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Monuments and Memorials
Memory
• Creating a monument or memorial gives us the opportunity to think about WHO and WHAT should be remembered and WHY that continues to be important.
Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013
Monuments and Memorials are an important part of many Facing History units. For an online module with additional resources, go to:
Facinghistory.org/memorials
Student Samples
Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013
Projects which followed an extensive research project about an event, group, or individual
Your memorial is a visual statement using symbolic imagery relating to your research
paper.
Brown v. Board of Education—
Integration of Public Schools
Little Rock Nine—
Integration of Little Rock High
Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013
Your memorial may be 2 or 3 dimensional but may not exceed 18” in any direction.
Two examples of same topic, “Lost Boys of Sudan.”
2 dimensional 3 dimensional
Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013
OUR TASK: use various three-dimensional objects to create a monument to a person or idea of our choosing.
Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013
Our Monuments
Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013
Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013
Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013
Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013
Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013
Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013
“Facing History and Ourselves made me realize that my
choices matter. When I am indifferent, the world loses and I lose. The world needs me to act. And if my choices matter, then I matter. That’s a very important lesson to learn as a child and to
own as an adult.”
Facing History Alumnus