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Worldwide Peace Marker Project welcomes its newest ambassador

Maria Isabel Alves "Misa" As the WPMP Ambassador to Cape Verde

About Ms.Alves

Painter, sculptor, poetess and activist for the creation of a cultural bridge between Africa and Europe, she was born in Cabo Verde in 1962 between country and urban in Praia, she dreams with the music of the Cabo Verde and the immigration's clouds will take her with in Switzerland where she had lived for 17 years, then she made art school in Ivory Coast where she founds a family.
Back in 1996, she is going to devote herself body and soul to accomplish a bridge in two very distinctive villages. In Porto Madeira (Santiago island), to make a deck of contemporary art, by creating artists residences and by rehabilitating this village, and so make sure that the village can live on country and environmental tourism trough art.
Then in the community of Rabelados where whole job allowed to open up this village and to bring a social art for the promotion of traditional heritage by forming young persons become holders of this ancestral tradition.
She received the Wwsummit fundation prize in Switzerland for the recognition of creativity in rural environment, and took the artists away of this village at the exhibition of Contemporary Art in Spain.
Misa also acquired the first prize of contemporary art in the international competition of Sanremo in Italy for her artistic job.
In March, 2010, she edits the first free newspaper to write the oral world, and to allow so to make more dynamic and to reverse the instructive contents which is to write the official language and that they do not speak, and to live with the oral world which one writes not.
At the same time, she continues her plan of the 6th continent, www.anda.net/portomadeira2008 , invited at the world fair of Shanghai, plan of painting on umbrellas on every island, under the sponsorship of an artist of every continent which will paint with the young persons. A course will be accomplished in August, 2011 for a great platform at the World Art dimension.

Dearest Mrs. Tiite Baquero,

It has been a great pleasure to learn the existence of the Worldwide

Peace Marker Project trough our friend Julie Nedelec, WPMP France.

It would be my great pleasure to represent the Cap Verde Islands as the

artist ambassador for the Worldwide Peace Marker Project.

It will be my honorable mission to represent this beautiful project

of Peace in the location of Porto Maidera, Santiago Island, Cap Verde

I'm waiting with impatience further instructions for the inauguration

of the marker.

With all my dearest respects for this beautiful and grand step towards

World Peace.

Maria Isabel Alves

Ms. Alves Better known as Misa is an artist and a powerful cultural force in her community.

WPMP Ambassador to Cape Verde Maria Isabel Alves "Misa"

Exhibiting at the French Cultural Center in Praia

"CROSSINGS"

The following narrative is Misa as translated from the catalog to the exhibit translated from the French version:

CROSSINGS

It opens our eyes to the horizon appreciate
They opened their arms for a hug
It opens to make room for the
Dimension of the imagination.
And it explains our history who want to attend it with the tenderness of our
heart to hear the heart of another.
This other me crosses a thousand ways and I
the crayon with the colors of the rainbow and I savored the divinely sensuous for the essence of meaning.
I love her in this look that gives
custody and gazes into the unknown!

Tiité

December 7, 2009

Misa's Umbrella project in Cote dIvory and Cape Verde