EIC Children’s Tile Wall

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In Spring 1998, in anticipation of the new UM-Dearborn Environmental Interpretive Center’s opening, Ford Motor Company awarded $200,000 for the Children’s Environmental Wall project. 

The project engaged over 2,000 school children, mostly between the ages of 7-12, in environmental education programs conducted outdoors in the UM-Dearborn Environmental Study Area. Led by naturalists from the UM-D Natural Areas Department, the children were encouraged to pencil sketch one memory from their field trip onto a blank 6” x 6”, unfired ceramic tile. This was most often done in their own classrooms upon returning to school.

This website makes those tiles available online, with the associated information, so that former artists can find the tile they made nearly thirty years ago.