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Global Arts Projects
Global Arts Projects
have a strong tradition in iEARN, with art being a theme threaded throughout
many of the various projects of the network. At the iEARN
international conference in 1998, a group of dedicated teachers who
were experienced in using communications technology to enhance their students
learning and who believed that art provided opportunities to overcome
any issues of language on the internet, met and formed the voluntary project
team, "Painting
the Planet." The original team represented students in schools
in Australia, USA, Uganda and Siberia. All team members are currently
involved in coordinating international Global Art Projects on a range
of themes. They invite participation from new schools and offer advice
and assistance to teachers new to the process within the iEARN online
project conference iearn.globlart.
A gallery of
Romanian student art in this project is now on the WWW. Among the
Global Arts Projects are:
A
Sense of Caring. The purpose of this global art project theme is to
provide the opportunity for children around the world to exchange artwork
accompanied by writing on the theme of " A Sense of Caring".
Each participating school of students will create artworks that portray
ways that we presently care for one another within our schools, families,
communities and world as well as ways we find and hope to care more. Previous
Global Art Projects on the themes "A
Sense of Family", "A Sense of Habitat", and "A
Sense of Peacefulness" have provided meaningful opportunities for
children around the world to learn about their commonalities and diversities
within these themes. By particiapting in the processes of creating and
exchanging artwork and writing to share and respond to globally, the children
develop their literacy, world languages, and visual arts skills for positive,
meaningful purposes of being able to communicate with peers around the
world across the breadth and depth of our cultural experiences and languages.
Participation is most successful when the number of schools is kept small
so each school can e-mail to the others acknowledgement of their receipt
of artwork and students can e-mail responses to the artwork to one another.
The suggested number of schools is between 4 and 8.
Faces
of War. This is an ongoing cross curriculum project that looks at
the lives of ordinary people around the globe thrown into traumatic circumstances.
The project examines four main groups, refugees, holocaust survivors,
loved ones at home and veterans of war. Each year a number of themes are
put up for student exhibitions of art work.
Side by
Side. Celebrate through art the unique individuality of each of your
students as they produce their elogated self-portrait 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 each student as they create their portraits
and include symbols about their past, present and future. Then hang the
portraits side by side to represent how many individuals can come together
to create a better world. Work my be done in crayon, cray-pas (oil pastels)
or paints of any kind." Side by Side is a global project and 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
include Miami, Florida, YouthCan 2000 in New York City and iEARN in Bejing,
China 2000. Selected works will be displayed on an on-line gallery. Poetry
and or paragraphs can be included with art work.
Beauty
of the Beasts. Join the celebration of nature through the eyes of
elementary students from around the world. "Beauty of the Beasts"
is a global project inviting children to capture the grandeur and magnificence
of animals indigenous to their areas through original artwork and poetry.
The students' work will be compiled into a worldwide exhibit, and displayed
at numerous locations including the American Museum of Natural History,
NYC, in the spring of 1999, and in San Juan, Puerto Rico, summer, 1999.
Selected works will also be displayed in a global online gallery.
Colouring
Our Culture. Working in conjunction with iEARN, Mengo Senior School
in Uganda, AUSTCARE, the Department of Education and the Multicultural
Commission, the project has the potential of reaching broadly out into
the community through both the classroom and organisational structures.
Schools in Thailand, Kenya and Pakistan have been contacted with assistance
from AUSTCARE. Students will be invited to select from a range of associated
topics and themes. For those to be submitted by June 30, 1999, these include
the following themes: 1) We CAN all live together. 2) I am a refugee.
3) 'There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one's native
land' Euripides,431 B.C. 4) Pizza, Pies, and popcorn: Variety is the spice
of life. A selection of work will be exchanged with international schools
involved in the project and students will have an opportunity email their
responses directly to the other artists.
Folks Tales around the World, is
a project involving schools in Argentina, Australia, the Czech Republic,
Ghana, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Slovakia,
and the USA. The idea is to study Global Community and Cultural Diversity
through Folk tales. Modern kids all over the would do really know "Three
little Piglets", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Cinderella".
And unfortunately they know little about folk tales of their own country.
And they know nothing about folk tales in other countries. We invite you
to introduce your folk tales and to take acquaintance with the iEARN countries'
folk tales.
'Super
Hero' Comic/Cartoon Project. Students develop and create their own
cartoon or comic strip that relates to a character of 'Super Hero' status.
Students produce work that is funny, satirical, serious, political sketch,
but all focusing on the hero doing something good. For example, superheroes
may be cleaning the polluted rivers, fighting crime or saving the rain
forests.
In addition to the
projects on iearn.globlart,
there exists the
- PEACE MURAL 2000.
Our world is torn apart by wars, racial and ethnic persecution, religious
intolerance, gender oppression, violence, child labor and other economic
exploitation, hate speech, and many other dehumanizing problems. The
goal of iEARN is to provide opportunities for students and educators
around the globe to collaborate in creating a better planet for all.
The PEACE MURAL 2000 project will encourage our students, through
art and writing, to propose and demonstrate peaceful solutions to
the world's problems. Students also will be encouraged to take personal
peaceful actions to help heal the suffering they see. Students will
create individual artwork and/or writing on paper no larger than 9
inches X 12 inches or 23 cm X 31 cm (they can be smaller.) The student
work is to be sent by email or email attachment or regular mail no
later than 15 April, 2000, to A:shiwi Elementary School, where students
will connect it to the PEACE MURAL 2000. PEACE MURAL 2000 will be
displayed at the iEARN International Conference in Beijing, China
next July. After the conference in Beijing, the mural will be available
for display at other locations. See iearn.projects.
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- Indigenous
Global Art Project, a project involving indigenous youth in various
countries, and taking place as part of the
iEARN First Peoples' Project within the online conference iearn.fp.
Students from indigenous groups in the USA, Thailand, South Africa,
Argentina and Australia are currently involved.
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- K*AID,
a project of Kosovar youth in Albania to share artwork and writing.
Participants are writing their own stories about the things that they
have seen in Kosovo, and are also drawing and painting pictures to
share. At the end of the project the group hopes to publish a book
and WWW site. Messages of the project are posted to iearn.violence.
Languages: All. Students write in their own languages. The receiving
schools are responsible for translating using community volunteers or
other local resources.
Contact: For more information about participating in these or other
iEARN projects, write to iEARN@us.iEARN.org.
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