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(Formally known as The Mural Project) Thanks for all of the e-mails we received from schools wishing
to participate in up coming exchanges. If your school was
not selected for 2012, please reapply for 2013. The
photographs below are from an exchange this summer between Denny International Middle School and Madison Middle
School here in Seattle and several rural schools in Tanzania, Africa . PHOTO
BELOW: STUDENT'S IN TANZANIA
  Photo's at right: Students at Denny Middle School  Photo below: Mural created of Seattle students hand prints which were then taken to Tanzania where students placed their hand prints over the existing ones to create a " Hand 2 Hand" mural that represents children helping children to create a better world.   MORE ABOUT PROJECT ART REACH:
To read about previous exchanges click on links below. Project Art Reach was known as The Mural Project until January 2012. The name was changed to reflect programs that we have added over the years such as art classes designed for seniors living in group homes and assisted living facilities . Project Art Reach is firstly an international multicultural children's art exchange program created in 1996 and designed to give children around the world a unique opportunity to get to know one another using art as a common language. (Later, art programs were designed and added for senior's residing in group homes and assisted living facilities.) Groups of children from schools are brought together and with the use of crayons, colored markers and other art materials they create a portable mural on paper. While the children create their "mural", volunteers are busy documenting the entire process with video tape and photographs. This brings a much more personal level to the project as children are able to put faces and voices together with the art work they receive from their foreign counter parts. The "mural" is then hand delivered to the corresponding school where the entire process is repeated and delivered back to the first group of students. The circle is complete. Art is a powerful thing. It's amazing to witness what can be created with a few little boxes of crayons and fifty feet of white butcher paper. The paper is rolled out on the floor, the children gather around it. At first there is silence. All that empty paper, all those children. Then one child begins to draw. Then another and another and before your eyes this blank sheet of paper is transformed into a fifty foot work of art. It's the most incredible thing to witness. Project Art Reach was established in 1996 and exchanges have taken place all over the world including: Namibia, India, Nepal, Tibet, Zambia, Tanzania, Morocco, Thailand, Mexico and Indonesia to name just a few. If you would like to have your school or organization participate in an up coming exchange please contact us at: amural98@aol.com
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