Today Marks the Beginning

Art for Darfur, Big Thought and Today Marks the Beginning have collaborated this month to bring a special curriculum to the 5th grade students at Charles Rice Learning Center and L.L. Hothckiss Elementary School. The art will be displayed around Dallas in the following months.

The intent of the project is to teach children how one person can make a difference with a focus on the situation in Darfur, Sudan. The children will participate in the “Great Peacemakers Like You and Me” lesson provided by Today Marks the Beginning, followed by a lesson about the situation in Darfur led by Art for Darfur. After the educational component, there will be four days for the children to do a project titled “If I were a Great Peacemaker,” in which they will creatively communicate how they, too, can be great peacemakers for the people of Darfur.

Culminating the residencies at both schools, the children’s art will be exhibited at the Doolin Gallery at Meadows School of the Arts at SMU as part of a field trip on Friday, January 22. The students will see their art professionally displayed; meet with SMU faculty and staff from Meadows School of the Arts, Meadows Museum and Cox School of Business; tour the campus and talk to students about college preparedness.

In continuation, the art will be displayed during the month of February at the South Dallas Cultural Center. An opening reception on February 5th kicks off the exhibit.