[Katy Lehman]

In an effort to change art curriculum so that it is more reflective of the changes in consciousness regarding gender, race, and other identities I believe there are far more opportunities than challenges. I believe a huge part of educating children on gender, race, and other identities is to start by helping children to cultivate self-awareness and self-love. In order to have an understanding of others, self-awareness is crucial. Projects for children at a young age can focus on biography or family heritage. Children create artwork about themselves, their gender, race, ethnicity, religion, heritage, etc. And they can share the projects with the class. Learning about themselves and then learning about one another. They develop a deeper relationship with their piers and gain more knowledge and others’s race, gender, religion, and heritage. When children learn about empathy, they will be able to live in harmony with people who are far different and more diverse than themselves. Boys will understand girls. Jews will understand Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, and more. Asians will understand Mexicans, Europeans, Americans. They will understand each other because their friends taught through their art that they creatively put together and presented.

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