My students need Chroma Acrylic Mural Paint, canvas and brush set to continue the tradition of creating murals for our school while our school is being torn down and rebuilt.
$997 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.
The students here at Eastwood are a unique group of young adults that thrive not only on the academic and athletic level, but artistically as well.
Our students' excellent level of performance is in stride with students from around the state despite our area's lack of resources and deteriorating school.
Even though I would like to continue talking about our campus wide accomplishments, I would like to focus on our small art department.
The Art Department only has two teachers to reach the need for art instruction on our campus. Even though our art program is small we make waves in a big way. Our school has repeatedly had students advance from V.A.S.E. Regional (Visual Art Scholastic Event in Texas) to the state level. At the State Level we have had Gold Seal winners for the past 4 years, which is the highest level you can go in our big state.
My Project
Our High School is known for their strong traditions. One of those traditions is allowing advanced art students to paint a mural on wall panels at our campus. Our school is in the process of being torn down and built completely from the bottom up. Part of the construction process includes tearing down a set of over 20 mural panels our art students have created over the years. Although we are excited about having a brand new school, during the building process our entire campus will be housed in portables for the next two years. Even though we cannot save our past murals, the Art Department would like to continue its tradition of painting murals. We would like to use the Nova Gel/Canvas Mural method to continue our tradition during this difficult time. The method consists of painting the murals on gesso canvas instead of a wall structure. The canvas allows the painting to be mobile and can be hung anywhere, like a portable, using various installation methods that are as temporary as hanging it with rope like a banner or using Nova Gel to permanently install it on a wall, like on our new campus. The murals would consist of the following 3 themes, showcasing students' artistic skills, illustrating students' creative writing poems, and various campus imagery.
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