MISSION
The One Blue Sky Project is a street art project that aims to instill within children a shared humanity. While there are many things that make people different, there are far greater things that make human beings the same.
Regardless of where a person comes from, everyone laughs, cries, imagines, and hopes. The collaborative artwork will foster unlikely friendships and represents the connection between two groups of children who may have markedly different life experiences, but ultimately live under One Blue Sky.
WHAT WE DO
Two groups of children, who live very different lives will develop a pen pal-like relationship, sending videos and pictures to each other across the globe to share their ideas about culture, friendship, and kindness. They will then work collectively to design a two-part mural concept that depicts their discoveries, with one section of the mural painted in each of the two communities.
The focus is to show the positive commonalities that both groups share, simply because they are children.
The mural is intended to be a longstanding feature in the community, an image that the communities will be proud of.
Projects
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Tierra Bomba, Colombia & Fall River, MA, USA
Students from two coastal communities, one in the US and one in Colombia met on Zoom and exchanged videos about their lives. While many things are different about the way they live, they discovered they also had commonalities and one resource that they shared: water. Learn more.
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Mutua, Mozambique & Lynn, MA, USA
Kids in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA have been connecting with kids in Mutua, Sofala, Mozambique through video correspondence. While their realities are worlds apart, more than 12,000 km, their appreciation of music, sports, and cultures resonates across oceans. Learn more.
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Slemani, Iraq & Biddeford, ME, USA
After exchanging videos and artwork, two 5th grade classes in Slemani, Iraq and Biddeford, USA painted messages alongside artist Pat Perry on two new murals in both of their homes 9,091 km apart. Learn more.
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Inhambane, Mozambique
To help build awareness of both human impact on the environment and the connectedness of all human behavior, students from Inhambane, Mozambique are exploring their way of life and how it effects their natural worlds. Learn more.
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Maputo, Mozambique & Miami, FL, USA
In our technological and globalized world, cultures are constantly mixing, exchanging and evolving. In an effort to create even more exchange, a youth group in the Khongolote Bairro of Maputo, Mozambique began corresponding via videos with a group of youth in the city of Miami, Florida, USA. Learn more.
