Princess Ameyalli	Fieldston Lower School	Roseway Waldorf School	PS #100	Jacob's Ladder	Clay For Kids	High School Students	Clayworkers
Mexico_City, Mexico	Bronx, New_York	Durban, South_Africa	Bronx, New_York	Karmel, Israel	Venice, California	Lausanne, Switzerland	Montclair, New_Jersey

The International Children’s Tile Project is a collection of over 1000 tiles from children of different countries brought together for an installation at Van Cortlandt Park, a public park in the Bronx, New York, USA. The project was installed May, 2002, and opened with a gala event sponsored by the Parks Department with hundreds of children in attendance, representatives of the schools and countries, and music. The tiles are at the stadium and adjacent pool located on Broadway at 240th St. in the Bronx.

The tiles are from students at Fieldston Lower School and PS #100 in the Bronx as well as Clayworkers, a program in Montclair, New Jersey. An underwater scene in clay tiles was contributed by Clay For Kids, an after school program for middle school kids in Venice, California. Children from the Roseway Waldorf School in Zwalulu Natal, near Durban, South Africa, made a stoneware mural with porcelain inlay. Two mosaic panels came from a small village near Jerusalem, Israel, created by Ethiopian immigrant children working with Jacob’s Ladder, a program of JDC. Middle schoolers at Princess Ameyalli School in Mexico City made large stoneware tiles with a ceramicist from Cuernavaca, as well as younger children from the countryside at Tlaltizapán. A young boy from Guanajuato, a tile making town, made a small mural by himself. Detailed fish tiles were sent by high school students from a school for Portuguese immigrant children in Lausanne, Switzerland. A mosaic panel made by street children in Rabat, Morocco, will be added to the installation spring, 2003. These children worked with AMESIP, a Moroccan organization which helps children at risk.

This project grew out of the ceramic program at Fieldston Lower School. Funding has been received from City Parks Foundation, the Myron M. Kaplan Directed Fund, and Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, the Ethical Culture Fieldston School as well as other interested individuals. The participation of PS #100 was made possible by Studio In a School.

The hope is that this project will celebrate the great creativity of children and further the cause of global friendship. The hands of children and the clay or land of the world come together to give children a larger voice.