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JFK Students Get Hands-On Lesson From Renowned Artist
Ed Johnetta Miller recently visited John F. Kennedy Elementary School to teach fifth graders about textile arts.

For the past 15 years, John F. Kennedy's PTO has brought artists to the elementary school, proactively enhancing the arts education their students have received. This year was no different. Just last week, the PTO sponsored a visit from internationally-renowned textile artist Ed Johnetta Miller.
Miller, whose work can be seen in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., Nelson Mandela's National Museum in South Africa and the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, visited fifght-grade art classes to show how visual arts can be used to convey experiences and culture of an individual.
The quilts Miller has created were constructed using materials that she gathered from around the world, she told students.
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As a part of the lesson on the meaning of quilts an importance of visual arts, students got the opportunity to create works of their own, creating their own quilts-like creations using paper.
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