Bones

Art Club, National Art Honor Society, and Interact Club joined together for our first meeting to create bones for an installation that we will be having in the spring. We will be installing over 500 bones (one for every student, staff member, and additional employees at our school) to raise awareness of ongoing genocide. We will also be partnering up with a class that is studying genocide to help provide facts and information about ongoing genocide in places like Somalia and The Democratic Republic of Congo. 

This project was inspired by the One Million Bones project, which was held last year at the National Mall in Washington D.C. One Million Bones were installed there to raise awareness to ongoing genocide. For every bone donated, $1 was given to help bring relief to countries suffering from ongoing genocide. At the end of our project, we will also be donating our bones. 

Art is an extremely powerful tool to raise awareness, engage a community, and mobilize action. We can't help something that we don't know about. Art Club, NAHS, Interact club, and students studying genocide at BBHS will help fight crimes against humanity by raising awareness to our school and community. 

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” 
― Margaret Mead


Here are some photos from Day 1~ 

First students designed a bone with newspaper and covered with masking tape~

Students working~

After the bones were made with newspaper and masking tape, students 

used plaster gauze to mold their bones~

A few finished bones~