Our Virtual Art Gallery is a living archive of visionaries reimagining safety. Moving beyond statistics, we focus on the person behind the perspective. Each digital panel is a "visual testimony," shifting us from subjects of history to architects of a peaceful future. Through digital art and animation, creators process emotions, build empathy, and visualize alternatives to violence. This is our collaborative blueprint: proof that what we can imagine, we can create.

Measuring gun violence makes the true scope of harm visible beyond headlines and incomplete police reports. Reliable data (including non-fatal injuries and lived experiences) helps identify patterns, reveal racial and age disparities, and guide support and prevention. Visioning Beyond Violence pairs research with storytelling and art so numbers become human, actionable, and healing because we can’t solve what we can’t see.

“What we can imagine, we can create.” In 2015, artist-activist and educator Cathy DeForest, Ph.D.,  a former high school teacher and a longtime believer in the power of art to heal, sat heartbroken at the rising tide of gun violence in our country. Her mind turned to the AIDS Memorial Quilt and its quiet power to transform sorrow into solidarity. And she asked herself a bold question: Could we create a similar platform for people to envision an end to gun violence, together?

In a time of polarization, the latest 2025 Johns Hopkins National Survey of Gun Policy   reveals a powerful truth: Americans agree on...