My students need paint, canvas, easels, paint markers, glue sticks and scissors for their art lessons.
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My Students
Art is intelligence having fun said Albert Einstein. My students are eager to use their imagination to create art. However sadly enough our school cannot afford to purchase some of the most basic art supplies. I would like to offer to these children a worthy pathway to creativity.
My school is situated in a high poverty area.
The buildings are old but organized in a pleasant open air plan. It is populated by vivacious children who are mild mannered and eager to learn. Most of my students are first generation immigrants. They come from impoverished communities where schools barely had the minimum to teach core subjects, let alone the visual arts. Hence art is a foreign subject to most of them. They come to me with stars in their eyes mesmerized by the possibilities that art has to offer. Discovering the visual arts fuels their imagination and opens up their mind.
My Project
I plan on using these art materials for many lessons throughout the school year. For instance in one lesson the young ones will use scissors, glue sticks, colored pencils and markers to create collages. Their older counterparts will at the same time learn to create water color paintings using the water color papers as a way to introduce them to painting. In a subsequent set of lessons the second and third graders will experiment mostly with markers and some basic water color techniques on water color papers. Meanwhile the fourth and fifth graders will start using acrylic paints on canvas boards. Lastly, the primary grades will use the water color papers to create small paintings. On the other hand the intermediate levels will learn to use acrylic paint on a stretched canvas set on easels.
To my students painting opens up a brand new world to discover colors, values and shapes.
This will most likely be their first experience with the visual arts. I want it to be an impactful encounter since most of the students have to make up for previous years of not being exposed to art. This project will allow them to not only develop their motor skills but also their sense of aesthetic and more importantly their creativity. Imagination is more important than knowledge-Albert Einstein
More than 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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