Diana Kay Oestreich
is an author, artist, & veteran who doesn’t talk about peace—she puts it to the fire and makes it real.
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Weapons that once tore through communities are reforged by hand into something that feeds them. This is what it meansto wage peace. Chopping up guns and turning them into garden tools puts the prophetic call of turning swords into ploughshares into your hands.
This is an invitation: to step into the fire, to remake what we’ve inherited, and to become collaborators of a future fueled by Peace instead of war. Diana’s art gives voice to the stories we carry—stories of harm, survival, and the courage to change.
It asks this question: Are we brave enough to believe in the power of peace?
Rooted in lived experience, her work centers people-powered acts of repair—where justice is practiced, and joy persists alongside grief. Fire, force, and labor are not erased but redirected. The forge becomes a site of reckoning and possibility.
Diana’s work asks what it means to disarm violence not only in our hands, but in our stories, our systems, and ourselves. It invites participation in the ongoing work of unmaking and remaking—of relearning how to turn toward one another and sparking imagination to create a future with more justice and joy.
22 one-of-a-kind pieces. Released on the 22nd of every month.
Forged from guns, each piece carries a story of harm, survival, and the courage to change.
Through the heat of the forge:
Guns become garden tools.
Weapons become works of art.
This is our invitation to remake what we’ve inherited & become collaborators in a future fueled by peace instead of war.
More gardens. Less guns.
Find out where the Forge will be next!
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