Washington High School: FREEDOM SUMMER Mural

Connecting the PAST to the PRESENT: Voting and Education Rights

Washington High School 9th graders completed this dual residency during June of 2014. Milwaukee-based poet Darlin' Nikki Janzen and myself led the youth in considering how the demonstrations around voting and education rights that took place during Freedom Summer connects with their lives in the present. I took photos of them and placed them inside the historical black and white photos. 

They traced outlines using a projector and filled in the shapes with acrylic paint and sharpies. 

Colored images and text represented the past connecting with the present.