2016-459-E Arts - Mary Carter Taub - Spring 2016 Arts Grant Agreement

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000wSWn Envelope ID:0CA4CrFO-E4uB-451r-88ur'104053ouCr38 Dibujando Nuestro Pueblo — Community Based Art Project at FPG Bilingiie Artists Mary Carter Taub and Amy Keenan Amago Proposed Project As the U.S. presidential election approaches this fall, immigration is a pressing issue in national and global discussions. We are a nation of immigrants. Some of us have arrived to the U.S. recently and some of us have been rooted here for generations. We can each reflect on our own family's arrival to the U.S. Regardless of when or how we immigrated to the U.S. we all share a common experience: crossing a border to arrive here. Each of our stories uniquely contributes to our community's history of immigration in the past, present and future. Artists Mary Carter Taub and Amy Keenan Amago propose a community based art project in partnership with FPG Bilingue School called Dib ' ndUNUeStrUPbeb/U (Or8wingOUrTbwn) LO give visual voice to the immigration experience of students and their families at Frank Porter Graham Bilingue School, oSponiah/ Eng|iah dual language magnet school in the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools. This drawing-based art p ject will be created during ongoing work sessions in the 2016-17 school year and culminate into a mural that students, their families and the artists will paint in Spring 2017. Dib jando Nuestro Pueblo will be prominently located on a main wall that measures 17'x82' in the school courtyard. The mural will b8b8 the first permanent artwork at FPG Bilingue. Dibujando Nuestro Pueblo seeks to instill pride by reflecting our shared history and by personalizing and humanizing the immigration experience and dispelling notions of "other" by blurring the boundary between "us and them."The project ject will strive to demonstrate that we are fundamentally all the same and equally important in the cultural fabric of our community. This project will pnOvid8 an empowering visual platform for the immigration experience through artistic expression in the FPG Bilingue, Chapel Hill and Carrboro communities. Dibujando Nuestro Pueblo draws on the rich mural history in Latin America which dates back to the Mexican Muralist Movement in the 1920s. During (and after) the Mexican Revolution large- scale wall paintings by Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco and David Siquieros sought to unify a divided culture through expression of community values. Inspired by the Mexican Muralists'work, Dibujando Nuestro Pueblo will be a permanent public artwork that reflects the values of the FPG Bilingue community. Within Orange County this mural project will COnLribUL8LOLh8 local mural program in Chapel Hill, an initiative supported by the Town of Chapel Hill and Chapel Hill Public Arts. This project's grant funding will be cash matched by the FPG PTA. Mary Carter Taub and Amy Keenan Amago will partner with FPG Bilingue School staff— Assistant Principal Jose Nambo and Counselor Barbie Garayua-Tudryn— to collaborate on Dibujando Nuestro Pueblo. The project will be developed over ongoing work sessions from September 2016 through May 2017. Students and their families will work together on individual and collective drawings to tell their immigration story through artistic expression. Mary Carter Taub and Amy Keenan Amago will gather the student/family drawings and arrange them into a composition for the mural which students and families will help paint in Spring 2017. Throughout this p ject there will be a cross-cultural exchange between native Spanish and native English families with students serving as translators for the parents. After Dib ' ndUNUeStrU /zUeb/UiSCOmp|8L8dLh8r8wi|| b88ribbOn-CUtting ceremony and a community-wide party to celebrate the mural. Community Impact Dibujando Nuestro Pueblo will address immigration issues related to FPG Bilingue students, their families, and the Chapel Hi||/C8rrbOnO community. FPG Bilingue is in its third year as a bilingual 2