Exploring Social Justice, Community Service, Hunger, and Homelessness
Students from the Calhoun School and De La Salle Academy working on social justice initiatives visited the Cathedral to explore the connections between The Value of Food: Sustaining a Green Planet and their classroom studies.
For the last several years, middle school students from De La Salle Academy have visited the Cathedral as part of their Social Justice and Community Service elective course. For the fall of 2015, their weekly visits centered around the social justice aspects of The Value of Food. Early in the semester, they learned about the history of social justice initiatives at the Cathedral and toured the exhibition. They then dove deeper into the individual works of art, exploring objects and installations that addressed a variety of topics. These explorations led to each student creating their own mini-tour of the exhibition, which focused on 3 works of art. The tours were presented to their classmates in December as a culminating project.