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The project brings children to the Alfred Smart Museum on the University of Chicago campus. The children are conducted through the museum by docents bringing the story of the pieces to life. Teaching artists then conduct six one-hour sessions, over six weeks in the classrooms. These sessions use art to bring a message of hope and peace to the children through the art instruction. The children are brought back to the museum, seeing the art with their new eyes and ideas of peace. They are allowed to display their own art in the lobby and their parents are welcome.
We hope to be back in classrooms in the fall. There is concern about our ability to bring the children to the classrooms or teaching artists to the classrooms. The pandemic has caused us to work with the U of C We are currently adapting the curricula to allow virtual visits to the museum and virtual visits by the teaching artists.
This will ultimately allow us to develop a program that is self-contained and able to used in other museums. Peace Art in a box. This is a program which will allow art museum across the globe to use local cultural art into classrooms of children in need in any country with a Rotary Clubs.
The costs to bring the children to the museum twice and six one-hour sessions with lunch after the second visit is $85 to $100 depending on the cost of the busses and art supplies. The U of C is helping to develop the virtual program and the Peace Art in a Box program. We hope to bring up to 10 classrooms, roughly 230 children into the program in the 2022/2023 school year.
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