3/11 city arts project, Brianna

Henry, Ella, Maya, Amy, Lilly, Cameron, Aliza, Emma, Maya P.H. and I went to the first meeting of the city arts project. There were two representatives there, one was an old inhabitant of New Orleans, and another was the organizer of the Door project. They explained what the project is and asked us to come up with some ideas to paint on the door. The woman had told us that what we would be doing is called Global HeArt Warming; she said we are taking stand against global warming using our HEARTS and using ART. The door(s) we will paint are supposed to symbolize something that we feel should change in the way we run our lives to help out others. She explained that Hurricane Katrina was most likely caused by a speed up of global warming; and the theme of the doors is to give back. She told us to think about the question, “what would the Kids of New Orleans need to improve how they are living after the city’s reconstruction?” We are to then incorporate our answers into the door paintings along with the Mardi Gras spirit! This project is going to be very big and publicized so I cannot wait to start.