The Identity Art Project consists of artists from Buffalo Grove High School's Human Geography sheltered course for English Language Learners (ELL).  The students come from a range of countries including Belarus, China, India, Italy, Iraq, Mexico, Russia, and Ukraine. During the unit of Identity, students explored global themes of ethnicity, race, and nationality.  As a means to explore these ideas on a personal level, students created art based on their own interpretation of their personal identity especially as recent immigrants to the United States. Students expressed the emotions of immigration, uncovered the trials of leaving one place and entering another as a foreigner, and also added topics of human rights and stateless nations.

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Art 1 classes explored their identity through an independent self determined project. Throughout this project they developed their visual identity and voice through their medium of choice.