Building a Transatlantic Bridge Project culminates with Student Art Exhibition at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and Greensburg-Salem High School will present the Transatlantic Journal Project student art exhibition from November 20 - December 26, 2010. An opening reception will take place on November 19 from 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. and is free and open to the public. This exhibition, which includes thirty-eight reproductions of journal entries, is the conclusion of a year-long collaboration with Greensburg-Salem High School and three schools in Oberhausen, Germany, facilitated the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. After its conclusion at The Westmoreland, the student artwork will travel to the LVR-Industriemuseum in Oberhausen, Germany to be exhibited from February 5 – March 27, 2011.

In November 2009, high school students from both Greensburg, Pennsylvania and Oberhausen, Germany launched the Transatlantic Journal Project as part of the Building a Transatlantic Bridge project. Thirty-nine blank journals were purchased and exchanged back and forth between Greensburg and Oberhausen. Working in collaboration with each other, the students began to share writing and artwork on the pages of the journals. There were no rules for the project, and students were simply instructed to express themselves to each other using words and images. The students in Oberhausen and Greensburg became acquainted with each other through the journals.

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