The Museum of Modern Art has installed Yoko Ono’s “Wish Tree” in the Sculpture Garden as part of the new exhibit, Contemporary Art from the Collection. The tree has been drawing attention from a steady stream of museum visitors from all over the world who write their wishes on white paper tags and tie them [...]
When You Wish Upon a Tree at the Hirshhorn by Brandon Springer — Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden for Smithsonian.com Some wish for their mothers. Some wish for their fathers. Some wish for siblings or friends, children or partners. Some wishes are rather rude. Some wishes are earnest and sweet. Yoko Ono’s Washington D.C. Wish [...]
by Raven Jake, Raven Jake’s Observations A couple of years ago, Yoko Ono did one of her art installations in downtown Pasadena. Folks could write wishes on little pieces of paper and tie them to the branches of potted crepe myrtle trees in the plaza of One Colorado. As with most of Yoko’s “pieces,” you’ve [...]
Dear Yoko Ono, My students and I were inspired by your Wish Tree project, and as an end of the year art collaboration project, we decided to create one for our 8th Grade Farewell Ceremony. The students of my 8th grade art class worked together to make over 250 hand painted “wish tags” that were [...]
by Christine Gray (Principal, Oakton Elementary School), Oakton Elementary’s Blog The Wish Tree Project, sponsored by OES Art Teacher, Sarah Brooks, began this week. Students are welcome to write down their wishes and hang them on our wish tree. Our Oakton wishes will be collected on International Peace Day and mailed to the Imagine Peace Tower in [...]
Yoko kicked off John Lennon’s 70th birthday celebration year at the 2010 NAMM Show. Her appearance at the show inspired attendees to submit their wishes of hope and peace at a special Wish Tree set up in front of the Bus during the convention from January 14-17, 2010. Hundreds of wishes were collected and will [...]
The O Ambassadors at Iles, in cooperation with Free the Children and Imagine Peace (Yoko Ono), are creating our Iles Me to We Wish Tree.
Each student traced their hand and wrote their wish for the world. This is a voluntary activity and every student participated! That really shows a commitment to leadership, caring and growth! In February, a team from Free the Children will visit Iles to present an all school assembly and workshops for older students. In April, we will celebrate our O Ambassador activities at our Seventh Annual Iles Writer’s Conference entitled, “Me to We”. Stay tuned for our continuing adventures!
Here are photos of Dalton High School students and the Wish Tree they created. The students were studying Conceptual Art in their Advanced Painting class. The Wish Tree provided a hands on way to learn more about conceptual art and the art of Yoko Ono. It was exciting to study this artist who was such [...]
I was inspired to do a variation of Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree Project with my Humanistic Traditions II class that I teach at the University of Central Florida in Orlando during a unit on 17th Century Japanese arts and culture. Yoko’s message of peace and unity is too important to keep to one’s self, so [...]
Dear Yoko On Thursday night September 17, we had in Mexico City the opening of the HISTORIAS DE AMOR show (Love Stories) with 53 new works selected from the VISIBLE COLLECTION, that will remain until October 16 at Academia de San Carlos. As you already know 45 other works from the collection will remain in exhibition in Asunción (Paraguay) until September 12. You [...]
Dear Yoko, I thought you might like to know that this year for UN Peace Day, September 21,the Roots & Shoots Club (the Jane Goodall Institute’s program for youth) members put together a Peace Wish Forest at our school. I am a teacher and I sponsor the club. The students and faculty enjoyed writing their [...]
Dear Yoko, We wanted to thank you for your contribution with your WISH TREE to the VISIBLE COLLECTION exhibition “Love Stories” now showing at Asunción (Paraguay) at el Centro Cultural de España Juan de Salazar, until October 7th. http://www.juandesalazar.org.py/ Yesterday night was the openning and we invited people to tie their wishes to your Wish [...]
PLANT A WISH TREE FOR EARTH DAY – 22 APRIL 2009 Plant a Wish Tree for Earth Day Or designate a tree as a Wish Tree in your backyard, a park nearby or anywhere that will not inconvenience people in any way. Ask people to put their wishes on it. Give love to the tree every day [...]
I chose to do Yoko Ono’s Wish Piece for a project in my Curatorial Directions class at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). We were to choose an instructional work by any of the artists featured in the Hans Ulrich Obrist “Do It” textbook. This textbook is about the “Do It” exhibition in which artists [...]
YOKO ONO: Wish Tree for Tokyo 9 December 2008 Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree for Tokyo has been planted in the museum’s sculpture garden. It was first on view at the exhibition YES Yoko Ono (Spring 2004 at MOT). The work has been donated by the artist to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo for its permanent collection. Each year on [...]
As part of Enchanted Parks in Saltwell Park, Gateshead, (4-14 December 2008) Yoko Ono will present Wish Trees for Gateshead – where visitors are invited to express their hopes and dreams by writing wishes on paper and hanging them on one of the trees. Wishes from Wish Trees for Gateshead will be gathered at the [...]
Snow in California by Mikihiko Hori Yoko Ono’s participatory art project, “Wish Tree for Pasadena” at the central courtyard of One Colorado in Pasadena, California, which started on August 2nd, ’08, has just ended its display on November 9th, ’08. For “Wish Tree for Pasadena”, 21 living crape myrtle trees (Lagerstroemia) were set up and [...]
Wish Trees for Pasadena Move to their New Home Today Today the crepe myrtles that were part of the Wish Tree for Pasadena installation at One Colorado will be planted at their new, permanent home at Arlington Garden. Dedication is 10:00 A.M. …The trees are being dedicated as a permanent contemplative grove at Arlington Garden in Pasadena. Arlington Garden is a [...]
A huge contemporary art exhibition, entitled “Akasaka Art Flower 08″, was held from September 10th to October 13th, 2008 in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan. (Website). The artwork by many Japanese modern artists was displayed in various places in Akasaka, Tokyo – such as shopping streets, a shrine, at the sites where an elementary school and a [...]
Dear Friends I’d like to inform you about the big Wish Tree that has been built by the dutch artist Wieke Terpstra with the help of Younes El Ouai and Christopher Inees (pupils of the school ‘de Einder’ in The Hague, Netherlands). The Wish Tree is 2.5 meters high and made of steel. It’s painted [...]
