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Afghanistan: Guns Into Food
"The rule of the gun is the greatest obstacle to everlasting peace and security in
our country." Mr. Hamid Karzai, the Head of the interim government of Afghanistan.
Guns Into Art (GITA) is committed to obtaining and destroying small arms in war-torn regions before these weapons can be shifted to another conflict. More…
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Guns Into Art
Precita Park memorial bench. Made with 130 melted guns in honor of a young couple gunned down by an unstable relative.
Altar for St. Elizabeth's Church in Oakland CA. Destroyed pistol is a 9 mm Berreta, the same pistol used by the U.S. Military.
Donate your gun or sponsor the destruction of a banned assault rifle and we will transform it into art.
Cycles of Addiction tree grate, designed by recovering drug addicts at Milestones drug rehabilitation center. One gun is destroyed for each grate.
Gun Bakes
Gun Bakes are public events where guns are heated up in a forge to 2500 degrees F and then transformed into art by professional blacksmiths and their teenage apprentices. Often in collaboration with local community groups and/or schools, these events commonly take place at or near the site of a gun-related death and aim to help communities psychologically reclaim parks and schools after the tragedy.
A revolver being destroyed in one of Peacful Streets' forges
Peaceful Streets works with professional blacksmiths to melt down assault weapons and turn them into memorial park benches and/or bicycle racks for parks or schools, as well as candleholders and jewelry.
Creating these lasting fixtures in honor of a victim of gun violence is a way of transforming the negative power of violence into a positive, lasting memory. Hold a Gun Turn-In in your community and the guns you collect and donate to Peaceful Streets will become part of an art piece commemorating a person killed by gunfire.
Blacksmiths pour molten metal to create a memorial park bench
Bicycle rack made with 75 semi-automatic pistols and installed in front of the San Francisco City Hall by a generous donation from the San Francisco Rotary Club.
Guns Into Art works with schools, parks, or individuals to install park benches or bicycle racks. Contact us to find out how to purchase other products, such as candle holders, sculptures, and jewelry.
A Thousand Flowers
When someone donates a revolver to Peaceful Streets, we will organize a group of teens in a high crime area to help destroy, melt, and transform it into a metal flower. This is part of an effort to teach young people blacksmithing and basic metal-working skills while we work towards our goal of creating one thousand flowers in memory of the numerous young people killed by gunfire.