Summary: Art Miles: Students create murals to establish the Guinness Book of World Records for the Longest Children's Mural in the World. MUSAIC: Originally Composed Music by Youth from around the world.
Description:
Art Miles: 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, a new MUSAIC Project will be working with Art Miles in 2009-1010: Originally Composed Music by Youth from around the world WHO will participate in a fun, sustainable on-going education program and the creative collective building of an International Virtual Youth Orchestra and invited to submit 30 second to 3 minute MP3 files of all genres of ORIGINAL music of their choice, instrumental and vocals. The project provides youth from diverse regions of the world with the opportunity to use music as the expression of a common vision of peace and unity by bringing music teachers, students, aspiring professional musicians, and celebrity musicians together who will collaboratively compose, record, and perform original pieces of music, forming an international virtual and live youth orchestra, inspired and based on an Art Miles Mural of their choice. The selected mural image must accompany the submission of the musical piece. Mobilize existing collaborative contacts with IEARN, Musician's Workshop, educational institutions, and other partners and supporters of AMMP to locate young musicians from all regions of the world and invite them to submit simple, original pieces of music that express their own cultural identity and visions of peace and unity. Distribute these to other participants in other regions who will then create additional parts to these compositions, resulting in pieces that contain influences from multiple places and cultures.
- Facilitator(s): Joanne_Tawfilis
- Country: United States
- 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:
Art Miles: 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.
MUSAIC Project: In participants' regions, as well as in cities where major AMMP events are scheduled to take place, additional youth musicians can be recruited to learn and rehearse these multi-cultural compositions for performance and/or recording. Youth performers, conductors, teachers, sponsors, will work together to create performance workshops and rehearsals around finished pieces. Selected materials will be used for performances; recordings/transcriptions of work in performance workshops. Participants selections will be recorded and performed in international settings, and in on line and live concerts.
- Related Links:
http://www.the-art-miles-mural-project.org/
http://www.artmile.jp
http://himeji.artmile.jp/
http://connect.scdsb.on.ca/artmiles2008/
MUSAIC PROJECT WEBSITE