Last year’s KS Maui eigth grade Mixed Media Class participated in an international service-learning project known as the Memory Project. The Memory Project is a non-profit organization that invites art teachers and their students to create portraits for youth around the world who have faced substantial challenges, such as neglect, abuse, loss of parents, and extreme poverty. The intent is for students to learn about these global issues by creating a portrait of individual children from around the world, in the hope that their work will help these children feel loved and cared for.

Last year we received 20 photographs of children in Peru. Students in the eigth grade Mixed Media class spent weeks creating a chalk pastel of each child while learning a little about the circumstances that these children live in. We have linked videos of our introduction to this project as well as the video we received of the children in Peru receiving the portraits made by our very own haumāna.

This year, eigth graders will be drawing portraits of 16 keiki from Columbia. If you would like to support our haumāna with this project, contact MS Art Kumu, Nicki Barsamian (nibarsam@ksbe.edu) for more information.

This article was submitted by Jamie Kawamoto of the KS Maui Kula Waena. For more stories about the KS Maui campus, visit their website.

KSM MS Memory Project Final

Children in Peru receive their portraits that were done by KSM MS mixed media art students

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