Human rights museum puts on artwork from school kids to honour children’s rights
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Nathalie Janzen led her family through a display Saturday at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights looking for her panel among of 99 tiles of artwork that kids from Pembina Trails School Division created back in May at Investors Group Field.
When the five-year-old kindergarten student from Chancellor School spotted her tile she was delighted to point it out to her parents and a visiting aunt from Toronto.
“My husband and I did the tour on Victoria Day and we had a really good time and we were telling everyone about it and we came back today to see the tile. When it’s your child’s tile in a world class museum, you’re going to come to see it,” said mother Deidre Ross.
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The little girl proudly posed for pictures with her artwork, a small 8×10 inch canvas, that depicts her interpretation of the theme of the project. Each panel was inspired by the UNICEF’s Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In her case, Janzen picked up on her family. The tile shows her giving presents to her parents and her little brother Jonah.
Aunt Tammy Degroot said she’s impressed that human rights was a topic for kindergarten. “The fact that they’re teaching them about something like this when they’re so young is amazing. In kindergarten, I remember learning how to tie my shoes, I don’t ever remember dealing with human rights,” Degroot said.
Students from Pembina Trails School Division took over Investors Group Field for two days to complete a massive art installation celebrating human rights and UNICEF’s Convention on the Rights of the Child. Each student illustrated an 8×10-inch panel to depict what human rights means to them. The panels were then installed on the turf in a dove-shaped mosaic on May 20 and 21.
The museum took an interest in the project, which totalled 15,000 separate pieces of art by the time it was finished, and agreed to use 99 pieces as part of a special display this weekend.
The display can be viewed from noon until 4 p.m. Sunday.
After that, the school division will take the pieces back; all the panels will be returned to students at the end of the school year as souvenirs.