Artists in Baltimore gathered this week to make kites in recognition of Palestinians in war-torn and besieged Gaza. The event, Kites for Palestine, held at a gallery in the city’s cultural district on Thursday evening, drew around two dozen artists from different disciplines. Using the Palestinian flag colours of green, white, red and black tissue paper with wooden sticks to hold them together, the artists, many of whom had not previously made kites, got to work making different variations in honour of Palestinians in Gaza. Though most of the kites were based on the Palestinian flag, some were…