The Border Project

About The Border Project 2

Funding and Support

An individual artist's mini-grant awarded by the Tucson Pima Arts Council provided the funding necessary to carry out this project. Working with students within Ajo , as well as 35 miles from Ajo at the high school on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation and eventually with Cobach High School in Sonoyta, Mexico, transportation costs were high but well worth the drive. Material costs were diverse and substantial considering the size of the installation, more than 30 feet long in total and averaging 6 feet in height. The project received such positive feedback it was moved soon after its first installation to be viewed in the main exhibit hall of the Curley School, and this move was completed by the International Sonoran Desert Alliance. This non-profit is also responsible for making the contact in Mexico to carry out the last leg of the project. The Rotary Club of Ajo also made a surprising and deeply appreciated donation towards the project and took a sincere interest in seeing its outcome. Morgana will be seeking out other funding sources to allow the project to travel and be displayed at other venues in the near future.

Lesson #1 What is “border”?

   · This lesson introduced students
   · to their own definition of 'border'
   · as a word as well as an issue.

Lesson #2 Border as symbol

   · This lesson had students taking
   · their definition of border and
   · drawing it as a symbol and in
   · turn sculpting it as a three
   · dimensional object. 

Lesson #3 Reexamining definitions

   · By this point students have had a chance to discuss the project with their parents/guardians,
   ·watch videos, and see slide shows to get additional perspectives on many sides of the issue.

Lesson #4 Final project

   · Now that students have explore their border symbol through different media,
   · They discuss the artwork of other border artists and create the background for their final portrait.

These educational plans were created by the artist, a former educator, to prompt subject specific and insightful perspectives. For a copy of these lesson plans or to discuss how to bring current issues into the art room, please contact the artist, Morgana Wallace.

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Links of Border Related website's

• Border Film Project is a collaborative art project giving disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the border: undocumented migrants crossing the desert into the United States, and American Minutemen trying to stop them. To date, we have received 73 cameras – 38 from migrants and 35 from Minutemen - with nearly 2,000 pictures in total. The pictures show the human face of immigration, and they challenge us to question our stereotypes and to see through new and personal lenses.
• Immigrant deaths along the U.S. Mexico border.
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• TucsonCitizen.com  Border deaths rise 29% in past year Toll rivals combined total for local car crashes, homicides; remains found may include some that were missed earlier
• Immigration to the US - Death on the Border, from www.TheNation.com
• Humane Borders Humane Borders, motivated by faith, offers humanitarian assistance to those in need through more than 70 emergency water stations on and near the U.S.-Mexican border.

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<p><a href=http://theborderproject.org/about2.html target=_blank>The Border Project</a> is a mixed media Art installation, highlighting the perspectives of high school students living along culturally and politically sensitive, present day borders. The students are from 3 sets of high schools, all living on different sides of significant AZ/MX/Tohono O'odham Nation borders. The high schools are, Ajo High in Ajo, Arizona, Cobach High in Sonoyta, MX, and the Tohono O'odham High school kids from the Tohono O'odham Reservation.</p>

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