Recently Art teacher Patty Kaminski received a gift from the Philippines: a video of her Memory Project work with her art students in Paterson, NJ!
This video depicts an Arts Integration project that recently took place at the Don Bosco Technical Academy in Paterson, NJ under the auspices of the Geraldine R. Dodge Arts Integration Grant. Middle school students and art teacher Patty Kaminski were supported by grant-funded Art Professor in Residence Triada Samaras from William Paterson University COE to create a collaboration between children in Paterson and children in the Philippines incorporating: social studies, world language, and portraiture via the Memory Project.
The culmination is this inspiring video created by the Memory Project.
"The Memory Project is a nonprofit and charitable organization that invites art teachers and their students to create and donate portraits to children around the world who have faced substantial challenges such as violence, disasters, extreme poverty, neglect and loss of parents. We want the portraits to help the children feel valued and important, to know that many people care about their well being, and to act as meaningful pieces of personal history in the future." (Memory Project)
An earlier blog posted here featured this project at its inception at Don Bosco school last fall. This is the first year that Don Bosco has been included in the influential Dodge grant.
In addition this project was featured in the Paterson Post recently!
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