One Million Bones is a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.
Their Mission is to create a visible movement that will increase global awareness of these atrocities while raising the critical funds needed to protect and aid displaced and vulnerable survivors. Through the One Million Bones project teachers use education and hands-on art making to raise awareness of genocides and atrocities going on around the world, this very day. On February 9, 2012 Reavis students and teachers rolled up their sleeves and dug into a variety of art materials to create over 450 bones and raise awareness to genocide. The one million bones collected from across the country and installed on the National Mall offer a visible petition, to remember victims and survivors, to bring awareness to the issue and to call upon our government to take much needed and long overdue action. For more information go to One Million Bones.