3D Printed Iron Gates: Celebrating an African American Artist Through a Transdisciplinary Lesson

摘要: —Student participant, age 8 hroughout Charleston, South Carolina, there is a distinctive style of iron gates and fences that frame the entryways of this historic city’s homes, schools, and restaurants. This is the artwork of an African American man named Philip Simmons, born and raised in this area. I am relatively new to Charleston and was surprised that not everyone I taught in preservice education classes was familiar with the artist. Sure, they had seen the gates peppered throughout the city, but they did not know who the artist was, or the painstaking work it took to create these works of art.