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The Peace Dots Project is a community-based art project intended to flip the idea of ‘Crime Dots’ to ‘Peace Dots.’ Peace Dots are random acts of kindness, peace offerings, conflict resolution, or any action that creates hope and makes a positive impact, whether it be an act personally experienced or one witnessed from afar.
You’re invited to add your story of peace, hope and positivity by completing the survey form on the Submission Page. Responses are welcome from all ages. There is no limit to the number of entries.
This project includes an extended outreach and engagement period, where YOU can submit your stories to the project as data. Share a random act of kindness that happened to you. Where did it happen? When did it happen? What color would you attribute to that moment? What emotion would you attribute to it?
Stories will be collected through 2022 and can be submitted through 1) website submissions (visit peacedotsproject.com!), 2) social media submissions (share a video and tag @peacedotsproject, or send us a dm!), and 3) in physical locations throughout the community (partner locations announced in spring 2022!). The artist will collect the ‘data,’ and will be visually representing it in the form of oil painting. The project will culminate in a body of work representing the peace dots of our city.
Not in Buffalo? No problem! Peace dots are accepted from around the globe. Submit your peace dot with the hashtag #peacedot[CITYNAME]
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As a community organizer, artist Saira Siddiqui intimately works with maps that tell neighborhood stories. Often, these maps are driven by hard data and relay wealth and health disparities. This project looks at data from another angle, and captures moments of peace, random acts of kindness, and thoughtful gestures seen around Buffalo and beyond.
Saira is a Buffalo native who worked on the west coast and eventually traveled around several countries. When she moved back to Buffalo in 2019, she experienced the rise of the street art scene around Buffalo. She began working in the community development field locally and realized there was a disconnect between the narrative and identity of neighborhoods and the street art. This inspired her to pursue a master’s degree that merges her background in community development and facilitation with her independent painting practice, so she can involve residents and community members with the public art process from concept to creation.
