Eritrean art

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I've been working with our littlest artists the past couple weeks and they are experimenting with chalk pastels, too. We have been mixing colors and using letters and words in our drawings. For this activity, we are looking at the work of Ethiopian artist Wosene Worke Kosrof. He uses characters from his native language, Amharic, as the basis of his compositions. We start the activity by looking at Wosene's website, so the kids can see him and a couple of his pieces. When looking at his…