2017-056-E Arts - Northside Elementary School - Fall 2016 Arts Grant Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:71 71A1 F5-8FF6-4COD-9E6C-2224164C181 D Northside Elementary School Arts in Education Grant Application 2016 Alder Keene Biography: I grew up in rural New Hampshire and attended the Monadnock Waldorf School. My early childhood education gave me a natural understanding and appreciation for the arts,which continues to have a reverberating impact on my life. My deep interest in the arts led me to Baltimore,to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art(MICA)in order to study Painting and Art Education. Upon graduation, I joined the Community Arts Collaborative (CAC), a branch of Americorps,in Baltimore. During my twelve months at CAC, I developed an after school arts program at Barclay Elementary Middle School.This program focused on ways that art could bring attention to current,local issues within Barclay School,and the larger Baltimore area. During the middle of my term, I received a grant for a project called Speak Out.The 15 student participants of Speak Out learned about photography and how it could be used as a tool to advocate for education. During my time in CAC I learned how to collaborate with different community organizations and groups of students to build a program that promoted advocacy through art In 2013 I moved to Chapel Hill to be the first visual art teacher at Northside Elementary School.As a first year teacher,I was nominated by my administration for the Teacher of Promise Award.This is an award given to one new teacher in the district every year. Throughout my two and a half years teaching at Northside, I have maintained my intrigue of how the arts can reach beyond the art classroom. I have organized opportunities for my 5th graders to collaborate with local artists on community-based art projects that have gone up within Chapel Hill. I continue to use art as way for students to engage in the community,think critically about local issues and connect with core subjects areas.