Dr. Ellen Frank, visionary founder and artistic director of the Ellen Frank Illumination Arts Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization devoted to global peace and understanding through the visual arts. Artist, scholar and writer, Dr. Ellen Frank's many awards in painting, book design, and scholarship include a Fulbright Fellowship, National EndowmentfortheArts,FordFoundationFellowship. Dr.FrankstudiedatYaleandholdsaninterdisciplinarydoctorate in Literature and the Visual Arts from Stanford University.
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Dr. Frank's most recent works, a collection titled "Cities of Peace," will be shown in Poland:

CITIES OF PEACE TREASURE SUITE
Ceremonial opening of the exhibition on the occasion of the 70th Commemoration of the Liberation of Auschwitz
25.01.2015, at 17:00
International Youth Meeting Centre,
The House of Silence Oœwiêcim/Auschwitz, Legionów 11 Poland


CITIES OF PEACE® is a collection of gold-illuminated paintings honoring the history and culture of world cities that have experienced major conflict and trauma: Baghdad, Beijing, Hiroshima, Jerusalem, Kabul, Lhasa, Monrovia, New York, Sarajevo. Cities of Peace directs world attention to the critical role of cities in sustaining what is creative and hopeful in civilization. Cities of Peace emphasizes understanding as prerequisite to peace, and celebrates the best of the human spirit. Inspired by the monumental works, The Cities of Peace Treasure Suite is set of gicléeprintshand- illuminated with 22 karat gold leaf and other precious metals.