All about voting

For my major project at my fellowship, I have been going too different schools in Fort Worth and talking to students about the Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical society 7th Annual Juried Art School. The museum recently partnered up with TCBHGS and I decided I would design a small workshop session for students that wanted to enter the competition. During the session, students get to discuss the history of Voting Rights and the museum collections. And afterwords, they all make a poster that conveys a message they think is important. 

Here are some images from the program: 

I really love doing the program. The students have been doing a fantastic job. A lot haven't got to do printmaking yet, so they get to learn a technique. It was awkward at first to do the program, especially since all the high school students tower over me, but I have gotten the hang of it. Students are really embracing how the topic relates to their lives. I was worried that they wouldn't since we are talking about the past, but we found ways to make it meaningful for the present. I still have to see about three more schools. One has 400 hundred students, I am apparently suppose to speak to in one day. I am very worried about supplies and time. I will definitely have to abridge things for that school. I go to an elementary school tomorrow, I am interested to see how it goes. The goals for the elementary school program are entirely different and overall the program is more positive and focused on the students themselves. The high school program gets dark at points. The bottom image is of the class talking about a group of protesters being arrested. Its not the most pleasant of images. The elementary school students will not be seeing that one.

My not so secret goal is for all the students to vote in the future. That is the message underneath all of this. I think that is more important for me than them actually entering the competition.