2019-689-E Arts - East CH High School arts grant

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DocuSign Envelope ID:9F230193-BDC6-477C-B721-F924559937C6 Project End Date (no December 20, 2019 later than June 30, 2020) Project Goals The goal of this project is to bring more diversity to my program and to create a high quality arts experience that most students would not otherwise have: to learn directly from a professional potter. Related to my curriculum, this addresses two of the NC Visual Arts Essential Standard goals: 1) for students to understand the global, historical, societal, and cultural contexts of the visual arts. 2) for students to create art using a variety of tools, media, and processes --specifically wheel throwing and the Raku process. Another goal, specifically related to addressing the school's minority student achievement gap, is for my African American students to express that the experience had a positive impact on them personally. Cirruculum and While I am able to teach students the basic skills for wheel throwing, Enrichment the expertise and finesse of the craft can really only be communicated by a professional potter like Ms. Hayes. She can also speak to the practical and business side of life as an artist of the community. At my school I am only able to expose my students to the process of electric kiln firing. This project provides students the exciting experience of Raku firing. Additionally, given my school district's significant minority student achievement gap, I know that my students of color need to feel recognized, important, and empowered to be successful in the visual arts in this predominantly white school. Bringing in a professional African American artist to enrich the wheel throwing component of my ceramics curriculum is a powerful way to address this need for diversity and to counter my students' misconception that artists are "white hippies from Asheville." Not only will my students develop their throwing skills, and participate in a Raku firing, but through support of this grant, my students of color will see themselves represented in this successful role model and realize a future in the arts is possible. Audience Description This project would impact roughly 120 students ranging in grades 9- 12 at East Chapel Hill High School. The school's student demographics are: 52%white, 20%Asian, 11% Hispanic, 10% black/African American, 7% multiracial. My classes tend to have a slightly higher average of African American, multiracial and Hispanic students. 17%of students in the school are in the Free and Reduced Lunch Program. Location Description East Chapel Hill High School ceramics classroom, and Liberty Arts Studio for firing