SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM

Residencies and Workshops

Tunde motivates students to reflect on their individual and cultural identity and to fully express themselves through their masks. They begin by creating a plaster cast from their own face. Next students will explore their identity and creatively convey that information visually. This project gives students a chance to look at their multiple parts of self from a holistic point of view and create mixed media sculptural masks to define their identities. The concept of stereotypes is central to this project because students need to learn how it influences peoples' perceptions and identity. Stereotypes exist in communities because individuals and groups' identities have been marked by negative stereotypes throughout history. Students will examine the concepts of stereotypes, race, culture and identity through dialogues and how limited information and historical miss-information can create boundaries between cultures.