“My New Orleans” art book project

ReNew Summer Camp

Paul Malbrough Jr/ Mrs. Thompson

As a multi-week project, we have worked with the students at Renew Summer Camp Schaumburg Campus to create their own art books about New Orleans culture and their relations to it. New Orleans culture was broken down into different topics including Music, Food, Super Sunday and Mardi Gras Indians, Parades and Floats, Buildings, and Wild Life. Each topic was lead by a 10-15 minute lesson on its cultural impacts to the city. The students were then allowed to draw what that topic meant for them. The students were also brought into the school library to look at examples of book covers and how they convey what the book is about before creating their own covers. It has been a great joy to see the students take ownership of their own personal connections to the city and while expressing those connections in the form of art books that they can share with others after the summer camp is over!