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Art students participate in Memory Project

Posted on May 21, 2010

Lauralton Art Club students have joined the Memory Project, a nationwide initiative in which art students create original portraits for children living in orphanages around the world.

Since children who have been abandoned, orphaned, abused, or neglected often have few personal keepsakes, the purpose of the portraits is to provide these children with a special memory of their youth, to honor their heritage and identity, and to help them build a positive self-image. The project also provides an opportunity for young Americans to open their hearts to children who have endured many hardships and to promote the value of sharing kindness with others.

Students at Lauralton Hall became involved with this organization as an Art Club project thanks to Teresa Starzecki, ’11 who contacted Ben Schumaker, Memory Project Director, and told him that eight Art Club students were interested in creating portraits for the children. To do this, the students receive pictures of children who are waiting for portraits, and then work in their art classrooms to create the portraits. Once finished, the Memory Project delivers the portraits to the children. The Lauralton students are creating portraits for children living at an orphanage in Peru. After the portraits have been delivered to the orphaned children, the student artists will receive pictures of the children holding their portraits.

The Lauralton Hall Art Club is co-moderated by art teachers Liz Musante and Judith Doherty; club members include Davian Manlapit,’11; Meaghan Knox,’10; Rebecca Mancini,’12; Chloe Walker,’11; Teresa Starzecki,’11; Mary Watson,’11; Emma Molloy,’10; and Catherine Amato,’11.

The Memory Project is a program of the nonprofit organization My Class Cares based in Madison, Wisconsin.  Since the project’s inception in 2004, more than 25,000 portraits have been produced by high school art students around the country. Please click here for more information on the Memory Project.
 

 



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