by Jennifer | Apr 18, 2017
Created by Evendale Elementary School, Winchester, VA
Fourth Grade Artists: Allison, Liam, Ella
Title: The Key
Teacher: Mrs. Yeager
Theme: Equality
Materials and techniques: Bells, cloth, paper, felt, and yarn.
Did you enjoy this project? Yes! This was a parental guided art work. The students used knowledge from their social studies content to inspire this work of art.
About: African American symbolism and our Virginia fourth grade studies were used to create this art piece.
by Jennifer | Apr 18, 2017
Created by Evendale Elementary School, Winchester, VA
Fourth Grade Artists: Gabrielle, Jaiden, Sofia, Jennifer, Jameson, Delayne, Ashley, Jack (Occupations) Fifth Grade Student Eva sewed doll of mom and child
Title: Dear Child
Teacher: Mrs. Yeager
Theme: Equality
Materials and techniques: Marker, cloth, buttons, yarn, and glue.
Did you enjoy this project? Yes! They were so excited that Harper’s Ferry is so close to us and many children have been there with their families.
About: A mother tells her child of darker skin, “Dear Child, You can be!”
by Jennifer | Apr 13, 2017
Created by Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, MD
Artist: Gabriella
Title: Self Evident Truths
Teacher: Mrs. Stanton
Theme: Freedom
Materials and techniques: Acrylic paint, magazine cut outs, Harper’s Ferry map, and printed images from internet.
Did you enjoy this project? I really loved working on this project because I really loved the message of the contest and the ideas that came with it. It allowed me to take my obsession with detail onto a new level.
About: My artwork is about looking at the common struggles, like oppression and discrimination that African Americans have faced in American history and have prevailed. It’s to contrast the past with the present to work with where we’ve been from which is seen in the tree. The future is what we are all going to. It is a truth that is self-evident, but something that African Americans had to prove. The angels represent that unbreakable spirit, it represents everyone in the same struggles freed through progress. So, it captures moments in African American history where individuals or groups.
by Jennifer | Apr 13, 2017
Created by Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, MD
Artist: Logan
Title: Reaching for Knowledge
Teacher: Mrs. Stanton
Theme: Healing through History: Shackles to Scholars
by Jennifer | Apr 13, 2017
Created by Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, MD
Artist: Gillian
Title: Growing from the Past
Teacher: Mrs. Stanton
Theme: Healing through History: Shackles to Scholars
