Carl Frederik Reuterswärd was prompted to create his sculpture of a knotted gun entitled "Non-Violence" by the murder of his friend John Lennon. The sculpture pictured below is in Malmö, Sweden, but other versions exist elsewhere in the world, including the United Nations building in NYC.
The Gun Sculpture, by Canadian artists Sandra Bromley and Wallis Kendal, has traveled the world in an effort "to provoke thought and discussion on the culture of violence."
The Peace Art Project Cambodia was an art workshop in Phnom Penh that utilized nearly 900 weapons seized from a Khmer Rouge weapons cache. The Transforming Arms into Tools project in Mozambique creates artwork from weapons exchanged for tools such as sewing machines, hoes, bicycles, and construction materials.
Ken + Dana's GUN collection of jewelry transforms gun components into wearable art that benefits the Bronx Chapter of the Brady Campaign.
Al Farrow creates reliquaries using guns and ammunition to address the relationship between war and faith.
Finally, Francois Robert uses the human skeleton "to plant the notion of restraint and charity in an effort to promote peace and tolerance" in his Stop the Violence series of photographs.
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