SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC NEWS) — To celebrate the new millennium back in 2000, Neil Tetkowski set out to create an art piece that symbolizes unity around one shared world. He asked each of the 188 countries in the United Nations to send him samples of clay or sand. Tetkowski received packages of clay from around the globe, along with photos of the people gathering them. It took him a year and a half to create the piece. The sculpture debuted in the visitors’ lobby at the United Nations headquarters in New York City and is now the centerpiece of the Common Ground exhibition at the Everson Museum here in Syracuse.
The exhibition is the focus of this year’s Everson Winter Arts Camp. Students will use the exhibit as inspiration for their own projects. The Everson staff is proud of the teachers that will be teaching this week. They say that both teachers have experience with children and have done research on the exhibit to help design classes and activities around it. They also said that teachers are allowed and encouraged to be creative with how they taught the students. One of the teachers designed a scavenger hunt in the exhibit for students to learn more about it.
Adam Carlin, the Director of Learning and Engagement, touched on another exhibit that students were able to experience while at camp. The exhibit is called Hoop Dreams, and it is about basketball and contemporary art.
“In the exhibit, it features a half-court basketball court, so even yesterday, the kids were running around the Hoop Dreams exhibition and shooting hoops and learning about basketball through contemporary art,” Carlin says.
The Spring Camp at the Everson will be based around the Hoop Dreams exhibit and will run from April 3 to 7.
