Date and Time
Friday, April 19, 2024 - May 12, 2024
Location:
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
101 South Independence Mall East
Philadelphia, PA
The product of a new curriculum co-created by Working Assumptions, National Writing Project, and Citizen Film, Photographing Community: A Student Lens on Democracy, is now on view in Philadelphia. This curriculum was designed to encourage students to consider issues of community citizenship and care in the classroom, using American Creed clips as inspiration. We are excited to see the fruits of this endeavor out in the world and on view at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, now through May 12, 2024.
58 Central High School students captured, in photographs and writing, their beliefs, their values and ideals, including critiques of their own communities and of our American society. Their photographs are inspired by the national, multiplatform documentary initiative, American Creed, which looks at how communities around the United States express foundational democratic ideals. Central High School students are among the first to respond to this national effort.