The Artists' War premiered Monday, January 24th at 10:15pm.

Regret to Inform aired on Monday, January 24th at 9pm.

The mission of art, of poetry,
is not to make peace. Art is peace.
- Seamus Heaney

Six Bay Area artists discuss their work and its relationship to war in the latest Bay Window, The Artists' War. Michael Krasny, host of KQED FM's Forum, spoke with a distinguished panel of artists about their experience of war and the subsequent process of remaking that experience into works of art: from song to paintings to poetry.

You can see the work of one of our panelists on KQED TV9 just prior to The Artists' War: Barbara Sonneborn's Academy Award nominated documentary Regret to Inform. Sonneborn's husband, Jeff, died in the Vietnam War. Out of her grief and the grief of other war widows, both American and Vietnamese, Sonneborn creates a testament to the horrors of war and, at the same time, a resounding call for peace.

The Artists' War provides an opportunity to discover how Sonneborn and her fellow artists transform the devastation of war into their own, often startling, visions of peace.

View a Quicktime Movie of The Artists' War.

Major funding for the production of the Bay Window series is generously provided by THE JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION FOR THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA

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