Art, equity & identity
Channel: The Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education
Date: 2020-06-25

How do you teach students about equity, identity and bias? At Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, in South Burlington VT, these students used Teaching Tolerance.org's identity and bias resources to prepare to make art. Working with local community artists on visual collage, storytelling and slam poetry, the students used such Teaching Tolerance materials as The Cultural Iceberg, The Pyramid of Hate, and The Danger of A Single Story to create art reflecting on their own identity. Along the way, they learned a ton about intersectional bias and identity.

Given these tools, the students took the lead on educating themselves, learning from their peers, and presenting their art to the community. These are topics your students need to talk about, learning the vocabulary to describe their identities and push back on inequity. 

Thank you to Tuttle educator Christie Nold, teaching artists Rajnii Eddins, Max Jennings and Allison Treston, and professional development coordinator Life LeGeros for their generosity in helping us produce this video. 

For more information about this unit: https://tiie.w3.uvm.edu/blog/equity-identity-art/#.XvThPJNKhSM



Music: "Frame" by artist KV, via Audio Library. Used with permission.