Selfographies 05

A close-up of Pamela Beach's piece "Selfographies". / "Working with children as an artistic medium requires careful consideration of crafting an environment where their ideas and identities are respected. Helping them understand their own identity and background is the beginning of respecting others. In this piece, artists created a work that examines the countries our ancestors originated from as a form of realizing the beginning of what we had in common as well as what where we might differ. For a companion piece, we examined physical and personality traits we inhereited, through DNA and environment, from family. This collective piece shows the nuances of individuals that make up community. " Statment from the artist.