CHAMBERS

Chambers began with an exploration into the lives of the African American men and women resting at Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, PA. The positive characters traits of these great men and women led us to create symbolic self-portrait imagery. Each artist weaved three symbolic plants and flowers together to create unique artworks. Numbers were grafted into the drawings to mark birth years and significant milestones.

(CLICK HERE FOR PLANT AND FLOWER SYMBOLISM)

EPIAUTOBIOGRAPHS

ALIVE IN HISTORY

The learners involved in the Eden Project included a group which also participated in service-learning at the Belmont Mansion where they performed as docents and living-history interpreters, integrating their study of the Underground Railroad and the Abolitionist Movement with service to the Mansion’s Museum staffing and programming. During the residency sessions the artists engaged learners in experimentation with both visual and performance art techniques, incorporating themes relevant to the history they were studying as part of their interaction with the two historic properties, Eden Cemetery and Belmont Mansion. READ MORE

EDEN PROJECT RESIDENCY:

VISUAL ARTIST: BEN VOLTA

THEATER ARTIST: BRETT KEYSER

LEAD EDUCATOR: KATHY LEE

This project was supported in part by the The West Park Cultural and Opportunity Center, Learn and Serve America, the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.