Yesterday afternoon, Johnathan Leosch’s Cole art students met their study buddies, grown-ups from the Family Partner Adult Day Center, for the first time. The Pulitzer has gotten to know Cole Elementary School over the past year. Last fall, Leosch’s students took part in The Community Light Project. After visiting their classroom then, it was clear to me that these kids were extremely friendly and imaginative-and nothing has changed in the last few months.

Before they began their lessons with Director of the Metro Theater Company, Carol North, and SLAM Docent JoAnn Sanditz, the students gave name tags that they made to their partners. You can see their creations posted on the Pulitzer’s Flickr page in addition to the few succeeding examples.

After the session was over, fourth-graders Waiel and JoVaughn gave their impressions from the two-hour interaction:

Let’s Look has so far achieved moments of joy, visible in smiles–as the kids were dressed like Regnier models, or as the group worked on the block sculpture. Another goal reached was that the youngsters were able to relate to people two generations older than themselves.