About Alana Lea

Alana Lea is the host of the Peace Portal Channel. She began her commitment as a Peace Artist in 1985. Bridging diverse worlds through celebrations of unity, she began DanSing Peace with groups including: the Oregon Multicultural Education Association, Oregon School for the Deaf, Linfield College, the Earth Spirit Council, the Findhorn Foundation, the Columbia River Correctional Institution, St. Mark's Cathedral, the Living Enrichment Center and the National Conference for Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution. She was a member of the Mentor Teachers Guild for PeaceWorks International Center for the Dances of Universal Peace, and is a presenter of Peace Through Art exhibits and events, in association with Shalem Center in Columbus, Ohio.

An illustrator by trade, her botanical watercolors and digital collages have been published in numerous books as well as exhibited at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution's Horticultural Exhibit with the US Botanic Garden, and the Museum of Natural History Gift Shop.

Alana's digital collages have also been exhibited as fabric fine art banners at the Peace Alliance Conferences at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel and Reagan Center in Washington, D.C., and the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia; Rumi Society public events at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Public Library; a synagogue in Rosh-Pina, northern Israel and public events in Sao Paulo, Brazil to commemorate the International Day of Peace.

With the participation of artists Deborah Koff-Chapin and Barbara Helen Berger, she launched a line of Peace Art eCards in 2004 to support the peace candidate during the election cycle, which eventually grew into PeaceArtCards.com.

The cover art for her illustrated prayer book 'Illuminated Peace' was included in DESERT GENERATION - an Exhibit of Palestinian and Israeli artists who oppose the occupation, that has been shown at the Jerusalem Artist's House, the Ha’Kibbutz Art Gallery in Tel Aviv, ending in Amsterdam at the Meneer de Wit Gallery under the auspices of two NGO groups, "Another Jewish Voice" and "United Civilians for Peace."

Her fabric peace art banners have also been shown at the Imagine Peace Festival in Amenia, New York; the Rachel Corrie Foundation Peaceworks Conference in Olympia, Washington; Holly Near Peace Concert and the Spiritual Activism Conference in Seattle, Washington; the second People's Summit for Departments of Peace in Victoria and the World Peace Forum and Chantfest 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia; the Celebration of Oneness and Humanity Unites Brilliance events in southern California.

In 2007 she opened the Peace Portal Social Network to create a community of spiritually, creatively, politically awakened friends, and to encourage one another to use walk the talk more actively.

In 2008 Alana became a founding angel of HUB - Humanity Unites Brilliance and in collaboration with Jody Colvard, founder of the FMG Network, created the Peace Portal Channel within FMG TV, where they highlight Peace news, emerging from the grassroots to the temples to the boardrooms of the planet.

She's currently seeking sponsorship for a global touring exhibit of Belgian tapestries: When "I" and "You" Vanish, illustrating the heart teachings that unite all paths.