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Side By Side

Students celebrate their unique individuality through art as they produce elongated self-portraits on paper approximately 8 x 36 inches.

Ages: ages 5-12
Languages: All
Facilitator: Rowena Gerber and Yvonne Moyer in the USA
Contact: For more information about participating in this or other iEARN projects, write to iearn@iearn.org or see http://media.iearn.org/projects Web link


Side by Side Project Web site Web link

 

"View our Side By Side Video" on the class website of: Ms. Mink's Third Grade Class, Miami Country Day School, Miami, Florida, USA. Web link

 

 

 

See our Taiwan partners presenting Side by Side in movie format.
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Side by side

The Side by Side Project celebrates the uniqueness of young people through a traveling multi-cultural art show. Portraits from around the world are hung "side by side" to represent the coming together of individuals to make a better world.

Coordinated by Rowena Gerber, Yvonne Moyer at Miami Country Day School, Miami, Florida, USA.

Time line of Side by Side

  • 1996
    Introduced by art teacher, Helen Donnell, at Miami Country Day School as an art project during a study of Native Americans. Elongation freeze of Native American portraits was exhibited at school festival.

  • 1997
    Adapted by Rowena Gerber and Yvonne Moyer as a project for self-portraits.

  • 1998
    Introduced as an international collaborative art project at the IEARN conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

  • 1999
    Displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and at the iEARN Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

  • 2000
    Over 600 portraits displayed in the Ocean Room of The American Museum of Natural History. Displayed at the iEARN gala. Wide spread use of Side-By-Sides as introductions to penpals and cultural exchanges. Used at conferences in Australia and China. Petru Dumitru introduces a variation of Side-by-Side to EU, calling it "Holding Hands"

The Side by Side project is still active and growing, and has since been featured at conferences and gatherings around the world. Side by Side exhibitions are also hosted locally at participating schools that send and receive student artwork that represents young people's self-expression from all over the world.


" I am a masterpiece of the world."

Students from St. Mary's school in India holding their Side by Side drawings

 


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