Events to Remember

Throughout my teaching career, I have had the opportunity at various times to shape young minds using artistic expression as a way to cope with difficult situations, for example, 911.  It is through these difficult situations and creating that students and the community recover, come together, and inner healing begins to take place. My thoughts and discussions found me pondering, after the initial creative response, a deeper look into the art of remembering. Art is created all over the world in remembrance of events, wars, tragedies, ceremonies, and of people. It is through remembering that we tell the story, pass it on to future generations, and share with other cultures. Young children through the arts can help preserve the memory .... I was inspired by artist Paul Cummins and his installation piece Blood Swept Lands and Sea of Red. A moving installation of nearly 900,000 clay poppies encasing the Tower Of London. Each poppy is to represent a fallen soldier during WWI in England. Each night 200 soldiers names were called with the last name spoken on Veterans Day , 2014.