Pocahontas Creative Arts Initiative

The Pocahontas Project (TPP) has developed the Pocahontas Creative Arts Initiative to inspire and facilitate an ever-expanding multi-disciplinary collection of creative art efforts wrapped around the life, legend and legacy of the woman most famously known as Pocahontas. It is hoped and expected this growing collection of art commemorating and celebrating Pocahontas – painting, sculpture, theater, ballet, dance, music, song, poetry, photography, and so much more – will in turn inspire hope and purposeful action in a growing number of people around the world collectively working towards a peaceful and sustainable future for all humankind.

The signature project of the Pocahontas Creative Arts Initiative is called A Piece of Peace (APOP) This collaborative art concept intersects all artistic mediums and simply involves a group of artists creating a work of art inspired by peace, with each artist then becoming a piece of peace. For more information about APOP including a variety of artistic mediums, please go here.

In support of their creation TPP offers artist groups a full accounting of the history of the life of Pocahontas from multiple sources, as well as a variety of perspectives on her historic and cultural significance; over the past four hundred years, today and into the future. TPP will also do all it can to facilitate connections between artists – locally, nationally and internationally – and is working to develop partner relationships with a wide variety of organizations, agencies and entities that support, promote and facilitate the creative arts, as well as those that collect and interpret history and culture. TPP is proud and honored to have intersected with the following artists and organizations in the name of Pocahontas:

Michael Walling/Border Crossings (UK) - https://www.bordercrossings.org.uk/
- Michael Walling is the Artistic Director of Border Crossings, a London UK based theatrical company which offers intercultural multi-media theatre across borders
Madeline Sayet (USA) - https://www.madelinesayet.com/
- Madeline Sayet is a theatre-maker whose work is shaped by the idea of Story Medicine: the belief that every story we put into this world has the power to do real world harm or healing
The Grand / GYG = Gifted Young Generation (UK) - https://www.wearegyg.co.uk/
- The Grand / GYG offers multi-disciplinary arts programming to youth in Gravesend, England where Pocahontas is buried
Benjamin Victor (USA) - www.benjaminvictor.com
- Ben Victor is a world renowned sculpture artist with four sculptures in the US Capitol Statuary Hall who has completed a bronze maquette of Pocahontas / Matoaka - Patron of Peace

For more information about the Pocahontas Creative Arts Initiative

contact Rick Tatnall @ The Pocahontas Project:
rick@pocahontasproject.org