 A turtle full of symbols in Susan Shanley's Northeastern (US) Native American Animal Mural, created with students at the Caroline St. School in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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An owl and a moose in Susan Shanley's Northeastern (US) Native American Animal Mural, created with students at the Caroline St. School in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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ONEWORLD CLASSROOMS NEWS
OWC to Team Up with Muralist Susan Shanley in Ecuador this School Year!
Later this school year, OneWorld Classrooms Director Paul Hurteau will join teaching artist and muralist Susan Shanley and Maryland Institute College of Art Cinematography professor and filmmaker Allen Moore on an educational adventure to Ba�os, Ecuador on the edge of the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Rain Forest. Susan will lead a team of volunteers and local students in the creation of a giant Animals of the Amazon Rain Forest mural at a local school. Meanwhile, Paul will travel to nearby Amazon towns to involve schools in OneWorld Classrooms' Amazon Rain Forest School Project.
This bulletin highlights Susan's mural work. Our next bulletin will inform teachers how they can register for and involve their classes and schools in the Amazon Rain Forest School Project. (Registration is open now!)
 Students painting an armadillo on the 260-foot mural in San Jose Villanueva, El Salvador.
Magical Animal Murals!
Since 1995, artist and social worker Susan Shanley has organized more than fifty public art projects and school projects involving youth, including indoor and outdoor murals, metal sculptures, dried-bean mosaics, and textiles. Last February, Susan led a group of volunteers on a trip to El Salvador where her team worked with 200+ local students to create a 260' mural featuring the animals of Central America. Later in the school year, Susan inspired 92 fourth-graders at the Caroline Street School in Saratoga Springs, NY to design and paint a 65' mural that illustrates the nine clan animals of the Iroquois people and celebrates animals, natural themes and symbols traditionally important to US Native peoples.
The photos in this bulletin are from those two projects. To see more, visit Susan's Mural Gallery on the OneWorld Classrooms Web site. You may also learn more about Susan and her Arts in Education work on our site. You can read more about the El Salvador mural project in this blog entry from the Albany, NY Times Union's Web site.
 Students in El Salvador working on their town's new animal mural. |
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