CHICAGO.- The Loyola University Museum of Art presents the exhibit The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama through January 15, 2007. The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama is an international, multi-media art exhibition and educational event designed to engage people in thinking about, talking about, experiencing and creating peace.

Eighty-eight visual artists from thirty countries have contributed artworks for The Missing Peace amplifying the principles embodied by the Dalai Lama. Featured media include photography, painting, fiber art, animation, sculpture, video and installation.

Organized by the Committee of 100 for Tibet (C100) and The Dalai Lama Foundation (DLF), The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama is a multi-media art exhibition that brings together more than 88 well-respected artists representing 30 countries. The exhibition's goal, to create an international audience for recognizing the urgent need for world peace, is carried out by the celebrated and emerging artists that have been selected because their own work addresses themes related to compassion, peace, unity of all things, impermanence, spirituality, community, people in exile and nonviolence.

The Missing Peace includes painting, sculpture and photography, as well as electronic arts, performance and video. Artists such as Marina Abramovic, El Anatsui, Richard Avedon, Chuck Close, Sylvie Fleury, Mike and Doug Starn, Sebastiao Salgado and Bill Viola are among the artists participating. Additionally, all of the exhibit's works have been donated by the artists and will be auctioned to raise funds for the peace initiatives of the DLF and the C100. The Dalai Lama, who has met with The Missing Peace organizers on several occasions, supports the project and will be lending a work of art from his personal collection as well.

The Loyola University Museum of Art has been selected as one of three United States exhibitors of this exhibition, and as the Chicago host, LUMA is organizing adult and youth educational programs and concerts to coincide with the exhibit. In addition to LUMA, the exhibit will also travel to the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History (June 11-September 10, 2006) and the Rubin Museum of Art in New York (March 2-September 4, 2007).