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Homework Club | Multi-cultural Club | Multi-cultural Mural | Art Class

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Multi-Cultural Club

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Homework Club | Multi-cultural Club | Multi-cultural Mural | Art Class

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Multi-Cultural Mural

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Art Class

Discovering Your Artistic Roots! 7/8th - Here's an art class which combines artistic exploration with cultural awareness. We'll draw and paint using the techniques perfected by Frida Kahol and Faith Ringgold, among others. Everyon can learn to create satisfying art.	Huichol Yarn Paintings The Huichol Indians are from Jalisco and Nayarit in Mexico. They have retained their cultural identity by retelling their stories and myths in paintings made of yarn, wood, and beeswax. Their legends are about heroes and heroines and the different powers of plants and animals.
Molas are brightly colored, intricately designed appliqued fabric panels that are made by Cuna Indian women from the San Blas Islands of Panama. The word "mola" refers to the entire piece of clothing - usually a blouse. Sometimes these images are scenes from everyday life, indigenous plants and animals. Often abstract images are reflected in the designs.

Harold Wright came to visit Kennedy Middle School. He shared his Native American artistic talents with students from Amy Burrows room by teaching an Indian legend through song and dance. (Even Bridgette participated!)

This is an Indian legend about a father and son. The father was jealous of his son so cast a spell on him by putting him in a tree and making the tree grow so high that his son could not climb down. The son grew weak and was near death. The porcupines came along and teased the son by raising their paaws up to the sky and singing a song - knowing that the son could not eat them. Along came the butterfly women and brought the son nectar from the flowers and brought him back to health and back to the earth.