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Location Description The FRANK Youth Art Group uses FRANK Gallery, Carrboro as its base and <br />classroom. This has always been the case since the Group's inception and at our <br />two previous locations in Chapel Hill. W e assemble tables, chairs and easels at <br />every session and the students get inspiration from the work of scores of the <br />diverse local artists being shown at the gallery. These include paintings, mixed <br />media, photographs, ceramics, jewelry, furniture and textile art. W e take the <br />students on tours of our eight annual gallery exhibitions and whenever possible <br />get them to meet the exhibiting artists. Often the students choose our gallery's art <br />as inspiration for their own work. W e can store different media in the gallery's <br />back room making it possible for the students to work in oils, acrylics, print making <br />and drawing. Our students are also developing ceramics skills and are taught by <br />FRANK ceramic artist Natalie Boorman at her Orange County studio. Natalie hand <br />builds and pit fires her work and the students have, over the years, helped her pit <br />fire their pots and empty the fire pit after firing. As part of the arts educational <br />process we expose the students to exhibitions at local museums, particularly the <br />Ackland, Nasher and the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. They are well <br />schooled in museum visits and have learned how to sketch on site. The Group <br />has been taught to respect art work at our regular teaching location and they are <br />very popular with museum guards who are impressed by their earnest and careful <br />engagement with the art on show. Now that we are re engaging with Kidzu <br />Children's Museum it is envisaged that the Group will work in the Museum's <br />Makery once a month. Our Group's teacher, Lah Htoo Boh is the Lead teacher at <br />the Kidzu Makery and so it will be interesting to see the work that emanates from <br />that location's found objects and recycled materials.. The Group also visits the <br />Horace W illiams House art venue regularly and enjoys working both in that <br />nineteenth century house and art gallery with its seven annual exhibits and its <br />garden filled with ancient trees and bamboo. Obviously it would be good to have a <br />proper studio where our students could engage in work with a wider range of <br />media without having to put things away after every class. Our move to Carrboro <br />has meant that transporting students continues to be and issue. Frances Hamer <br />picks up some Chapel Hill students but whenever possible parents are <br />encouraged to transport their children to and from classes. Parents often arrive at <br />the end of the Sunday class to watch the student critique which is a group activity <br />involving all the Group's students and teachers aimed at greater student sharing <br />and language development. Because of insurance issues FRANK artists and <br />Board members are not allowed to transport students and so Frances Hamer's <br />invaluable contribution as the Project's driver has, over the years, been integral to <br />the Group's functioning. <br />Docusign Envelope ID: CBE41939-719A-4696-9DEF-A5A8E3BD2E8B