DMS Art Brings Holocaust to LIGHT

At the beginning of October, art projects that last year’s eighthgrade students at Dorseyville Middle School created in collaboration with the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh went on display for DMS students and staff members to view. The goal of the art initiative was to enable students and staff to deepen their understanding of the atrocities of the Holocaust.

One of the projects that was displayed was funded by a grant through the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, in conjunction with the national Butterfly Project. Students also collaborated with a muralist, Amanda Lynn, to create an original piece of art

influenced by the famous poem “The Butterfly” by Pavel Friedmann.

In addition, Nick Haberman, a Shaler Area High School teacher and founder and director of the LIGHT Education Initiative, was on hand to talk to students about the organization. LIGHT is an education initiative that connects K-12 students through human rights themes, including being an upstander, making responsible choices, kindness and love, and volunteerism and humility.

Dorseyville Middle school language arts teacher Scott Vensel, the LIGHT Center coordinator at DMS, was instrumental in facilitating the art projects at Dorseyville.