Summary: Students create murals to establish the Guinness Book of World Records for the Longest Children's Mural in the World.
Description:
Students, schools, organizations, after school program participants, design and create murals that will be grommeted and seamed together with murals created by children from all over the world. There are twelve themes involved in the project; The Multicultural/Diversity Mile, The Environmental Mile, and The Indigenous People's Mile, Sports Mile, Women's Mile, Fairy Tale Mile, Hollywood Mile, Music Mile, Senior Mile, Peace, Unity and Healing Mile, Mentor's Mile. Children should work together to decide on what theme they want to work on. It is important to let them know that this mural will go on tour in museums and their work will be seen in many countries, on websites, on TV, and in the future in publications and magazines. Focus and concentration on the theme is one of the great team building parts of the mural. This project is about the PROCESS, not so much of the art and the number of murals. Therefore, groups should have a lively discussion about what they want to do as a group. Teachers/coaches should encourage them to thing BIG because the canvas is large and murals should be able to be seen from a distance.
In addition, in 2008-2009, the project will include an International Intercultural Mural Exchange Project: Participants exchange their knowledge and opinions on a common theme through internet, discuss what and how each side will draw and finally create one mural in collaboration by drawing half by half. Creating a mural is a process of collaboration and created mural is a proof of coexistence, which will lead to global harmony and peace.
- Facilitator(s): Joanne_Tawfilis
- Country: United States
- Facilitator(s): Mali_Bickley
- Country: Canada
- Facilitator(s): Atsuko_Shiwaku
- Country: Japan
- Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish
- Student Age Level: 5-11, 12-14, 15-18
- Contributions: brings children closer together, promotes communication, understanding and respect, recognizes and celebrates diversity, heightens and strengthens environmental consciousness, can be created anywhere and shared, diversity, indigenous people, health and sports and a lot of FUN.
- Outcomes: Extreme pride, team building, a visual documentation of their understanding and awareness of a variety of topics ranging from environment, peace, human interaction, culture, diversity, use of color and design, the feeling of being a part of a truly global project, sharing, helping each other, learning from one another, publication of their work through a wide range of media, and communicating their "messages" to the world.
- Related Links:
http://www.the-art-miles-mural-project.org/
http://www.artmile.jp
http://himeji.artmile.jp/
http://connect.scdsb.on.ca/artmiles2008/