The district’s diversity is represented in the 1,000 smiling, serious, and silly faces in black and white portraits that line the inner sidewalks of Bronson Park. The project itself required enormous team effort. "Our voices speak loud, not through our mouths, but through our hands."Ī thousand KPS' students have their photos on the sidewalks of Bronson Park as part of the Inside Out Project. By sharing our thoughts and identities, we create a stronger and healthier future for Kalamazoo,” Clearwaters stated in a press release. We are a diverse group of people using art to build bridges and understanding among the many communities that we represent. “Art has allowed us to share who we are with the world. We are innovators, dreamers, and creators,” which Clearwaters wrote. The theme of the project is unity and expressed in the statement, “We are Kalamazoo artists. Students in the exhibition were encouraged to participate by art teachers. Mandy Clearwaters, an art teacher at Winchell Elementary, had a vision to bring Inside Out, an international portrait project devised by French-artist JR, to Kalamazoo Public Schools.
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