Help me give my students BLM face masks from their drawing with the online website Artsonia.
$879 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
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.
Our Title I school serves free breakfast for 85% of the students, and they get to the school early to eat the breakfast that they don’t get at home. My students eat their breakfast at school each morning before they come to my class. Fuel in their bodies makes them ready to learn and start the day. We are a uniform school. Some kids have uniforms that fit and are clean, and others have uniforms that are too big, too small, and don't really look clean. The majority of kids are happy, energetic, and ready to learn, but some students have trouble staying awake and staying focused. They come every day from group homes, and some are homeless or being raised by grandparents.
My students are 11, 12, 13, and 14-year-old boys and girls who are growing, trying, creating, experiencing, experimenting, challenging, and ultimately becoming educated with art in my classroom.
My classes are all year long, so I can work with these students in-depth with technology, get to know their strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, and see their creativity develop as their experience with art increases and grows.
My Project
With this project, students will each be designing a BLM face mask to actually wear.
They will do this project completely in distance learning, creating something useful with their art to keep them actively engaged in their art class by producing something they can use and learn about the Black Lives Matter protest.
I teach 6 art classes and I am trying to get funds so each student will have this opportunity to make a mask from their own drawings. 10% of the students I teach are African American and this will include them and support them as artists and people of color in the classroom. This project is about students learning about “Black Lives Matter” protests and making masks about this movement.
They will start by researching “black lives matter” protests, drawing about them from what they learned from their research and preparing a design for their cloth face mask. They will look at face mask designs and design 3 versions. Students will then pick the one they think looks the best and one they will want to wear. They will use Google drawing to create a design and use a mask template for their design. Maybe making a mask of their own will encourage dialogue with their parents about black lives matter in their community.
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