Fourth Grade Project	Print Issue
October 2, 2012, Volume 59, No. 06

Now at the Burrison Gallery in the University Club at the Inn at Penn: The Fourth Grade Project, photographs by Judy Gelles. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, October 4 from 5-7 p.m. The Fourth Grade Project began four years ago, when Judy Gelles volunteered at an inner-city public school to help students with their reading skills. She was assigned to a fourth-grade class, and asked students to tell her about themselves as she wrote down their stories. Fourth graders answered the following three questions: Whom do you live with? What do you wish for? and What do you worry about?

In the photographs each child is facing away from the camera, thus remaining anonymous. Three schools are represented in the exhibition: an inner-city public school, a private Quaker school and a primarily Hispanic public school. The exhibition continues through November 9.