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Ms. Keir from San Francisco CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Printing Press For The Art Room

My students need two press blankets and an econo etch model for making prints in Art Class.

  • $631 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Over the years, my students have become very skilled and sophisticated print makers. They need a press to take their abilities to a new level.

I teach art at a Kindergarten through 8th grade school that has a unique, arts based curriculum.

We use the arts to study all curriculum areas, from math to social science to art as its own discipline. It's a public school with a wonderfully diverse student population.

My Project

The press I would like to buy has been a dream of mine for years. Recently I took some students to a local museum to see a printmaking exhibit. They were spellbound, watching a Japanese printmaker explain and demonstrate his work. They asked the most sophisticated questions you could imagine. This experience taught me so much about how they've grown as artists and what materials they need to grow even further: they need a press. The press I am requesting will allow my students to learn the techniques of professional printmaking and expand their skill and knowledge of this art making technique. Currently, we make prints with very primitive processes, and this press will make a world of difference regarding what my students will learn.

Thank you for considering this request; if it's funded my students will grow tremendously as young artists.

As a public school teacher I am very motivated to find ways to provide my students with every experience possible. The potential of this proposal, once realized is huge!

Ms. Keir
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
ECONO ETCH MODEL II/W/STEEL BED PLATE • Blick Art Materials $431.00 1 $431.00
PRESS BLANKETS/1/16X10.5X19 CTCH/EC • Blick Art Materials $8.98 1 $8.98
PRESS BLANKETS/1/8X10.5X19 PUSH/ECO • Blick Art Materials $12.55 1 $12.55

Materials cost

$452.53

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$41.41

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$535.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$94.54

Total project goal

$630.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$630.27

4 Donors

-$630.27

Donations toward project cost

-$535.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$94.54

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$0.00

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