CARAVAN is an international arts NGO/non-profit that is recognized as a leader in using the arts to further our global quest for a more harmonious future, both with each other and with the earth. We believe that the arts can be one of the most effective mediums to heal our world and to creatively foster peace, harmony, wholeness and health in all its forms. CARAVAN’s artistic initiatives have resulted in unprecedented partnerships with renowned and emerging artists from around the globe, using art to transform our world.

 

Our name "CARAVAN" comes out of our founding vision to encourage and facilitate those from diverse backgrounds and worldviews to see and experience each other differently, reframing assumptions and perceptions of the "other," by “journeying together through the arts.” CARAVAN’s experience demonstrates that the arts can be one of the most strategic approaches to enhance understanding, bring about respect, enable sharing, and deepen relationships between diverse peoples, cultures and spiritual traditions. CARAVAN also explores and nurtures the relationship between spirituality and the arts, toward enhancing our experience and understanding of each other and the transcendent.

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Our Journey: CARAVAN originated out of artistic bridge-building initiatives in Cairo, Egypt beginning in 2009 that focused on addressing the growing chasm of discord and misunderstanding at that time between the peoples, cultures and faiths of the Middle East and the West.

 

Today we focus primarily on contemporary artists that are Middle Eastern/North African, Indigenous (i.e. Native American) and Black (African and African Diaspora), as well as on using the arts to build bridges between those from different cultures, ethnicities and spiritual traditions. 

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