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Bits and Peaces

October 15, 2021 by johnnoltner

It has been a busy fall! Here’s a little mid-month recap on what’s going on in our world and what comes next. Supply Chain We have spent the last two weeks north of Seattle waiting on some repair parts for our trailer. Everything is functional but the last two parts are delayed by some covid supply chain issues, so we have hunkered down at an RV park between the sea and the mountains to catch up on some editing and […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: a peace of my mind, culture, documentary, justice, learning, lifestyle, listening, rv, society, storytelling, travel, update

Book illustrations

September 23, 2021 by johnnoltner

The gallery below is meant to supplement the story you will find in Portraits of Peace: Searching for Hope in a Divided America. The book is available now, anywhere you love to buy books. Enjoy.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: book, broadleaf, culture, faith, healing, justice, memoir, peace, Portraits of Peace, race, self-help, social justice, society, travel

Book Release!

July 10, 2021 by johnnoltner

So it’s never really done. There’s always something more that you can do. But that’s sort of the story of life, isn’t it?

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: activism, art, book release, books, justice, new book, peace, society, solutions, storytelling, travel, writing

April 20, 2021 by johnnoltner

It stopped me in my tracks. On Sunday, we visited the Peace and Justice Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. It pays tribute to the 4,000 plus Black people who were lynched in America during a campaign of racial violence that has changed over time, but never really ended. Above your head as you walk through the memorial, large steel beams are suspended, engraved with the names of the victims and the county in which they were lynched. Along the walls are […]

Categories: Blog • Tags: blm, George Floyd, justice, Minneapolis

Grief

April 18, 2021 by johnnoltner

My heart is heavy. It’s the news. It’s the trial in our home town for the death of George Floyd. It’s Daunte Wright. It’s Atlanta. Kenosha. Indianapolis. It’s gathering stories under the shadow of a Confederate statue. It’s visiting lynching sites. But it’s more than that. It’s how quickly each event is spun and re-spun, then spun again. It’s how animosity instantly takes root in the space compassion should claim. It’s how tragedies are weaponized and turned on the victims. […]

Categories: Blog • Tags: civil rights, EJI, grief, justice, Montgomery, peace, Selma

Will Snowden

March 6, 2021 by johnnoltner

Will Snowden received his law degree from Seton Hall Law School in New Jersey and worked as a public defender in New Orleans. Through his work in the justice system, he became concerned with weaknesses in our jury system that led to a lack of diversity in jury members and ultimately, unjust outcomes. In response, Will established The Juror Project, whose mission is “to change the makeup of juries to better represent the American population and the communities most commonly […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: a peace of my mind, juror, jury, justice, justice system, New Orleans, prison, prisoner, social issues, social justice, storytelling, Vera

20,000 miles

March 4, 2021 by johnnoltner

20,000 miles. That’s how far we’ve driven since October to explore issues, listen to stories, and imagine new possibilities. All with our trailer / house in tow. We’ve stayed at state parks, horse ranches, RV campgrounds, and the back corners of distillery parking lots. We’ve met artists and activists, politicians and programmers, veterans and veterinarians. It’s true that our country is divided in many ways. Turn on the television and it doesn’t take long for both the rhetoric and your […]

Categories: Blog • Tags: America, dialogue, healing, justice, listen, peace, storytelling, travel, weavingcommunity

Both sides

January 21, 2021 by johnnoltner

The day didn’t go quite the way we had planned. I was with India Aubry of Voices from the Border and we were crossing into Nogales, Sonora, Mexico to interview Pancho, a street nurse who cares for migrants waiting south of the border for asylum hearings. We had directions and our plan was to meet Pancho at one of the migrant shelters to see his work and meet with some of the travelers. We drove through the Mariposa crossing on […]

Categories: Blog • Tags: a peace of my mind, asylum, border, border patrol, border wall, immigration, justice, mexico, migrants, nogales, separation, sonora, storytelling, weaving community

This is my why

June 20, 2020 by johnnoltner

It’s hard to wait for the sun to go down when you are setting up your first public art projection. In Minneapolis on June 19, the sun sets at 9:03pm. But at 9:03 there was still so much ambient light in the sky that I could barely make out an image on the wall. At 9:10, Lance from Channel 5 news showed up with a camera and I wished I could will the earth to spin just a little bit […]

Categories: Blog • Tags: George Floyd, John Noltner, justice, Minneapolis, peace, photographer, projection, public art, storytelling

Maybe this time

June 3, 2020 by johnnoltner

On Monday May 25, George Floyd was killed by police at the intersection of 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis. Because the COVID-9 pandemic had caused all my programming to be cancelled, I happened to be at home, 11.6 miles to the south. On Wednesday I went to see the site where a small memorial was taking shape and on Thursday returned with an improvised portable studio, a broken heart, and one simple question: “What do you want to say?” Over […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: a peace of my mind, Black Lives Matter, blm, change, George Floyd, justice, Minneapolis, photography, protest, race

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A Peace of My Mind

Building community and bridging divides through portraits and personal stories.

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