About:
What is the Memory Project?
What is the purpose?
How did it start?
The project was developed by Ben Schumaker as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.
In 2003, while volunteering in Guatemala, Ben encountered a man who had grown up in an orphanage. This man explained that he did not have any personal belongings from his youth. He suggested that Ben help the kids collect special items that would contribute to their sense of identity and self-worth.
From this, Ben envisioned that having portraits made by art students would be a way to connect American youth with kids from other countries in a meaningful exchange of caring. The Memory Project was officially born in the fall of 2004.
How many portraits?
How do the kids react?
What is the Memory Project?
What is the purpose?
How did it start?
The project was developed by Ben Schumaker as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.
In 2003, while volunteering in Guatemala, Ben encountered a man who had grown up in an orphanage. This man explained that he did not have any personal belongings from his youth. He suggested that Ben help the kids collect special items that would contribute to their sense of identity and self-worth.
From this, Ben envisioned that having portraits made by art students would be a way to connect American youth with kids from other countries in a meaningful exchange of caring. The Memory Project was officially born in the fall of 2004.
How many portraits?
How do the kids react?