This week I am working at Glenwood Elementary in Chapel Hill with 4th grade. This residency is sponsored by the Town of Chapel Hill, and I was selected out of several applicants to create a project based on immigration of different cultures into NC. Using migrating birds as symbols for this main idea, students are designing their own bird with colors and symbols that connect with their family history or a historical group that settled in North Carolina. We talked about why people immigrate from one area to another, as well as the things that make up culture and how it can be represented by colors and symbols.
This is a wonderfully diverse school and the students have made some fantastic design choices. First they planned it out on paper.
Today they began to choose and lay out their selected pieces (precut and tumbled stained glass) and then could start to glue each piece. A few students finished, but the majority will finish up tomorrow. I will grout them, and they will be installed hanging in V formation in their hallway between the cafeteria and exterior bank of windows. This hallway has windows on both sides, plenty of natural light, 15 ft ceilings, and every student travels that hall every day. It is truly a gift to me to be able to do this work that I love.
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