Remember the Children Memorial Project 2024
Artist-in-residence Cassandra Gunkel leads creative workshops
May through October 2024, Cassandra Gunkel will
be working with children to create a Remember the
Children Memorial. Through numerous workshops,
held in the Upper Burying Ground, the project will
engage children around gun violence. Using vari-
ous art processes, such as screen printing and book
making, children will create signs, posters, and small
books, expressing themselves through artmaking,
sharing, and exhibiting.
At the Upper Burying Ground children will create:
Textile memorials to Philadelphia children killed by guns, which will become an Upper Burying Ground art installation. Paper memorials, which will go home with children.
Anti-gun posters which children and families can distribute in their homes and schools.
Handmade books complementing those memorials and posters, to accompany events beginning with the August Back-to-School supply donation event.
Events will take place on:
Second Saturdays (May-October), Noon-4pm
Juneteenth (celebrated on Saturday, June 15), Noon-3pm
Thursday, July 4th
Saturday, August 24th: Back-to-School supply donation event
October 5: annual commemoration of the Battle of Germantown.
All ages welcome for all workshops. Children under 7 should be accompanied by an adult or older sibling. Registration is not necessary. All supplies will be provided.
