We welcome 3 professionals,
who are deeply committed to Peace, Nonviolence and self expression,
as jurors for the poster contest
Turn From Violence - Make Peace.
Greg J. Lewis
Lynne M. Taylor
Gary A. Spanovich
Greg J. Lewis is an Artist and Design Director with the Greg Lewis Studios practice. He is actively engaged in planning and creating custom artworks for local, regional and national clients in publishing, architecture, interior design, health care and liturgical environments. In addition to his 38-year contemporary art & design practice, he is an Adjunct Professor of Art and Design at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon since 1993. Mr. Lewis holds an AAS degree in Commercial Art and a BS degree in Visual Communications Education from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. greglewisstudios@comcast.net 503-348-5176
Lynne M. Taylor is an award winning artist and photographer, and a resident of the Northwest for over 20 years. As a watercolor artist, she strives to make a statement about the mysteries of the natural world, time and space. Her primary subject matter is symbolic abstracts, in which she combines the softness of organic life, the grandness of universal space, and the mystery of scientific futurism and mythic past, blending her art with her science background. She is also continuing a Celtic series as an exploration of her heritage. Lynne is active in peacemaking, participating in the Peace Now Group at New Thought church, and in its Season of Non Violence. She attended the Parliament of World Religions in Melbourne, Australia. She inspired and helped to organize a very well received Way of Peace art show at the Kingstad Gallery in 2009.
Contact Lynne at her Laurelwood Art Studio, art@laurelwoodart.com; (503) 985-8765, www.laurelwoodart.com, https://www.facebook.com/Lynne.Taylor.artist. Originals and Fine Art giclee reproductions of her paintings are for sale.
Gary A. Spanovich is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the WPI (Wholistic Peace Institute). He has accomplished humanitarian work in India since 1992 and in 1995 helped to build a school for street children there with Rotarian assistance. Through this work he began to do humanitarian work for the 53 Tibetan Refugee camps in India and then began to work directly with the Dalai Lama on world peace. Working with five large Universities in Oregon along with a planning committee of Oregon’s senior faith leaders and also Oregon’s Governor and First Lady, the Mayor of Portland and former US Senator Mark O. Hatfield, he held his first World Peace Conference in 2001. Since then the Institute has held over a dozen major events in Oregon and will hold its first international conference later this year. Mr. Spanovich envisions holding a major world conference once a year and producing a book on the teachings of the Nobel Laureates at each event, to assist with stopping the killing in the world.