{"id":208,"date":"2009-10-05T20:29:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T00:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/?p=208"},"modified":"2009-10-05T20:29:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T00:29:43","slug":"dearborn-schools-tile-project-makes-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/2009\/10\/05\/dearborn-schools-tile-project-makes-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearborn Schools Tile Project Makes the News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sam Algaithi, right, hoists his brother Emrran Algaithi, 16, up to reach the ceramic tile he painted with the word “citizenship.” (Ricardo Thomas \/ The Detroit News)<\/h5>\n

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From the Detroit News<\/a><\/em>:<\/em><\/p>\n

Dearborn<\/em> — A year of hard work is finally on display at Howe Elementary School.<\/p>\n

About 200 students spent last school year creating self-portraits on ceramic tiles that have been assembled into panels and were recently unveiled in the school on Oakwood near the Southfield Freeway.<\/p>\n

“Art always seems to suffer with budget cuts,” said Thomas Trimble, whose daughter, Mary, created a tile. “To see the kids involved in something so art intensive is great.”<\/p>\n

Some students created simple images of their faces, while others crafted ones that included a parent, animal or themselves as a tree or sun.<\/p>\n

Howe art teacher Kate Blair said she wanted to take on a major project with a cultural component. The school used Mexican artist Demetrio Aguilar to teach the kids how to make the tiles and their portraits. A district staff member knew Aguilar and his work in Mexico and recommended him for the project, Blair said.<\/p>\n

Masons, painters and carpenters assembled the tiles in panels grouped by core values such as esteem and citizenship.<\/p>\n

Mary Trimble was proud of the job she did with her tile, especially the painting.<\/p>\n

“I like the painting part the best,” said Mary, 8. “I like to paint.”<\/p>\n

Continue reading the whole article HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Sam Algaithi, right, hoists his brother Emrran Algaithi, 16, up to reach the ceramic tile he painted with the word “citizenship.” (Ricardo Thomas \/ The Detroit News) – From the Detroit News: Dearborn — A year of hard work is finally on display at Howe Elementary School. About 200 students spent last school year creating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}