Making Art and Discovering History: Stepping into the Past

Today was the day! The Decades Project! After all the preparations, studying, gathering of data and artifacts, we presented our decades to the unsuspecting students who walked through Greenlawn. To say there were a few shocked students would be an understatement. We shocked and surprised many students at IUSB today.

Much of the Education staff at IUSB knew we were presenting and came down to see us dressed up in the fashion from our decade. Everybody looked great and everyone's tables were fantastic!

This is a picture or our table: 1920s. We had two computers running with our PowerPoint and a video with music and pictures.

We had our signs that were typical during the 20s. Women were given the right to vote during the 20s, which was our selling point for the women who walked through the lounge looking at our tables.

This was a close-up of our tri-fold board and some of the artifacts we included. The Mickey Mouse was to represent the first Mickey Mouse cartoon that debuted in the 20s. We also have Winnie the Pooh books and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Here is Aubrey dressed as a conservative woman during the 20s holding a sign that conservative women would have held during the times of Prohibition.

And here is our Flapper! She was so self-conscious in this outfit, but she looked quite the part! It was perfect and too funny!

The 50s were right next to us! And Bre frequently stole votes from us! They had a hula hoop and pogo stick that was quite the commodity!

Elvis taking a minute to pose for the camera!

Bre had a lot of fun with that hula hoop!

The 40s won the day! They had a lot of really awesome artifacts! Sarah brought in an authentic trunk and pilot uniform from WWII. They belonged to her grandpa.