Monuments and Memorials

Memory

• Creating a monument or memorial gives us the opportunity to think about WHO and WHAT should be remembered and WHY that continues to be important.

Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013

Monuments and Memorials are an important part of many Facing History units. For an online module with additional resources, go to:

Facinghistory.org/memorials

Student Samples

Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013

Projects which followed an extensive research project about an event, group, or individual

Your memorial is a visual statement using symbolic imagery relating to your research

paper.

Brown v. Board of Education—

Integration of Public Schools

Little Rock Nine—

Integration of Little Rock High

Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013

Your memorial may be 2 or 3 dimensional but may not exceed 18” in any direction.

Two examples of same topic, “Lost Boys of Sudan.”

2 dimensional 3 dimensional

Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013

OUR TASK: use various three-dimensional objects to create a monument to a person or idea of our choosing.

Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013

Our Monuments

Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013

Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013

Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013

Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013

Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013

Art and Facing History workshop, June 2013

“Facing History and Ourselves made me realize that my

choices matter. When I am indifferent, the world loses and I lose. The world needs me to act. And if my choices matter, then I matter. That’s a very important lesson to learn as a child and to

own as an adult.”

Facing History Alumnus