2013-006 EDC-Arts - Franklin Street Arts Collective dba Frank Gallery for Fall 2012 Art Grant Agrement $1,500

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2 Community Wall Through our community outreach program,the Community Wall Gallery showcases a diversity of artists and community non-profit health and educational oriented programs. We host exhibits with seniors from the Chapel Hill Senior Center;children from McDougle Middle School and the Kidzu museum; and the Stories Through Murals Project, Dominican painters using art to build bridges between nations. In conjunction with the FRANK::inFocus festival, we hosted multimedia experimental video and sound installations from the UNC MFA graduate students and plan an exhibition with Elon Academy pre-college high minority students. Special Events and Workshops With membership and grant support,FRANK offers art critique, workshops, and guest presentations on topics ranging from health and wellness to special learning styles and new technological developments in communication and science. For young children and families: Member artists work with Kidzu, a Chapel Hill interactive children's museum, to bring programs to youngsters up to age S at both Kidzu and FRANK locations. In conjunction with the FRANK::inFocus festival, member artist and educator Barbara Tyroler taught a parent education workshop at Kidzu Museum on How to photograph your Child, emphasizing meaning and memory associated with family photographs. For teens: The Sacrificial Poets, an outstanding local youth group created a physical representation of their poetic works on our Community Wall in collaboration with FRANK fiber artist, Peg Gignoux. They have returned twice to perform their poetry. In collaboration with FRANK photographer artist, Barbara Tyroler, at-risk high achieving teens from a pre-college community programs, the Elon Academy, took a field trip to meet the gallery director and artists and to have their photography critiqued by FRANK members.They will return in spring 2013 with grant support from the Heim Foundation and Elon University. For health care patients: The Community Art Wall at FRANK has hosted work from patients at the psychiatric, oncology and hematology units of UNC Health Care System as well as those in the pediatric ward at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. We have project proposals underway to include Wrap Your Head Around It coordinated by fiber artist, Peg Gignoux in partnership with the Cornucopia Cancer Support Center to create hand- dyed scarves that feature original poetry exploring the Heroic Journey of cancer patients, survivors and their caregivers. During the past year we have presented Brushes with Life, a community health organizations to show works created by artists with mental illness. We plan to partner with the CCancer program,an expressive therapy through photography project for teens, at the UNC Hospitals. During the FRANK::inFocus festival we hosted a graduate student from UNC School of Public Health to describe her experiences in Malawi photographing and documenting mothers and daughters in a fistula clinic.