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Ms. Blackburn from Peru IN is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

A Printing Press So We Can Print Our Future Brighter!

Help me give my students a printing press so we can explore more ways to create art, including linocuts and relief prints!

  • $477 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

This is my first year at PJHS as the Art teacher and these students not only respect me but I think they might just like me. These kids want to learn about art and are always asking to try new techniques and different mediums. We have a wonderful art program at the high school and the administration does an incredible job at supporting the arts.

My students are in 8th grade this semester and are creative and yearning for a way to express themselves and learn.

I am so excited to be their teacher and help guide them in finding themselves, both personally and artistically. I have all ranges of abilities and all of these students are positive and uplifting during critiques of one another's artworks.

My Project

This press will allow my students to create different kinds of art that they do not have access to at the moment. After Fall Break of this year, I plan to have the students learn to create linocuts out of linoleum and then we are going to use spoons to transfer the image on the paper. While this method is effective, it is not the most efficient nor the best way.

Printmaking is a wonderful experience and something that the students could use and reference throughout their lives.

I would love to be able to give my students a chance to try as many mediums and techniques as possible. One student may not like one part of art but may really enjoy another that they didn't yet know existed and it could open their mind up to trying out different concepts.

Ms. Blackburn
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
40019-1009 - Blick Baby Press Package • Blick Art Materials $369.60 1 $369.60

Materials cost

$369.60

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$405.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$71.50

Total project goal

$476.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $476.64

4 Donors

-$344.28

Donations toward project cost

-$303.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.14

match offer

-$120.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$102.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.36

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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