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Consensus

An artistic game of ‘Telephone with artists from around the world, including James Taylor, Carly Simon, Jimmy Buffett, and Sam Heydt.

What is Consenses?

Consenses is an artistic game of “Telephone” using every medium of art as a language through which to grow a broader understanding of the world around us.  The nuances of our individual experiences are lost when we use spoken word alone to express ourselves and that more can be revealed working together than fighting for the validity of our singular and limited beliefs. 

Mission:

Consenses is a vehicle for connection, understanding, and peace using art as a lens and a language through which to see ourselves, each other and our world more clearly, compassionately, and expansively.

How It Works:

For the past three years, Consenses’ Founder Sally Taylor, has engaged artists from around the world, of every medium and genre, and brought them together by asking them to interpret one another’s artwork in the vein of a game of “Telephone” and express it in their own medium.

Taylor's talk draws on her founding in 2012 her founding of Consenses, a global, multidisciplinary, artistic collaboration involving 140 artists from around the world. Consenses' mission is to promote tolerance, empathy, creativity and peace by providing art as a language and a lens through which to see ourselves, each other and our world more compassionately and expansively.