The Memory Project

The Memory Project is a program that Masconomet senior Advanced Placement Studio Art students have participated in since 2006.  The project has been spearheaded by Ben Schumaker from Wisconsin since 2004.  High school students from throughout the United States receive photographs of children who have been orphaned or neglected throughout the world.  The students then create original portrait drawings of the children and send them to Ben who distributes them to the children in the orphanages.  Photographs are taken of the children receiving their portraits and these photos are subsequently returned to the artists completing the circle of giving and receiving.  Masco seniors have created portraits of children living in Uganda, Nicaragua, Hondurus, Guatemala, Romania, Thailand and Peru.  In the spring of 2011 a group of Masco students made a trip to Lunahuana, Peru to hand deliver the portraits of the children living in the NPH Childrens' Home.  This year our students are creating portraits of children from Sierra Leone on the west coast of Africa.  Delivery of these portraits will occur in March 2012. 

For more information about the Memory Project please link to their website:

The Memory Project

For a view of Masco's history with the project please link to the following:

Memory Project  2006-2011

For an overview of the service learning trip to Peru in April 2011 please link to: 

Peru Trip 2001