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Ms. Bennett from Charleston SC is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Manikins for My Middle School Munchkins

Help me give my students a class set of posable wooden manikins for figure drawing.

  • $337 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Our school is a tuition-free, public charter school in downtown Charleston. The majority of our scholars qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Most of our scholars are focused on their STEM classes, but show great aptitude for visual arts if they are inspired. My middle schoolers express interest in learning to draw "better," or more realistically. Since inexperienced artists are shy to draw people from observation and afraid to mess up, they are more likely to participate if they have tools to help them "calculate" proportions successfully.

My Project

Imagine a world in which middle schoolers could stand completely still for 30 minutes at a time. This is a world in which my scholars could pose for each other for figure drawings. Since we don't live in that world, my scholars need tools to help us draw figures from observation.

Drawing from observation is an important skill to learn for artists.

Drawing from a photo is easier, but drawing from observation teaches scholars how to synthesize a 3D image onto a 2D piece of paper. Since my scholars are interested in realism, I would like them to experience drawing from poseable manikins.

Ms. Bennett
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
21651-1005 - Blick Hardwood Manikin - 16", Male • Blick Art Materials $9.83 12 $117.96
21651-1006 - Blick Hardwood Manikin - 16", Female • Blick Art Materials $9.83 12 $117.96

Materials cost

$235.92

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$16.63

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$286.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.49

Total project goal

$336.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$336.58

5 Donors

-$233.84

Donations toward project cost

-$218.09

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.75

match offer

-$80.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$68.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$22.74

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$0.00

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Project Activity

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