Command and General Staff College Foundation News Fall 2017 - 24

FEATURE

PHOTOS BY MARK H. WIGGINS

Col. Chris Croft, left, director for the
Center for Army Leadership at Fort
Leavenworth, moderates the leadership
panel inside the Art of War: Gifts
of Peace exhibit at The Box Gallery
in Kansas City June 22.- For panel
member info visit the full story on
www.theartofwarinitiative.org.

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A couple views the art objects on display
during opening night of the Art of War:
Gifts of Peace exhibit entitled "Truth and
Art."

Foundation continues exhibits,
activities for "Art of War Initiative"
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A dagger on display in the Art of War exhibit
entitled "Truth and Art" at the Johnson County
Central Resource Library. - The gifting country and
year that it was presented to CGSC are unknown.

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by Mark H. Wiggins, Managing Editor
Since the previous edition of the Foundation News,
CGSC Foundation with support from the Todd Weiner
Gallery in Kansas City has hosted several events as part of
"The Art of War Initiative" in the Kansas City area.
From June 8 through July 28, objects from the CGSC art
and gift collection were on display at The Box Gallery in
downtown Kansas City. The gallery first hosted a reception
on June 2 to kick off the exhibit, then on June 22, the Gallery
along with the CGSC Foundation and the Todd Weiner
Gallery, conducted a leadership panel discussion inside the
gallery's exhibit hall. The panel discussion was intended to
bring attention to the art exhibit and the relationship of the art
to the development of leaders at CGSC. Col. Chris Croft from
the Center for Army Leadership on Fort Leavenworth was the
moderator for the panel.
The next month the Box Gallery hosted a poetry reading in
the exhibit hall featuring Vietnam veteran poets.
From Sept. 5 through Nov. 30, another exhibit from the
art and gift collection was on display at the Johnson County
Library's Central Resource Library. Themed "Truth and
the

Art," this exhibit was comprised of undocumented items from
the CGSC art and gift collection and members of the public
were invited to submit their thoughts on some of the items
origin and identity. On the first night of the exhibit, Dr. Jim
Willbanks, CGSC's General of the Army George C. Marshall
Chair of Military History, provided a special presentation on
"Truth and Vietnam."
The next "Art of War: Gifts of Peace" exhibit is tentatively
scheduled for May-June 2018 at the Jewish Community
Center part in Overland Park, Kansas.
The CGSC Foundation has undertaken the "Art of War
Initiative" to preserve, promote, and protect the life and
longevity of the CGSC art and gift collection, which comprises
more than 3,800 items. Until the "Art of War Initiative" began
in summer 2016 with a partnership between the CGSC
Foundation and the Todd Weiner Gallery, the general public
has never truly had an opportunity to see this collection.
The CGSC Foundation is actively seeking financial
supporters for the initiative and thanks you in advance for
any support you can provide.

For more information or to donate visit www.theartofwarinitiative.org.

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