The Dream Rocket Project is dreaming big!
"Through these exhibits, visitors will see the many ways that students have expressed their understanding of what innovation, creativity and imagination means to them,” said DRP organizer Jennifer Marsh. “By exposing students to the importance of collaboration through multi-disciplinary approaches, we hope to inspire them to feel the freedom to dream big.”
In 2008, a group of educators and artists formed the International Fiber
Collaborative (IFC), a non-profit organization with a mission to create deeper learning experiences through art, collaboration and cross-curricular themed
programming for
individuals and their
communities.
IFC’s current initiative,
the Dream Rocket
Project (DRP), which
was launched in 2009,
is collecting 8,000
pieces of artwork that
in 2015 will be stitched together to wrap a 363-foot Saturn V Moon Rocket replica at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama for a temporary exhibition. The Saturn V rocket is 60 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty.
So far, art submissions have been received by individuals residing in 17
countries, 46 states and 363 communities. Prior to the wrapping of the Saturn V, all submissions are being displayed in libraries, schools, museums and community centers. Over the last three years, 162 venues have exhibited submissions in communities across our nation. By 2015, DRP estimates thousands of people will have contributed to a monumental 32,000 square foot wrap. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist with The American Museum of Natural History in New York, and Director of its famed Hayden Planetarium, is an internationally known science advocate. He encouraged the DRP to incorporate the dream symbolism into the project because,
“The Saturn V is the ideal icon to represent a big dream. This rocket was designed and built as a collabo-ration of nearly half-a-million people and allowed our human species to venture beyond our world and stand on another – surely one of the biggest dreams of all time. Enabling the dreams of young people to touch this mighty rocket sends a powerful message.”
Learn more at www.thedreamrocket.com
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