The last two years Jefferson School classes participated in a program called 'Hands Across the Americas. This includes making quilts for orphans and street children in Bolivia. Click HERE for an overview of 99-2000 Bolivia Quilt Project. Hands Across the Americas a four part project. Social responsibility and world ethics workshops with elementary school children.
Workshops are two hours long.
The workshop involves discussion about heritage, wealth and human values. Children look at their own culture through the examination of another culture. The children are asked to join me in becoming a humanitarian artists by drawing their portrait or something of their life on cloth. These portraits begin a visual dialog with orphaned children in South America. The cloth pieces are then given to the community surrounding the children.