Coming Together: Our Children Respond to 9/11 with Hope for the Future

July 18, 2007 through January 18, 2008

Produced in collaboration with the NYU Child Study Center, this exhibit features paintings, collages and multimedia created between 2001 and 2006 by children in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

“The most important aspect of this exhibit is that it not only acknowledges the confusion, fear and sorrow we all felt in the fall of 2001, it also allows us to see the desire that so many young people have for a more humane world,” said Meriam Lobel, the exhibit’s curator.

Excerpts from two media productions from NYC elementary schools, PS 22 in Staten Island and PS 5 in Inwood, as well as a documentary from St. Peter’s Prep in Jersey City, are also featured in the exhibit. In the video from PS 22, students discuss “taking back 9/11 from the terrorists.”

All of the work in the exhibit was created with the support of parents and teachers who recognized the strong need young people had and have to express their reactions to the catastrophic events of 9/11/01. The voices of children, parents and teachers from around the city, the nation and the world are interwoven throughout the exhibit and verbalize the transitions of response from fear and confusion, to compassion and unity, to hope for the future that is also reflected in the artwork.

A handout at the exhibit provides language and art activities for young people and suggestions for parents on ways to discuss traumatic events with their children. Extensive resources for parents and teachers are available on the NYU Child Study Center’s website, www.AboutOurKids.org.

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