This fourth-grade project was inspired by artist Tyree Guyton, who grew up on Heidelberg Street in Detroit. His neighborhood greatly influenced his art later in life. As a child, Guyton often visited the Detroit Institute of Arts with his grandfather. Since 1986, he has gained worldwide recognition for the Heidelberg Project, which transformed an entire street he loved into an interactive sculpture park. It showed how art can change a community.
Art teachers and their students learn from, transform, and reimagine the places and spaces around them. Young students connect personal growth to changes in nature, elementary students create abstract faces inspired by Detroit artist Tyree Guyton, middle school students design fantastical digital gardens featuring insects and flora, and high school students use yarn to illustrate cherished childhood memories.
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