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 …
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To our Hexagon Project Teachers and Community in 2020: COVID-19 has affected us also. Our Eastern Regional Exhibition is on hold until further notice. Jurying details will be forthcoming. June 30 deadline still stands. Read below for upload news and instructions. How to participate in HP 2020 We are asking you to upload your students’ …
Recently Irene Lantz, one of the teachers participating in the Hexagon Project, wrote to us about her experience dealing with the global COVID-19 pandemic. Her message follows: When we were last in school my NAHS students were working on their Hexagons. We were to have a meeting the last day we were in school but …
During these days of disruption and disconnection, it has been a pleasure to connect with some of our teachers who have participated in the past and find how they are coping. We begin with the Katagiri sisters. Meet Our Japanese Twin Sister Teachers The Hexagon Project has been fortunate to have two teachers, Aya Katagiri, …
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Can you help provide a CREATIVE stream of CONNECTION and COMMUNICATION in these DIS-connected times? The Interdependence Hexagon Project is reaching out to anyone who believes that we must stay connected. That human connection can blossom in diverse ways in times like these. That, through our Art, we can tell an expressive, progressive story of …
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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 her students. Any school or community is invited to do the same. Samples shown include two-dimensional work from Ms. Healey’s Creative Expressions class and three-dimensional sculptured pieces from her Ceramics …
Are You Biased? Here are some deep research-based practices for every-day consideration PLUS, at bottom, some links to articles on big ideas and global issues which may lead to action in the world. What are the implications of this new way of thinking and conceptualizing brain function for our understanding of prejudice—and how can we …
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, President, welcomed Mrs. Marianne Milks and Dr. Carl Milks, visiting from the United States, who assisted in the presentation of awards to the many students who participated from Everest English …
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 back to help celebrate the school’s 40th birthday. Founding principal Marty Kuhn joined current principal Mina Ardestani, teachers old and new, and a wonderfully diverse group of parents and children. …
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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 speaker, has a connection to the beginning of the Hexagon Project. The theme of the breakfast was “Framing the Future.” Over 400 community members gathered at the historic Radisson Lackawanna …
