2024-584-E-Arts Commission-Franklin Street Arts Collective-Funding for FRANK Gallery's Youth Art Group outreach program

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How will the project/program be publicized and promoted to reach intended participants? The Program is publicized through the families of our current students, refugee organizations, Kidzu Children's Museum, Transplanting Traditions Karen Community Farm, The Triangle Community Foundation, FRANK Fund raising events and at the Durham Refugee Fair this year to be held on June 29. Our program is best recruited through person to person encounters and we have also found that families bring other family members to the group once they see what we offer. W e also have younger siblings of current Group members who are eager to join when they become ten. One of our problems is the issue of scheduling. W e have to meet when the students are free from church, mosque, school and family obligations and when the gallery space is available and closed to the public. Currently Sunday mornings from 8:30am to 11:30am work well but present problems for prospective Ukrainian and Afghan students who belong to Ukrainian Church groups or mosque Sunday Schools. W e may have to adjust our class schedule.to increase more diversity. W e do post a lot of the current students' work and activities on social media and this has brought us some students through non profit volunteers. Another issue is the impermanence of recent refugees' circumstances-the Karen Community is now an established local community but recent refugee groups still move a lot with work or to be closer to family. W e in turn do benefit from such refugee migrations and two of our current students started life in the USA living in south Dakota. How will you evaluate the success of the program? W e will evaluate the success of the Program by the number of culturally diverse students attracted to it and by the educational successes our arts and educational enrichment activities continue to deliver. W e will also examine the impact of paying the Program's teachers on FRANK Gallery's efforts to become more DEI compliant and consequently our ability to attract more culturally diverse artists to our membership, Board and ergo more granting opportunities benefiting this Program and all our non profit endeavors. W e currently have students from a number of school systems where art education is an elective. Our Program, and particularly our concentration of portfolio development, is very attractive to such students. W e will continue to evaluate each student's portfolio and artistic development -every student has a portfolio where all their work is stored, and the portfolio's potential value to a student's school curriculum choices, college entrance or jobs. As noted, we have a Group critique after every class. This constant dialogue helps students personal skills focus and grow. It also helps us with Program planning. W e serve breakfast before every class during which we talk about the past week's events and make future plans for outings and other educational enrichment experiences. Involving the group in discussion and decision making is integral to our goal of offering a relevant program to refugee youths. Being a refugee is not easy and our Program with in-built understanding and twelve years experience has, to date, proved successful. PROJECT/PROGRAM BUDGET Please fill out the charts below with your project's expenses and income. Use the "Explanation" box to offer details for each category. NOTE: The Total Cash Expense must equal the Total Cash Income. Click here to view a sample budget. Project Expense Expenses-english-rev ised.xlsx Project Income Income-english-rev ised.xlsx Resumes of artists/administrators RESUME_Nerys_Lev y_1_003.pdf Finer_resume_2024_pdf.pdf Docusign Envelope ID: CBE41939-719A-4696-9DEF-A5A8E3BD2E8B