Under the direction of art teacher Michelle Block, second grade students at C. A. Reinhard explored their identities through self-portraiture, much like Mexican portrait artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1957).

The art project was composed of two parts. Upon researching and exploring Frida’s portraits as inspiration, the students were instructed to first work on their own masked self-portraits. A second portrait then revealed the student-artists under the mask and included words, images and colors that described them.

During the art unit, the students also compared and contrasted the self-portraiture of Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.