Gayil Nalls
Commissioned Projects and Public Art → The Award of Peace, Global Symposium of Peaceful Nations




The Award of Peace, 2009
Global Symposium of Peaceful Nations
Copper, brass and black marble
8 x 8 x 4 inches
Edition of 18, with 2 a/p

The understandings humanity gains through a systematic study of peace is extremely important for the survival of civilization and the earth. The award depicts an olive branch, one of the oldest universally recognized symbols of peace—mature, extending, and bearing fruit ready for harvest. For The Global Symposium of Peaceful Nations and the world, the fruit is the resulting findings and strategies to achieve a peaceful world.

—Gayil Nalls, PhD, 2009