My students need "dotting styluses" - tools used for stylized painting projects (mandalas, scenes, canvases and stones).
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My Students
As a public high school teacher in Hawaii, my students could not be more diverse. They range in age from fourteen to eighteen and come from a variety of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. We are a Title I school, so many of our students are below the poverty line and don't have access to extra-curricular art, music or athletic programs. My "Arts and Crafts" elective is a project-based class offered within the school day at virtually no cost to the student.
As a public school teacher, I've noticed my students thrive on projects that allow them to use their creativity to bring a subject to life.
Many students have a predisposition to the arts, but it can be difficult to fund art electives or for students to have time for an arts elective within their school day. With support from our school, community and organizations like Donors Choose, my students will be exposed to a variety of artistic expressions that they might not have access to otherwise. I believe it means a lot to my students when they feel that a variety of adults and community members contributed to their education and enrichment.
My Project
"Dotting Styluses" are precise instruments that allow an artist to form perfect dots of varying sizes. Essentially looking like small rods with metal balls at the end, the artist can dip styluses into paint to create even, uniform dots. Because the tools are so precise and pick up paint so well, dots appear raised, as though they are three dimensional.
Dotting Styluses are relatively inexpensive and have many uses - stylized "dot" paintings, shaping clay, manicure painting, and my favorite, striking "dot mandalas." Mandala designs are usually circular and can resemble snowflakes, circular stained-glass windows, flowers or abstract shapes.
"Dot mandalas" are made up of hundreds or even thousands of colorful dots - large and small - which come together to form a spectacular round design. Without stylus tools, an artist would struggle to make the tiny, uniform dots a stylus can, especially on small surfaces like stones or fingernails.
Thirty stylus sets would provide every student in my "Arts and Crafts" elective a sufficient set of tools to do the many dot painting projects I hope to do this school year. In addition, if properly cared for, a class set of styluses can be used for many years by future "Arts and Crafts" students, so the impact is far reaching.
Please visit/follow my Facebook page "Kealakehe Arts and Crafts" to see photos of my original "dot mandala" creations - all projects which I hope to share with my students.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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