Post Your Hexagons to Instagram and Tag #HexagonProject2020
We’re creating hexagons of our own, too.
The Hexagon Project is about expressing themes of connection and interdependence through hexagon-shaped artwork. We encourage you to express yourself about all the themes of interdependence as we always have, but now we’re asking you to share your experience with the Corona Virus and the changes to your life. By posting hexagons on Instagram using the hashtags #HexagonProject2020 and #HexagonProject you can make connections with participants throughout the world.
How are you and the people you know affected by the Corona Virus and the changes to daily life? Post your hexagonal artwork and photos about what you are doing, feeling, seeing around you — in your home, neighborhood, city or region. We will share images tagged #HexagonProject2020 on our Instagram account, @InterdependenceHexagonProject.
Eileen Healey, art teacher at Abington Heights High School in Clarks Summit, PA, recently presented a local Hexagon Project exhibit featuring hexagon-shaped artworks created by…
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Our good friends and partners in Butwal, Nepal [southern Nepal] have just completed their Regional Recognition Event at Manimukunda College, Butwal. Mr. Tuk Bahadur Chhetri,…
Beth Burkhauser remembers fondly the 26 years she spent teaching art at McNichols Plaza Elementary School in Scranton Pennsylvania. She was thrilled to be invited…
The Hexagon Project’s Beth Burkhauser was pleased to introduce the keynote speaker at the 57th Annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Sondra Myers, the…
An example of the Hexagon Project in action is a community partnership project between the Wyoming Seminary Upper School and the Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition on…
…is an all-volunteer non-profit community arts organization based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, that began 2006. The Project is managed by a dedicated group of artists, educators and friends who join with others in various parts of United States and the world.
We invite young people, adults and communities worldwide to: REALIZE social and global challenges facing the world today and use art as a vehicle to REIMAGINE how these challenges can be addressed through critical thinking, research and creative expression. We invite participants to RECONSIDER their civic responsibilities in a world that is increasingly interconnected and interdependent at local, regional, national and global levels.
We believe in the powerful role that art plays in bringing social change, promoting social justice, and transforming individuals and societies. We believe that every individual should have opportunities…
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Important aspects of our project are social responsibility and social action through art. We apply our mission of “Art into Action and Action into Art” through our community outreach programs. Our team, school…
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Education
We provide opportunities for learning in and learning through the arts in preschool though high school with our educational programs in partnership with schools and community organizations….
What a truly wonderful outcome for everyone … the Hexagon Project … gives voice to so many children and young people to speak out for protection of our world. As Joy Palmer notes, “education is about healing and wholeness. It is about empowerment, liberation, transcendence, about renewing the vitality of life and importantly it is about finding and claiming our place in the world” … the Hexagon Project takes all who participate into this space.
Jan Deans, Ph.D Director, Early Learning Centre University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I find that many teenagers really do have concerns about the world in which they live and they value the opportunity to have a voice. Because the [interdependence] theme is broad enough, they were able to adapt it to their own personal concerns.
Cindy HenryArt Teacher, Artist & Past President NY State Art Education Association
Regardless of our interests and our different opinions we all search for the same things — Peace, Force, Love and safe life. Thank you for this encouragement that gives my students a strong motivation to develop their thinking and their call for peace.
Jada Kadry Art Teacher Cairo, Egypt
Students in three different schools, in three different countries … exchanged letters both in English and Japanese with some art on the hexagon-shaped cards. This is one of the intercultural communication programs based on progressing their writing ability, not only motivating in language education, but also inspiring students with global vision.
Sonoko KatagiriArts & Letters Exchange Program English Teacher Nagano, Japan
I am very happy that I collaborated with you. My students had the opportunity to realize how powerful is art to send a message. The Hexagon Project makes young people gain their hope that their voices matter. Thank you for giving the opportunity to grow and be a better person and teacher through collaboration and visualizing a better world.
Maria LetsiouThessaloniki, Greece
Our students in Nepal have been curious, creative, and critical in thinking about the themes of INTERDEPENDENCE. The Hexagon Project has helped to raise awareness of brotherhood, sisterhood and connectedness across the world.
Hari PathikEducator Nepal
Kingdom Kids International School gave full support, and my working with the students on the Hexagon Flying Pencil Project for the second year has been incredible!
Olaniyi Sunday OlairanArtist & Art Teacher Nigeria
