It started at Woodstock in 1994. It was the 25th anniversary, and a man by the name of Paul Wislotski from Largo, Florida, knew exactly how to celebrate. Putting up a large canvas, he invited people to join him in decorating and connecting through art.

He said he started with paint, but it was messy. Then moved to canvas, but it was expensive and hard on his oil pastels. So he turned to a simple bedsheet and oil pastels, and the mission was on.

He then started hitchhiking all over the United States to each capitol but decided that his mission should not stop there. Wislotski said he believes that the true start was with the millennials or as he calls them, “The 90-Ohs.”

A Christian missionary traveling across America, Wislotski plans to visit at least two universities in all 50 states, sharing his beliefs through collective art.

“I’m also trying to get the 90-Ohs, which is the 90’s and the 2000’s, to be a great, great generation. I don’t call them millennials,” Wislotski said.

He said the idea is, at the next family reunion, an anniversary or any other get together, to put up a bedsheet, bring out the markers and the oil pastels and invite everyone to draw and create art together for future generations to look back on.

“Create something so that future generations can look back and say, ‘Wow, look what they did,’” Wislotski said, “They (The 90-Ohs) brought the earth together with bedsheets, pastels and art instead of with religion, guns and war.’”

Wislotski believes that in no time after his journey “the 90-Ohs will be starting projects just like this on their own and working to bring everyone together, one family at a time.

“Isn’t it so simple?” Wislotski said.