Deflagrations: Children of War, a traveling exhibition featuring art by children who have experienced the trauma of conflict, includes a Youngest Witnesses image of the Twin Towers being defended by dragons. The work was exhibited at Médiathèque André Malraux in Strasbourg, France in 2017, at the MUCEM in Marseille, France in 2021, at the MIR in Geneva, Switzerland in 2023, in Paris in 2018, and in Bordeaux, France in 2019.
Deflagrations exhibition in Geneva, 2023
Deflagrations exhibition in Strasbourg, 2017
Deflagrations exhibition catalog
The Sad Park
Composer Michael Gordon included recordings of the Youngest Witnesses in The Sad Park, his piece for the Kronos Quartet that premiered in San Francisco and was performed in New York at Carnegie Hall in 2006. Gordon authored an article about the piece in the New York Times on 3/15/07.
Forever After: New York City Teachers on 9/11
2006 Association of American Publishers PSP Award for Education
Teachers College Press has released an award-winning compilation of NYC teachers’ experiences of 9/11 that includes a chapter by educator Loyan Beausoleil about the young children in her Lower Manhattan classroom who witnessed the destruction of the World Trade Center.
“These moving, firsthand accounts reveal the amazing wisdom and courage of public school teachers and administrators who cared for and protected the children in schools near the World Trade Center and around the City on 9/11. The inspiring stories in this collection bring into clear focus the enormous responsibility that teachers and administrators face every day and the crucial role they play in helping students make sense of the world, especially after terrifying and incomprehensible events like 9/11.”