Beyond the Walls
5:12
Grades: 6 - 12
Video Description: Better Family Life is a non-profit which strives to help build and maintain strong families. Their project, “Beyond the Walls”, is a series of outdoor murals to help beautify vacant buildings. Two artists have been involved, Chris Green and Cornell McKay. Chris has painted images of successful African Americans and Cornell has painted symbolic images. Both artists have put inspirational images where there once was once only blighted out buildings.
Type of Video: Story*
Unique Video ID: Visual Arts-226**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- Use the video as inspiration for a student-driven mural art project in your own community. Where would students like to paint their mural? Why there? What would they like to paint? Why? If possible, have students create the mural.
*Story videos employ a narrative form to highlight a topic, location, or practitioner in the area of study.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
