7th Grade West African Masks

This project was the result of a grant received by the Salem Foundation for Public Education. It was part of a unit I co-taught with Ellen Finn, the Derby music specialist. The students learned West African drumming, dancing, and singing along with mask making. These masks are clay replicas of contemporary hand-carved masks from Ghana. The students worked very hard on these, using hand building techniques they learned last fall. Click on each picture for a closer look.