Our Request

Your support is essential to our ability to pursue our vision for impact in the new year. We rely on our donors to fund our programs, and the level of support we receive directly impacts the level of programming we can deliver. This December, we need to raise $20,000.

We humbly request your help.

Our Vision of Impact in the New Year

What does peace mean to you? Close your eyes and bring up an image. What is different about the world in your mind’s eye?

These are the questions we ask the hundreds of young people who participate every year in Arts for Peace. In school classrooms and after-school programs across Delaware, they are prompted to think about a peaceful world. Then, they put their visions to paper, sharing their hopes and dreams for connection, for love, for beauty, for all kinds of things that they believe will help drive peace.

Arts for Peace is based on our belief that big changes begin with big ideas. To move towards peace, we must first be able to envision it. When we ask young people to share their visions, we do two things. We invite them to think about the world they want to create for themselves. And we invite a broad community of adults - who visit the exhibitions - to think about what we can do today to help build this world for our children. In the process, we foster relationships and connections across people and communities, building relationships to power our visions.

Since Arts for Peace was launched in 2016, we have exhibited artworks by thousands of young people at hundreds of sites across Wilmington and Delaware. In 2026, we will reach our largest audience yet with an year-long installation in the International Terminal of the Philadelphia International Airport.

And so this feels like a good time to share with our community our plan to deepen and grow this essential part of our work. We are committed to engaging more schools, more community organizations, more teachers, more young people, and more exhibition sites. We want dreaming about peace to be a part of every young person’s journey in Delaware, and something every adult has a chance to engage with.

Peace feels far away on many days, as we are impacted by divisive politics and growing polarization. Arts for Peace can’t single-handedly change this, but we believe it can be a balm and a spark, especially when delivered at scale. Hope and vision are powerful tools, capable of lighting the way. Arts for Peace and Pacem in Terris are dedicated to keeping them alive. Please help us do that by making a gift.

Support a Culture of Peace: Help Pacem in Terris Raise $20,000 by Dec 31

We are raising funds to deepen and grow our impact in 2026. We need your help!