Artist and educator, Gayle Gale, MFA founded Kids For Peace in 1995 with her deeply-held belief that peace starts within one person, then goes to the home, then to the community, then to the world. She leads the Kids For Peace educational inter-active art workshops where youth and families create individual painted one foot by one foot tiles and postcards for peace.

For more then twenty five years, Gayle has worked as a dedicated artist-citizen in Los Angeles and through out the world, using art to create more unified local communities, all the while affirming peace and unity among all peoples. She raises the environmental, spiritual, and aesthetic awareness of her audiences by using the collective efforts of large groups to create powerful, site-specific public art, meaningful to both the participants and the viewer. She has directed numerous outreach art projects in LA for Sony Pictures, Fox Studios, Hollywood Arts Council, Craft and Folk Art Museum, and has exhibited and taught at numerous educational institutions in LA. With each project, wherever she is, Gayle continues to bring diverse people together using the creative process as a means to transform lives in an effort to form a better world.

Awarded the 2004 Peacemaker Award Honorable Recognition in the Peace Festival Los Angeles at UCLA and the prestigious 2001 FETE d' EXCELLENCE gold medallion for contributions to YOUTH in Geneva, Switzerland. Gayle served as a guest expert on an NGO panel and hosted a special art project for personnel and delegates at the United Nations Palais des Nations. Gayle's education includes receiving a BFA from the University of Arizona; an MFA from Otis Art Institute/Parsons School of Design in Printmaking and Inter-active Media. She also studied at the University of London. From the underground of the MTA in Los Angeles, to the heights of the Peruvian Andes, from the deserts of Israel, to the culture-soaked cities of Spain, whether the Director General of the United Nations in the Palace in Geneva or with the street children of Brazil, Gayle has worked with communities in all parts of the world that vary from Murals to Mask-making to Mixed-media.