Creating Portraits of Youth Around the World Facing Challenges
My students need art supplies (brushes, paints, colored pencils, paper, easels, crayons tracing pad) and fees to participate in the Memory Project so they can create and donate portraits to youth around the world facing challenges.
Our Title I middle school is a diverse high-needs school of 1400 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. Almost half qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Many of our students receive services including ESL, special education, and academic intervention.
Our students need to develop the 21st century learning skills necessary to be ready not only for college and careers but also life!
They are goal-oriented, hardworking, and dedicated children who come to school each day, knowing that they are welcomed by nurturing and knowledgeable teachers.
With the generous support of DonorsChoose.org donors, our library Makerspace encourages students to learn and create with everything from recyclables to robotics. Through design thinking challenges, they have realized that it doesn't matter what tools you use to create prototypes with. Great design begins with considering the needs of others. Our Kids Kindness Kart program offers students activities that they can participate in to make a difference. They wrote letters for the Macy's Make a Wish letter writing campaign and painted welcome home signs for Habitat for Humanity. Our student "techsperts" assist in the library to make all of this happen.
My Project
My sister was a great artist and an avid reader, who had a place in her heart for everyone. Before she passed away during her senior year, she participated in the Memory Project with her art class. The Memory Project is a charitable nonprofit organization that invites art teachers and their students to create and donate portraits to youth around the world who have faced substantial challenges, such as neglect, abuse, loss of parents, violence, and extreme poverty. My sister used her artistic skills to create a work of art that is now a piece of another human being's personal history.
Igor Babailov once said "Art is an international language, understood by all." In honor of my sister, I would like my students to have the same opportunity to touch the lives of others through art.
Using print and digital photographs of children in residential homes, schools, and care centers from various countries as inspiration my students will have the opportunity to creatively practice kindness and global awareness. Our students need to transcend tolerating others' differences, to accepting and celebrating, the diversity of humanity.
The Memory Project Participation Fee
• The Memory Project
$15.00
20
$300.00
US Art Supply 124-Piece Deluxe Watercolor Painting & Sketch Drawing Set with Wood Drawer Table Easel, 12-Tubes Watercolor Colors, 9"x12" & 11"x14" Watercolor Acrylic Painting Paper Pads, 22 Artist Brushes, Plastic Palette with 10 Wells, Wooden Pallete, 36-Piece Premium Watercolour Pencil Set, 45-Piece Artist Pencil & Watercolor Cake Set, 9"x12" Drawing Paper Pad, 9"x12" & 5.5"x8.5" Spiral Sketch Paper Pads, 5.5"x8.5" Hardbound Sketchbook & Now Includes a FREE Color Wheel
• Amazon Business
$94.96
2
$189.92
Surebonder CP-1 Cray-Pen New Revolutionary Painting Tool
• Amazon Business
$13.65
5
$68.25
Surebonder CP-32 Cray-Pen 32 Color Pallette Wax Pucks 32 Colors for the Cray-Pen Painting Tool, Medium
• Amazon Business
$13.00
3
$39.00
Surebonder CP-TIPS Copper Replacement Tips for the Cray-Pen Painting Tool, Small
• Amazon Business
$8.60
4
$34.40
Surebonder CP2-3 2 Piece Clean-Out Wax Pucks for Cray-Pen Painting Tool
• Amazon Business
$7.55
3
$22.65
Crayola Light-up Tracing Pad - Pink
• Amazon Business
$19.97
1
$19.97
Materials cost
$674.19
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$10.11
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$714.30
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$126.05
Total project goal
$840.35
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$840.35
43 Donors
-$595.41
Donations toward project cost
-$530.70
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$64.71
Matching donations from our partners
-$216.00
Match offers toward project cost
-$183.60
Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Mrs. Holzweiss and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.