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PHS art students send message of hope
09 April 2008 — PHS advanced art students participated in the 2007-2008 national Memory Project, a unique initiative in which art students create original portraits for children who have been abandoned, orphaned, abused, or neglected. These children have very few personal keepsakes so the purpose of the portraits is to provide them with a special memory of their youth, to honor their heritage and identity, and to help them build a positive selfimage. The infants, children, and teens for whom portraits are painted all live in the homes of Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos. To do this project, the art students receive pictures of children who are in orphanages in foreign countries and then begin work in their art classrooms to create the portraits. Once finished, the portraits are sent to the children and the children then can correspond with the art students in America. This is an opportunity to open the student's heart to a child who has endured many hardships, and to share kindness with another. These artworks create a meaningful exchange of artistic expression between young people across international boundaries. The Memory Project started in 2004 and over 11,000 portraits have already been distributed to children in Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti, the Caribbean, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Peru, Bolivia, and Nepal. A CBS feature story with Katie Couric in 2006 about the project is how Mrs. Judy Boyette, PHS Visual Arts teacher, found out about the project and wrote and received a Johnston County Education Foundation Special Focus Grant to complete it. Children's immediate reactions to the portraits may vary but the PHS art students who participated are looking forward to hearing from the subjects of their artworks. Mrs. Boyette explained that the art students selected their child to paint, followed the guidelines set out by the Memory Project staff, and painted the portrait to make the child look happy and give them motivation. The backgrounds of the artworks could be created by the artist so each one has something unique or different to inspire the child. Dezzy Wood wrote on hers "Reach for the Stars," and Lauren Cook put words of encouragement on hers. Mandi Smith painted a peace sign on hers and Casey Spencer put Aztec symbols around her subject. The orphanage where the children live that were painted by the PHS students is in Miacatian, 77 miles south of Mexico City. It was an old, converted sugar plantation and now serves approximately 1000 children.
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