ABSTRACT
Metaphorically and physically structured as a Testimonio, this chapter describes the School for All arts-based Project (SAP). Including how the art teachers, the shelter volunteers, and the migrant children who came mainly from the northern triangle (e.g., Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala), planned, developed, and executed this project with all its bumps and all its happenings. The SAP’s primary goal was to contribute to and renew the community (Oquist, 1978). This project included the therapeutic characteristics related to creation within a free, artistic, and open reparative curriculum. Probably the most prominent example was using paintings-made for and with the migrant children-within which the emerging narratives demonstrated the ongoing-repairing process of sharing, co-creating, and expressing through the language of art (Anzaldúa, 1987). This oral history project displayed how a co-created arts-based curriculum can function as the perfect means to legitimize, empower and promote the historically marginalized voices of migrant children.
