WE ARE RESILIENCE:

MASKS OF HOPE

In partnership with Kids Rank, the National Veterans Art Museum created an arts curriculum: WE ARE RESILIENCE: masks of hope, creating masks around the theme of endurance. Looking at endurance from the flexibility needed in creating a design, making adaptions when faced with challenges, physical training breaks in between painting, we celebrated the art-making process! We are so proud of the Kids Rank members for their physical and emotional resilience of being military children.

In these times when wearing masks and face coverings has become an important safety measure. Thank you to volunteers across the world from artists, students, teachers, veterans, and families for creating and distributing cloth masks to essential workers and communities in shortage.

Interested in designing your own mask for the WE ARE RESILIENCE mask project? Email info@nvam.org for a mask template download to design your own masks filled with colors and images of how you are being resilient and enduring during these times.

Here are some questions to help you with your design: What is a mask? Who wears masks? Why do we wear them? What color are you feeling? How does that color express your feeling?

Thank you to all our military service members and their families, we acknowledge the unique challenges our military families are facing. A special thank you to our resilient young people! We appreciate and celebrate you and look forward seeing the artwork on exhibition!