are diverse, yet each can be understood across cultures without translation. Together, they point to the power of graphic design as a visual language, one that can be read by anyone, anywhere.”
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