Verona & Roberto Zamora
Project Director
"Peace As A Human Right"

 

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Verona at La Finca Sonador with Guadalupe Urbina, Lucca & Rolando Spendlingwimmer

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Gusein, The Peaceful Warrior in Dagestan

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Quest For Justice is Soon Duk Kim's story. Here she is demonstrating in front of the Japanese Embassy in
San Francisco,

OUR MISSION

To produce and support
socially relevant media, educatonal & artistic projects

We strive to connect digital media with the social fabric of our lives.
We tell compelling stories that have underlying social, spiritual, or cultural value.
We produce and support educational digital media products that contribute
to a deeper understanding of cultural, spiritual and civic involvement in the world.

ABOUT IRIS

Iris Arts & Education Group, a 501(c)3 organization, was founded by Jan Camp in 1992 to be a container for emerging visual artists to show and share their work. In 1997 Verona Fonte became the Executive Director and Chair of the Board of Directors, shifting the focus somewhat, working mainly in the emerging digital media arena to , first, assist young people to become competent visual storytellers using the internet as their distribution vehicle. In the last few years organization has focused on the production of digital medium projects for other nonprofits organization in socially relevant arenas. We donate our services, productions, at times training and software to nonprofit organizations that have something to add in terms of educating, informing or inspiring projects in arenas where heart, head and the public good are aligned.  When approached by funded sources who offer to pay us for our services, we accept, as this is how we maintain our funding. But this is never the basis for our project selection.

Iris support includes organizational consultation, fiscal sponsorship, the production of media, websites and promotional materials that aid an organization’s mission and objectives. These materials range from websites to short movies, posters, postcards to books.

Iris also continues to work with well known artists, creating short films with socially relevant narratives.

In response to the swine flu emergency Iris Arts has offered the comprehensive disaster preparation book "Bird Flu What To Do: Prepare To Survive" and a PDF copy of the updated version "What To Do: Prepare To Survive" both by Verona Fonté to non-profit, religious and community organizations who are interested in creating disaster resistant communities. The organizations need provide only the cost of shipping the books to their location

Iris provides interim fiscal sponsorship for selected projects until they gain their own non-profit status.
2010 Fiscal Sponsorships:

PEACE AS A HUMAN RIGHT PROJECT
Project Director: Roberto Zamora, Costa Rica
This project, headed by Roberto Zamora, seeks to strengthen and develop the concept of Peace as a Human Right by developing coalitions with people and organizations in the international community that embrace principles such as disarmament, gun control, peace as a “human right”, fair trade between nations large and small, the rule of law and access to justice.  It seeks to challenge the practice of perpetual war, the “outsourcing” development of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ to less dominant nations; the impact of the development of these weapons on struggling third world economies and the impact of weapons development and war on the environment and climate change.

“HEIST”
2008 - 2010 Iris provides fiscal sponsorship for the upcoming movie “HEIST” about the collapse of the U.S stock and mortgage market (www.heist.com).

DISASTER PREPARATION
In response to the swine flu emergency Iris Arts has offered the comprehensive disaster preparation book "Bird Flu What To Do: Prepare To Survive" and a PDF copy of the updated version "What To Do: Prepare To Survive" both by Verona Fonté to non-profit, religious and community organizations who are interested in creating disaster resistant communities. The organizations need provide only the cost of shipping the books to their location.

Former Iris Arts projects not included on this website are: Digital Media Literacy & The Altruistic Archetype