As part of the Gaillard’s Education and Community Program three-year arts literacy initiative, which fuses visual and performing arts with literature to engage students and enrich their classroom learning, students will partake in a local history classroom lesson and interactive art projects. The Anson Street African Burial Grounds Project staff will teach students about the process of reinterment and the purpose of the memorial, before engaging them through the book Anson Street African Burial Ground: What happens when we recognize our shared humanity? Lessons from our ancestors. Once students are familiar with the project, they will work with a guest sculptor in art classes for two months to create sculpted pieces that will subsequently be displayed in a student installation at the Gaillard Center. Memorial sculptor Stephen Hayes will also interact with the students as they complete these meaningful works that will be shared with the greater Charleston community.