The Lion and Lamb: Peace Garden

PEACE GARDEN  -  YOUNG ARTISTS GALLERY  - 
 


Preview of the Honda Outdoor Sculpture Garden
Funded by Honda Corporation and dedicated in 1997 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center.  This outdoor setting reflects various aspects of peace and recognize the efforts of individuals who lived the message of peace for the sake of others.


“There is no way to peace.  Peace is the way.”  - A.J. Muste


PEACE HOUSE by Jack Mann
This sculpture of stainless steel suggests some definitions of the peaceful and not-so-peaceful world of “home:” a nest of birds with a cat hovering below, a haven where children create and act out their dreams or a place where everything is turned upside down.  Peace House, created by a Wittenburg University art professor, invites those whose faces are reflected in the mirror-finish of the sculpture to think about “home” and to place within one of the four rooms something from their world that can make Peace House a personal experience for them.

JOHNAH AND THE WHALE by Gregg Luginbuhl
Jonah’s deliverance from the whale was created as an acrobatic resurgence, a kind of spiritual transformation.  Free from any encumbrances, the open figure’s leap and reach are juxtaposed with the cruciform flukes of the whale.  Surrounded by stone seats, visitors to this bronze sculpture by a Bluffton University professor are invited to sit and ponder their own experiences of transformation from chaos to peace.

PEACE THRONES by B. Amore and Woody Dorsey
Located below Sauder Visual Arts Center near the Riley Creek and based on legends found in many cultures, the three large granite rocks create as a neutral space to foster dialogue and listening in an effort to resolve conflict through dialogue without resorting to violence. 

INTERNATIONAL PEACE POLE
The six-sided western cedar International Peace Pole was planted in 2007 to mark The Lion and Lamb’s twentieth years of promoting peace. 

“May peace prevail on earth” is translated into twelve languages, most of which represent the languages of current Bluffton University students: Arabic, Bosnia, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Lakota Sioux, Russian, Spanish and Swahili.

PEACE WALL AND MOON GATE by Jon Barlow Hudson
Using mixed media, this sculptor replicated the Berlin Wall, a prison wall, a stockade wall and a memorial wall as an interactive art experience representing how we close people out, hold them in or immortalize them with walls of various kinds.  On the stockade, prison and memorial wall sections are the names of those who have spent their lives working for peace and justice.  Some have died as a result, some have been imprisoned but all, regardless of the sacrifice, have been committed to working for peace and justice around the globe.  The 800 four inch graffiti tiles on the Berlin Wall were designed by Lima Senior High School art students under the direction of art teacher and Bluffton graduate student Lisa Arnett Carver.  The circular shape of the moon gate represents unity and completeness entering our lives.  Passing through the moon gate is a symbolic gesture of refusing to allow walls to separate us from others.

Granite Section of Peace Wall

Oscar Romero
 
El Salvadoran Archbishop, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, assassinated
 

Jesus Christ
 

incarnate Son of God, taught followers to love their enemies and turn the other cheek
Mahatma Gandhi
 
launched campaigns of nonviolent resistance in South Africa and India
 
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, advocate for civil rights and non-violence resistance
Seth Laughlin
 
Quaker, refused military service during Civil War, arrested and tortured, died in prison

Maurilia Coc Macs
Santiago Coc Pop 

Guatemalan Indian children killed by the army in October 1995
 

Helen Caldicott 
 

anti-nuclear activist, physician
 
Harriet Tubman
 
abolitionist, escaped from slavery in 1849, helped others to freedom
 
David Dodge
 
a merchant and pacifist, founder of New York Peace Society in 1815
 
Thomas Merton
 
religious writer and poet, Trappist monk, priest
 
Gustavo Parajon
 
Nicaraguan peace mediator with John Paul Lederach
 
Mubarak Awad
 
founder of Nonviolence International and Palestinian Center for Nonviolence in Jerusalem
Margareta Sattler
Michael Sattler
drowned/burned at the stake as martyrs for Anabaptist faith
 
Baldemar Velasquez
 
Latino leader and Ohio farm labor organizer
 
Stephen Wang
 
victim of Great Cultural Revolution in China; Educational Exchange Student to Bluffton
Mother Teresa
 
Catholic missionary serving poor of India, Nobel Prize winner
 
Dorothy Day
 
Catholic Worker Movement, pacifist, “Houses of Hospitality” in voluntary poverty
Stephen Biko
 
South African founder/leader of Black Consciousness Movement, died in police custody
Peace Pilgrim
 
walked 2500+ miles to advocate for peace among: nations, groups, individuals, inner peace
Daniel Gerber
 
MCC volunteer in Vietnam
 
Ivo Markovic
 
Bosnian Franciscan priest, international peacemaking efforts, lives in exile in Zagreb
Ken Saro-Wiwa
 
Nigerian human rights, murdered by the military government
 
Ita Ford, Maura Clarke,
Jean Donovan, Dorothy Kazel
nuns killed by the military in El Salvador in 1980
 
Myles Horton
 
founded the Highlander Folk School and was active in the early Civil rights movement
Colman McCarthy
 
founder/director of the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington D. C
 
Dom Helger Camara
 
Brazilian archbishop, social worker, human rights organizer, advocate of the poor
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
 
Argentine Nobel Prize winner, leader of Servicio Paz y Justicia
 
Norman Bent
 
Nicaraguan peace mediator with John Paul Lederach
 
Ted Studebaker
 
social worker killed by Viet Cong
 
Menno Simons
 
Anabaptist peacemaker in the 16th century, “Mennonite” derived from his name
Anna Janz
 
Anabaptist martyr remembered through letter to her infant son, Isaiah; in Martyr’s Mirror
Dirk Willems
 
Anabaptist who rescued his persecutor from drowning and was later executed
 
Clayton Kratz
 
MCC worker in Ukraine, arrested and vanished
 
Bartolome de las Casas
 
advocate for Native American rights and justice
 
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peacemaker between Christians and Buddhists
 
St. Maximilianus
 
North Africa, refused to go to war
 
Jeanette Rankin
 
first woman elected to Congress, pacifist, voted against U.S entry into both World Wars
St. Francis of Assisi 
 
Franciscan rule: ”…not to take up deadly weapons or bear arms against anyone.”
Paulo Freire
 
Brazilian educator
 
Bayard Rustin
 
founder of Congress on Racial Equality
 
WM. Lloyd Garrison
 
anti-slavery advocate
 
Norman Thomas
 
minister in the Fellowship of Reconciliation, “You cannot conquer war by war.”
 
George Fox
 
Quaker leader/founder Society of Friends
 
Lydia Maria Child
 
peace advocate and abolitionist
 
Maria Weston Chapman
 
abolitionist
 
Elihu Burrett
 
founded the first secular pacifist organization in the U.S, the “Learned Blacksmith”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 
woman’s rights advocate, organized the first Woman’s Rights Convention
 
Mohamed Anwar El Sadat
 
former president of Egypt, Nobel Peace Prize winner, assassinated
 

Jane Addams
 

pacifist and social worker, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize
 


Stockade Walls of Peace Wall

Black Kettle
 
Cheyenne chief, peace advocate for Native Americans despite threats on his life
 
Deganwide
 
founder of the league of five Iroquois nations and the Law of the Great Peace
 
Leonard Peltier
 
American Indian Movement leader, falsely accused of murder and imprisoned
 
Sequoyah
 
creator of the Cherokee writing system
 
Lawrence Hart
 
Cheyenne peace chief
 
Black Elk
 
Oglala Lakota religious leader who became a Christian and shared his faith with other tribes
Chief Joseph
 
Wallowa Valley Nez Perce leader, peace advocate between Native Americans and whites
 
Nancy Ward
 
Cherokee peace warrior
 

Prison Gates of Peace Wall

Dennis Koehn
 
 
Lawrence Templin
 
Mennonite imprisoned during WWII for his CO position
 
Dalai Lama
 
spiritual/political leader of Tibet, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1989
 
Larry Garra
 
Quaker imprisoned during WWII for his CO position
 
Badshah Kan
 
peace advocate between groups in Pakistan
 
Rosa Parks
 
participated in nonviolent civil rights movement in US through Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sybill Arredondo
 
the anthropologist from Chile, imprisoned in Peru as a human rights activist
 

Raul Wallenberg
 

saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, disappeared while in Russian captivity
 
Henry David Thoreau poet/author of Civil Disobedience
 
Elie Wiesel
 
the Nobel Peace Prize winner, author, survivor from Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Glewitz
Nelson Mandela
 
1993 Nobel Peace Prize, 30 years imprisoned for anti-apartheid, South African president


Berlin
Wall of Peace Wall
Constructed in 1961 to separate West Germany from East Germany, the Berlin Wall represented the barrier between the countries of Western Europe and the Communist countries of Eastern Europe and was called the “Iron Curtain” by Winston Churchill, the leader of Great Britain.   The broken section of the wall represents the destruction of the wall in 1989 and preceded many political and economic changes in that area of the world.

Moon Gate of Peace Wall
Visitors are invited to pass through the Moon Gate as a symbolic gesture of refusing to allow walls to separate them from others.  The circular shape of the Moon Gate suggests unity and completeness entering our lives.  At the entrance of the Moon Gate are two shelves on which visitors might leave symbols of those things they want to let go of or leave behind as they pass through.