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Goudy, Chicago School 6th grade Immigration Journey Project window display

6th grade Immigration Journey Project
The Journey’s Travel
Window Artwork Display detail

Sharpie markers on transparency with black construction paper frame

16 in H x 18 in W

2011

All three 6th grade classrooms were reading stories around the theme of immigration, migration and refugee’s journey.
Class two students interpreted and analyzed the artwork Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz, and The Train Station by Walter Ellison, to explore how artists communicated the theme journey.
Each student would create a symbol that represented a part of a journey.
This exact symbol image would then be created in 4 different medias