The MLK Project - Creative Expressions Club

It has been absolutely crazy in the Geisler Art room, which I love.  With the every other day schedule it seems like we are crawling through each project and with right around 100 students per grade it takes even longer to grade each project.  On top of all our art room chaos we have been creating some wonderful projects in the creative expressions club. Students have been working on various crafts, we started fixing a mural and plan to complete that in our next few sessions. Our newest project however was brought to us by Geisler Middle School's Assistant Principal Mr. Gustitus. He came to us last minute looking for some help with the Geisler display at the district Martin Luther King celebration. Since I have never been able to attend the MLK celebration I am not sure what the display looks like but from what I been told it hasn't been something to write home about. I am hoping that this year with all of the work done by both my students, myself and the creative expressions club we have a better display.
Our concept started with one idea, we thought about taking his image and combining it with phrases from his speeches. However, as often happens in art we started thinking about what we needed and our plans changed. In the end we decided to go with something that represented our unique diversity at Geisler. Martin Luther King's portrait was paired with his words "I have a dream" in 8 different languages, Russian, French, Spanish, German, Persian, Japanese, Arabic, and Hmong. These are all languages spoken by students in our school. While 20 languages are spoken in our school, I only choose 8. These 8 were selected on the ease of student accessibility; these languages are spoken by art students and were written on the final art work by the students and visually less is more. With the project being created last minute size became issue and so to try to put all of the languages spoken by students on the art work would have made the image to congested. Finally, we choose to frame the art work with images of students from Geisler our building really is keeping MLK's dream alive.
Well enough said here is the final product.  I apologize for the horrible image as soon as I get the art work back I will take a better photograph.