SUMMARY

#510: If The Shoe Fits… March 10 - April 14, 2006
The exhibition will actively promote the notion of world citizenship among participating student viewers by providing an opportunity for cross-cultural awareness leading to a free exchange of conscientious expression in the classroom, in the gallery, and on-line. Fairy tales offer humanity a conscious portal to world citizenship. A single tale told the world over will provide distant students a vehicle for global linkage. Art exchange projects based on interpretations of tale type #510 will offer students the opportunity to track and celebrate the embedded cultural differences discovered in each variant; in essence the participants will try on and walk in another's shoes.

Primary Goals
The exhibition #510: If The Shoe Fits… will respond to standard criteria employed by folklorists for tale type # 510, (see resources) by facilitating the collaborative efforts of artists to produce an inter-disciplinary exhibition including text, images and 3-D design. The exhibition will include juried artists' books, murals collaboratively designed by students, and artwork generated through partner schools in exchange projects. In conjunction with the exhibition, on-line teacher resource information will include curricula developed by educators from both the US and abroad that assess contemporary themes within the age-old tale; examining social similarities and differences that are simultaneously familiar yet reflective of distinct cultural heritages, providing the tools and an environment to foster students inquiry helping to prepare the to become interdependent citizens. Through an exchange of visual culture between local and distant schools, #510: If The Shoe Fits…will seek to increase an awareness of multiple societies, inspiring a response through shared classroom artmaking process.

Objectives
510:If The Shoe Fits… coordinates will seek and secure a host of collaborative participants to facilitate the exhibition:
- A call for entries will seek artists' books, in any medium, which use and or respond in some way to standard tale type #510 criteria relevant to the culture of the artists' origin or created from a subculture that the artist inhabits, or imagines.
- A call for curriculum will seek a core of educators to develop the design of critical on-line curriculum and supplemental educational resource links. Submissions will be reviewed by an advisory board prior to posting on the exhibition website for general access. The on-line curriculum will provide a base for international correspondence art projects.
- The creation and development of the exhibition website will incorporate: an on-line gallery, links for curriculum, educational and curatorial resources designed, implemented, and maintained by the 510: If The Shoe Fits… Webmaster.
- Curatorial contributions will be sought from individuals whose expertise includes the evolution of folklore classified as tale type # 510 as a global tale or the cultural disposition of shoe design. The exhibition will promote an interest in participating and facilitating global dialogue among the members of the domestic and foreign academic community (emphasizing public libraries and schools).