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Ms. Albun from Chicago, IL is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Budding Artists Must Work Like Artists!

Help me give my students sketchbooks to gather inspiration, explore ideas and reflect on their artistic process!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Albun's classroom raised $342

This project is fully funded

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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.

My Students

Albert Einstein once said, "Creativity is intelligence having fun." As an art teacher, I am in the business of helping young artists develop both creativity and intelligence!

My student artists, many first and second-generation Americans, are growing up in a large urban school district, whose budget cuts resulted in the suspension of our school's art program for many years.

Our tremendous school community dreamed of bringing our students an art program, and have been thrilled to watch our students' creativity blossom. Now entering its 8th year, our art program has moved into a new classroom, transitioned to a choice-based-studio, and continues to see fantastic results. From September to June the walls of our school are covered with beautiful pieces that make students proud. Each year culminates with a school-wide art gallery and sees students represented in district-wide art shows!

My Project

As an educator who values creativity, innovation, and student's​ voice, I want students to be the directors of their own artistic experience.

In a choice-based studio, student-artists set goals, design projects, and identify and seek experience with necessary skill sets to achieve their best final results.

While students are challenged to take ownership over the content and stylistic elements of their work, each is guided through the design process, becoming experts in brainstorming, independent research, experimentation, peer review, and self-expression. In essence, the students learn to "do the work of artists."

One of the most important habits an artist can maintain is the practice of keeping a sketchbook. An artist's sketchbook is a place where they gather inspiration and work through ideas and challenges. It a place to make mistakes, take risks and explore ideas without the pressures of producing a final draft. It is through a sketchbook practice, that artists can find and define their voice, as well as develop the technical skills to bring success to those final pieces; both skills essential to middle school artistic and personal growth.

These student sketchbooks will become a home base for the independent learning of our 8th-grade artists, who have spent the last 3 years transitioning into a choice-based, student-directed studio and are ready to stretch their artistic wings! Students will use their sketchbooks each week to document their own artistic process. One student may be testing a variety of blending techniques with chalk pastels, while another is collecting images for photomontage, a third is reworking a sketch for their upcoming sculpture, a fourth is sketching from another artist work that inspires them, and another is journaling about their day as a means of idea generation. Students will look back at their sketchbooks and gain awareness of both process and progress.

Ms. Albun Goethe Elementary School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Half of 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Nasco Sketchbooks Classroom Set of 30 - 100 Sheets - 50 lb. 8-12 in. x 11 in. • Nasco $116.80 2 $233.60

Materials cost

$233.60

Vendor shipping charges

 $23.36

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$290.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$51.26

Total project goal

$341.72

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $341.72

8 Donors

-$341.72

Donations toward project cost

-$290.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.26

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