Building with My Dad
The artwork of I Can Do That!/Very Special Arts student artist from Woodbine Elementary School, Edwin Pacheco-Levia, has been chosen for the international Arte Postale exhibit in Washington D. C. during the month of November.  Arte Postale 2010-2011 is a visual arts exchange program sponsored by National VSA.   Edwin’s entire class and teacher, Terri Meyer, were  nominated by I Can Do That! (a partner and local site of National VSA) then chosen by National VSA to participate in the Arte Postale 2010-2011 program.  Woodbine Elementary and Terri’s students teamed up with the Suzuki Foundation in San Muguel Buenos Aries, Argentina.  Artwork was created and exchanged between the two schools throughout the school year.



The Arte Postale exhibit will be at the Department of Education in November, opening November 16 during International Education Week and running through the end of December.  Edwin’s artpiece---one of only 30 chosen from a field of 2,000---is titled, Building with My Dad

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“In my postcard I am looking through binoculars across the street to the house I am building with my dad. I spend my summers with him. I chose this scene because I like to help my dad fix buildings. He works on the electricity. I like to help my dad do the electric in buildings and homes that he is working on.”




Arte Postale is an inclusive international visual arts exchange program designed for classroom students with and without disabilities. The program creates valuable cross-cultural educational experiences by forming relationships between students as they study and communicate about their lives. Students learn to express themselves in artistic ways through this inclusive approach to visual art in the classroom. Their creativity and views of the world develop as their imagination travels to remote lands and they discover the richness of other cultures.