April 2021
The Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department
Honoring Black History Month The Zone recognized and celebrated Black History Month by creating a group bingo board. Starting with a blank board, patients and family members worked as a group to create a game to be aired on KidZone TV at the end of the month. The contributors were prompted to think about leaders, activists, artists, athletes, musicians, historical figures and more to include on the bingo board. This group project spanned the month of February and served as a great way to spark conversation about Black history with patients of all ages! In addition to our special, Black History Month Bingo, KidZone TV celebrated historical and current figures in art, music, fashion, and beyond. Every week shows such as, Café Music, Art with Jeremy, and Art History celebrated Black artists. On Café Music, Jasmine Edwards led our audience in some history on music legend, Bob Marley. She taught the importance of his messages, featured in his book, “Get Up, Stand Up,” and sang songs. Another Café Music show included a “Write Your Own Blues” workshop. On one episode of “Art with Jeremy,” art therapist Jeremy Martin featured a local art exhibition, titled “Postcards to Harlem” at the Harlem Museum. Patients created postcards about their hometowns and neighborhoods. Another show, led by child life specialists Gretchen Greenlee and Julia Kellogg, highlighted the Black history of the body positivity movement. The movement was led by Black women, most notably Johnnie Tillmon in 1972. Julia and Gretchen led patients in an art-based activity centered on body image and the history behind the movement and the message that “all bodies are good bodies.” Our weekly Art History show, with art therapist Katherine Parker, not only featured Black artists, but invited our audience to paint along and create their own masterpiece in the artist’s style.
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