Summary: Students create elongated portraits of themselves with symbols of their past, present, and future.
Description: Side By Side celebrates the unique individuality of each of your students through art as they produce elongated self-portraits on paper approximately 8 x 36 inches. This is a terrific way to start your school year because you will get to know a lot about your students as they create self-portraits that include symbols about their past, present, and future. After your class has created self-portraits, hang them all side by side to represent the way that many individuals can come together to create a better world. Work may be done in crayon (push very hard for rich colors.), cray-pas (oil pastels) or paints of any kind. We invite you to send a selection of up to 10 portraits to our international collection, which will be displayed at several locations throughout the year. These sites will include Miami, Florida, the YouthCan Conference in New York City, and the iEARN annual conference. Selected works will be displayed on an online gallery. Poetry and or paragraphs can be included with artwork.
- Facilitator(s): Rowena_Gerber
- Country: United States
- Facilitator(s): Yvonne_Moyer
- Country: United States
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- Student Age Level: 5-11
- Contributions: When displayed internationally there is a sense of awe in the idea of children coming together for a common cause.
- Outcomes: When displayed Side by Side at your school you will find a sense of enthusiasm and community developing.
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