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Ms. McMahon's classroom raised $1,146

Artist Residency to Create Crankie Boxes That Enhance Learning

My students need time with this professional artist who will share her special skills!

This project is fully funded

Ms. McMahon Mts Elementary School

Minneapolis, MN Grades PreK-2

My Students

Our students are resilient, capable people seeking a great education that fits their needs. We are located in Northeast Minneapolis. Our students often enter school a little behind their national peers as many did not have the opportunity to attend preschool.

Artistic abilities and sensibilities know no boundaries such as poverty, but many students never have the opportunity to explore their artistic side.

In our urban setting, it's imperative that we provide wide hands-on learning choices, including a variety of artistic styles, for our future leaders! Our students do not always understand that they have great potential, but we are working hard to change the mindsets that come with a wide array of serious challenges that many of them have already faced. We endeavor to show our students that through meaningful participation in their education, they can and will have access to all that the world has to offer. This project, in particular, will go a long way toward providing our students a world-class education.

My Project

This project brings in a working artist to share her talents and inspirations will surely have a huge impact on the kids. It will take place near the end of the school year, and in it students will create a "Cranky Box", a moving piece of art that tells a story, to explore the concept of the changes that take place in the world during the summer. The kids will create the "crankie" and will also narrate the story that goes along with the art that they create.

This opportunity to incorporate a unique and fun art project into an academic program will ground students in the idea that art can be used to inform everyday learning.

The students will also have a chance to participate authentically in creating a piece through which they will express their own understanding of the materials they are learning through both art and narration.

Equity Focus

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

45 students impacted 36 donors

Project tagged as

Minneapolis, MN
Grades PreK-2
Music
Visual Arts
Charter School
Virtual Visitors
Nearly all students from low‑income households

Ms. McMahon Mts Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Minneapolis, MN 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

45 students impacted 36donors

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Visitor cost			$930.13
Vendor shipping charges			FREE
Sales tax			$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee			$13.95
Fulfillment labor & materials			$30.00
Total project cost			$974.08
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$171.90
Total project goal			$1,145.98
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$1,145.98
31 Donors			-$1,120.39
Donations toward project cost			-$974.08
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$146.31
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$25.59
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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Artist Residency to Create Crankie Boxes That Enhance Learning

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