Sheriff Villanueva of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) announced the donation of thousands of weapons confiscated within Los Angeles County to be utilized for the Peace Angels Project. Lin Evola accepted the donation of metal for use in creating a 64 foot Los Angeles Peace monument slated for downtown Los Angeles. .
“The Peace Angels Project USA Weapons Destruction Campaign mission is to remove weapons from our streets and then use the destroyed weapons to create the Los Angeles Peace Angel Monument. A nationwide campaign began last year with an initial metal donation from the LASD and other law enforcement agencies. Thank you to the LASD for their assistance in making the Los Angeles Peace Angel a reality, and helping us to meet our goal of collecting one million weapons. Three monuments are in process for Los Angeles, New York and Silicon Valley/ San Francisco Bay Area,” said Lin Evola.
The weapons include handguns, rifles and automatic weapons collected in criminal investigations, probation seizures and guns turned in by citizens at collection events. Over the past two years in excess of 5 tons of weapons have been donated to the Peace Angles Project by the LASD,
“Through its USA Weapon Destruction Campaign, the Peace Angels Project is reducing the number of firearms in our world by making a national call for the voluntary and permanent destruction of weapons. This call to action is actuated by transforming decommissioned weapons into landmark symbols of peace,” added Lin Evola.
Armaments which once were meant to destroy life are transformed into Peace Angel sculptures of various sizes, including Peace Angel monuments that will rise to heights of more than six stories. The impact of Evola’s work is profound, as is evidenced by her 13-foot Renaissance Peace Angel sculpture which is in the permanent collection of the National September 11 Memorial Museum and has been on display at the Museum since the autumn of 2018.
The Peace Angels Project gratefully acknowledges the support of the following agencies and organizations: Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Los Angeles Superior Court, Police & College Safety-Pasadena City College, United States Department of Homeland Security, and the Bell, Bell Gardens, Beverly Hills, La Verne, Long Beach, Pasadena, San Marino, South Pasadena, and University of California Los Angeles Police Departments.
Contributions to the Peace Angels Project can be made on the website: www.peaceangels.com
About the Peace Angels Project
In 1992, Lin Evola founded the Peace Angels Project to address the epidemic of violence by reminding us of the responsibilities we all share to create a better world. As an American contemporary Artist, Evola created the Peace Angels Project as a conceptual work of art to engage thought that is meant to stir us - to awaken us to rise up and build a life affirming legacy of Peace in our time. The concept that develops into Peace Angel monuments forwards a legacy of peace to our children and future generations.
