Jen Braverman, Visual Art Teacher and LMC Fellow (2021 NJ) has been creating educational coloring books since 2006 to tap into the therapeutic practice of coloring. Her two volumes of Color Unsung Heroes are dedicated to individuals who made the world a better place and demonstrated extraordinary traits such as courage, compassion, and sacrifice—without seeking credit for their actions. Featured in these pages are portraits accompanied by inspirational short biographies of the Unsung Heroes. These coloring books can be used as a teaching and learning resource in the classroom to promote historical empathy and mindfulness.
ARTEFFECT celebrates the Unsung Heroes
as roles models through the visual arts.
The diverse and inspiring stories of the LMC Unsung Heroes are at the core of the ARTEFFECT. There are over 130 individuals on the LMC Unsung Heroes list that span time and cut across various disciplines including STEAM, social justice, the environment, medicine, and more. These individuals took actions in service to others and society and demonstrated altruistic qualities such as courage, compassion, sacrifice, and conviction.
In this video, educators share about teaching and learning through ARTEFFECT and the power of artmaking focused on the Unsung Heroes:
Ambassadors in Action!
Meet our featured Ambassador in Action Mevlida Turkes-Habibovic Ph.D., a teacher at Tom Benson School in Kenner, Louisiana.
Each ARTEFFECT Ambassador culminates their online fellowship with a capstone project that brings the inspiring stories of the LMC Unsung Heroes into their classrooms and communities. Here’s an excerpt from Mevlida about her capstone project:
“The second part of my capstone projects was my own artistic journey, reflecting on the work of two unsung heroes, Ramiz Nukić, a survivor of genocide in Srebrenica in 1995 and Carl Wilkens, who witnessed the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Inspired by Jennifer Braverman, the instructor of the ARTEFFECT Unsung Heroes and STEAM online session, I created a coloring/activity book about Nukić and Wilkens.”
Thank you to Mevlida for your dedication and inspiring work as an educator. Congratulations on the amazing lessons learned by the students at Tom Benson School in Kenner, Louisiana.
