A little more than a year from now, Terry Pottmeyer’s artwork will be exhibited on a 365-foot NASA rocket in Huntsville, Ala.

The Island mother has submitted a handcrafted quilt panel that reads “Our dream... a world where every child is cherished” as part of the international 2011 Dream Rocket project.

Pottmeyer’s textile will be combined with thousands of others into a massive quilt that wraps around a replica of NASA’s historic Saturn V Rocket, which stands in front of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. The spectacle will be unveiled in May 2011, in commemoration of President John F. Kennedy’s May 25, 1961, pledge of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.” The historic feat was accomplished eight years later on July 21, 1969, when American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.

Jefferson Township Middle School Science teacher Claude Larson and Art teacher Karen Correia recently collaborated in "The Dream Rocket Project," a global collaborative initiative to connect art and education.

Students in Correia’s 7th and 8th grade Studio Art classes learned how art, culture, and science connect before designing personal "dream themes" that express hopes and dreams for a better tomorrow.