By
Stephanie Brickman
1 min read
By
Stephanie Brickman
Final year pupils at Glasgow's Calderwood Lodge Jewish Primary have begun working with artist Joanna Hyman on their UJIA-initiated Buttons project.
It takes its inspiration from Paperclips, the brainchild of Tennessee headteacher Linda Hooper, whose students set out to collect six million paperclips to symbolise Holocaust victims.
Ms Hooper visited Calderwood Lodge last year and the children subsequently decided to collect buttons and make them into pieces of art. To date they have collected 60,000 for the Shoah memorial, including contributions from Ms Hooper.
Each of the 17 children has an individual wooden board to which the buttons are glued and the finished artwork is displayed in the school.
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