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Art Saves Lives! I Ask for a Turning Point, These Books Can.

My students need 27 books about artists, including titles from the "Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists" book series.

Mrs. Chavez Woodrow Wilson Elementary School

Cicero, IL Grades 6-8

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I teach a sixth grade transitional bilingual class. The students are high risk, low income, and face unique challenges as English Language Learners. My school is located in an area that is becoming increasingly plagued by gangs and I would love to show them that there is more to life and that knowledge is the answer.

My students need to realize there is more to life than gangs, sadness, violence and destruction. I hope to enrich their minds with fine arts introduced in the series of books I am hoping you will help us obtain.

When I took one of the books from this series to my students, they really connected with the text. First of all the pictures hook them in. They learn that art is great form of expression and that they can and should communicate. The students said it was cool how the artist, Frida Kahlo, never gave up painting, even though she was hurt so badly and was made fun of and often alone. They were able to see that art was a great coping skill, you don't have to be a painter, like the artists that are presented in the series. They can enjoy art, they can create other art, spend their time doing creative activities instead of hanging out with the gangs and running the streets where there are drugs and shootings. They also spent their 20 minutes of computer looking up other artists. During a class presentation, one student said "I also liked Leonardo Divinci reminds me of someone." After some pressure from the other students he smiled and said, "Okay, Leonardo Divinci reminds me of me."

You will open up a whole new world for my students with this book series. They will see themselves represented with culture, pride and beauty. They can begin to imagine something other than dropping out of school and spending their days hanging out in the street life of gangs and drugs. Art helped me, personally, I have seen it help others and I hope with your help, we can continue to spread a love and appreciate for art and reading and with that, a love and appreciation of life- despite the living conditions that children in this low income population face daily.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

29 students impacted 11 donors

Project tagged as

Cicero, IL
Grades 6-8
Literacy
Visual Arts
Traditional School
Books
Nearly all students from low‑income households

Mrs. Chavez Woodrow Wilson Elementary School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Cicero, IL View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

29 students impacted 11donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

Paul Cezanne Mike Venezia, Shari Joffe (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Frida Kahlo Mike Venezia • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Andy Warhol Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Michelangelo Mike Venezia, Meg Moss • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Jackson Pollock Mike Venezia • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Henri Matisse Mike Venezia • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Monet Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator), Sara Mollman Underhill • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Diego Rivera Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator), Meg Moss • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Van Gogh Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Picasso Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Diego Vel Zquez (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists Series) Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Rene Magritte (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Art) Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Roy Lichtenstein (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists Series) Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Georgia O'Keeffe Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator), Meg Moss • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Henri Rousseau Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Frederic Remington Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Francisco Goya Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Diego Rivera Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $25.20 1 $25.20

Jackson Pollock Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator), Designed by Meg Moss • Barnes and Noble $25.20 1 $25.20

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Mike Venezia, Meg Moss • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Faith Ringgold Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Jacob Lawrence Mike Venezia • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Rembrandt Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Pierre Auguste Renoir Mike Venezia, Meg Moss • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Mary Cassatt Mike Venezia, Sarah Mollman Underhill, Mike Venezia (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Da Vinci Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator), Sarah Mollman Underhill • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Salvador Dali Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator), Meg Moss • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Materials cost			$206.65
Vendor shipping charges			$20.67
Sales tax			$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee			$5.17
Fulfillment labor & materials			$17.00
Total project cost			$249.00
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$54.66
Total project goal			$303.66
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$303.66
8 Donors			-$292.94
Donations toward project cost			-$249.00
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$43.94
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$10.72
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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Art Saves Lives! I Ask for a Turning Point, These Books Can.

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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