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

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000wSWn Envelope ID:0CA4CrFO-E4uB-451r-88ur'104053ouCr38 Spanish/English elementary school. It is the first magnet school in the Chapel Hill Carrboro City School system. The school population is 500 students, comprised of half native Spanish speakers and half native English speakers. The project will r88Ch an immediate audience of about 2,000 residents: students, parents, families and staff at FPG Bilingue. This project will SLn8ngLh8n relationships, build and empower community, and bridge cultural gaps among FPG Bilingue students and families, impacting Orange County and beyond. Dibujando Nuestro Pueblo will be inclusive of all FPG Bilingue community members. According to Pew Research Hispanic Trends Project, over the last decade in the United States, the Southeast has experienced the fastest growing Hispanic/ Latino population. North Carolina was among the ten fastest growing Hispanic/ Latino states from 2000-2011 with population growing 120% from 377,084 to 828,210. The Triangle is home to about 100,000 Hispanics/ Latinos and Chapel Hill and Carrboro, an estimated 7,000. Dibujando Nuestro Pueblo will be the first large-scale public art project reflecting immigration experience and Hispanic culture in the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools. This mural project will positively impact community in Orange County, the Triangle and North Carolina. Artist Experience Artists Mary Carter Taub and Amy Keenan Amago each bring 20 years art experience to Dibujando Nuestro Pueblo and each speaks Spanish, Carter Taub has lived in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic and Keenan Amago's family is from Spain. Carter Taub is an installation artist with experience managing public art p jects by partnering with communities and organizations to realize large-scale projects. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from School of Visual Arts in New York, NY in 1994, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Thunderbird, School of Global Management in Glendale, AZ in 2001. Keenan Amago is a mixed media collage artist and has experience working as a professional arts educator, primarily as an art teacher in elementary schools. She currently works for the North Carolina Museum of Art as a teaching artist. She holds a Master of Art Education (MA) from Buffalo State College in Buffalo, NY in 2004. Selected below are several projects to demonstrate Carter Taub and Keenan Amago's experience creating community-based public art using durable and low maintenance materials with high standards of quality. All of the p jects were completed on time and within budget. Los Muertos was a community-based, collaborative art project between Mary Carter Taub and FPG Bilingue in 2013. Carter Taub worked with 50 students over one week to build a temporary mural made of brightly colored tape to celebrate El Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and reflect the community's shared history in the past, present and future. Featured in the courtyard at FPG Bilingue, Los Muertos was located next to a tree that served as a guiding metaphor for the p ject. A tree is comprised of many roots— deep and anchoring, and more recently sprouted and closer to the surface— both are equally important in supporting a happy, healthy tree. Much like the tree, students created the "raices" (roots) of the artwork by connecting taped lines to form an interconnected web of roots. Los Muertos addressed the importance of knowing our roots, and where we come from, to better understand where we are going. Each person had a unique story to contribute to the community's shared history and Los Muertos visually represented this sentiment. Dib ' ndDyVUeSDDPUeb62vvi|| b88nOppOrtUniLyLO work with the FPG Bilingue community again and to delve deeper as the project will take p|8C8 throughout the school year not just one week. 3