Colonial Christian Academy Class

• Amanda Reyelt, a WOST Graduate Student, teaches a class called "Creative Arts for What?" at the Colonial Christian Academy in West Columbia, SC.

• The goal of the class is to provide students with the opportunity to creatively express themselves through visual art, theater, writing, speech, and music.

• WWI is working on another series of oppression and liberation workshops for the young women in Juvenile Arbitration.

• We want these youth to be able to recognize different forms of oppression and to have the tools to creatively manipulate this oppression and move toward a sense of liberation or enlightenment.

• Some of the techniques planned for these workshops include creating abstract artworks, writing poetry, making collages, and having discussions with peers.

Colonial Christian Academy Murals

• Our latest mural project, created by Julie Jacobson, was specifically designed for a 12 by 20 foot wall in Colonial Christian Academy's chapel.

• Julie used the Serengeti landscape, with a bayoubab tree to represent African culture; a crane to symbolize Asian culture; a brilliant sun signifying a Native American sunburst; pink Dahlias, which are Mexico's national flower; and fish to signify Christianity.

• In the near future, WWI will team up with Glenforest, a K-12 school for children with learning differences and focusing issues.

• WWI will use arts such as writing, theater, and the visual arts to encourage the students' creativity and uniqueness and to help strengthen their self-esteem.