20x200 artists Doug and Mike Starn have been invited to create an installation for The Dalai Lama when he visits Aspen next month. I asked Mike Starn to talk a little about how he and Doug came to be involved in the project with Anderson Ranch Arts Center and how the idea for the installation manifested:

The fact that we make those [Buddhist] images and have been involved with Tibetan charities before is probably why we were asked to design the stage for HHDL. He likes to be surrounded by children’s art, so we designed an environment that the kids could make all the work for. It will be about 1200 prayer flags that they have painted and hundreds of snowflakes they have cutout underneath the flags and applied to a mural.

Image courtesy Kelly Cox/Post Independent

From the Glenwood Springs Post Independent:
“The kids are learning to be selfless,” Keohane said. “Which goes in line with what the Dalai is all about. I think that it’s a really great thing for these kids to put their artwork into the world to enhance other people’s lives.”

And how.

Read John Gardner's full article: Local kids make art for the Dalai Lama with Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts project

StarnStudio website

In case you were wondering, tickets for this event are sold out, but there will be a live web cast of the event offered from The Aspen Institute on July 26th.