Workshop Description The project begins with a 45 minute teaching presentation, followed by hands on workshop groups of 40 minutes each, back to back 50-250 students each, depending on available adult or older peer support. The 45 minute presentation is made to  full school, camp, or full or selected grades, in auditorium or other large area. A microphone and VCR are needed, as well as seating for all. Teaching presentation focuses on the use of art in the service of teaching ethics. The power of symbolism in art is explored,  lending significance to the mundane; how (discarded) soda can tabs can represent lost lives destroyed by hate and intolerance. Students are asked to respond to the significance of broken, bent, or damaged tabs, tabs of differing shapes and colors, or  tabs linked together, by interpreting their symbolic meaning.   Ideas of humans as symbol makers, ie. alphabets, language, and  arts as civilizing forces, are explored. Brief histories of righteous persons who risked their lives to save others in WWII are profiled, (such as Raoul Wallenberg) touching on how powerful visual symbols can represent these histories.  Other layers of significance to the project are presented, transforming waste to have meaning, recycling, symbolism of wings, etc.  An ABC/CBS/NBC News video presentation is included that shows students across the country working on the memorial, with Holocaust survivors. Students learn of the collection of the 11 million soda can tabs from all 50 states and eight countries accomplished by a middle school in Illinois,  and how that collection has turned into this memorial in progress being constructed by 50 thousand youth nationally. The video includes visuals of the massive butterfly memorial in progress at various museum, and other site installations.  In workshops directly following the presentation,  I demonstrate how feathers are made for the massive pair of WINGS: the technique for stringing tabs onto wires; inserting rods to create the feathers stems.  Participating students are asked to sign in, as artists sign their work.  Materials are passed out by adult helpers or and or teachers/counselors (ratio: 8 per 50 participants). Each pair of students receive an 8 ounce baggie of tabs and a 45 inch aluminum wire. Students work in pairs.  While students string tabs, the designated helpers receive close up  training  for the method of weaving rods through  finished columns of tabs. When students complete the stringing process, the trained helpers fan out with rods to demonstrate the rod insertion process with the participants, starting each pair of students on the second stage of the feather building task, so they can complete the "feathers" on their own. Completed feathers are inspected by the assistants and myself, students are asked to make adjustments as needed. Students who finish their feathers early collect  empty baggies, and weigh and refill with loose tabs for future workshops with other students. Feathers counted are packed into cartons by students. Closing remarks are made, students are asked for their responses to the workshop.  Students who may be interested are asked to create their own works of art  in response to the project, either individually or in teams (visual art, poems, short stories, performance work).  Student work in response to the project may be included in the changing web-site or in upcoming WINGS exhibits.