Traveling Exhibition: Host Locations
Updated 5/7/2026
The exhibition Children Draw War, Not Flowers features artwork created by Ukrainian children (ages 6–16) in August 2022, six months into the Russo-Ukrainian war. The drawings emerged from art therapy sessions organized by public libraries in the Cherkasy region of central Ukraine. In total, 450 works were created and digitized on the Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) website .
The traveling collection includes nearly 60 original artworks, along with a companion zine of war poetry by Ukrainian children. Programming has included public and classroom lectures by curator and co-organizer Ulia Gosart on the impact of war on civilians, art therapy, and librarianship during wartime, as well as documentary film screenings on contemporary Ukraine.
The exhibition's significance was recognized by the Art Libraries Society of North America: “the traveling exhibition creates an important pedagogical space, allowing students to engage meaningfully with life under wartime conditions and to reflect on the healing and communicative power of art and storytelling.” (O. Aleksic, reviewer of the LER Magazine)
There is no fee to host the exhibition beyond local installation labor and shipping costs to the next venue (currently scheduled to travel to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in March 2027).
If your institution or organization is interested in hosting Children Draw Flowers, Not War, please contact us at connectlupai@gmail.com
Let Ukraine Flourish, by Zlata, age 10: "Our defenders will win. Ukraine will flourish and become a European country."