Make art to share your own community's COVID experience
Summary
Educator Sari Beth Rosenberg spoke to Tim and Charlotte Smyth about participation in the "
Hindsight 20/21
" and the power of art during difficult times. Hindsight 202/21 is a project hosted by
PBS NewsHour EXTRA
and
CoBuild19
.
All students are invited to become contributors by making art to help express the ways the pandemic has affected individuals and their communities. Students can still send in art this summer for exhibition next fall. If interested, you can
learn more here
.
Five Facts
Who
are Tim and Charlotte?
What
type of art does Tim create? What about Charlotte?
Where
does Charlotte say she begins her artistic process?
When
did Charlotte write her poem?
Why
does Tim suggest teachers of many different disciplines should bring art into the classroom?
Focus Questions
Think about your classroom, what are some ways that you could integrate art into activities? What are some ways that you express yourself through art that cannot be done in other ways?
Reflect on the pandemic year: What was it like? What do you want to take forward? What has changed or will be changed forever?
Brainstorm ways that you might be able to represent these reflections. This can be through art, writing, photography, etc. If you want, take that idea and make it a reality! Submit to our Hindsight 20-21 COVID Project.
Media literacy:
Think about how information is presented in this piece. What things draw your attention? How might different people interpret the information in this video, is there anything you would change to make it easier for you to understand?
For More
Check out Charlotte's poetry and other student work from the
Hindsight 202/21
project here.
To see how some artists have captured the pandemic, see these PBS NewsHour segments:
