Past projects 5
Adapted Primary Art Studio: Organization and Teaching for Artistic Behavior
Funded Dec 18, 2024I wanted to send a heartfelt thanks. My students are going to be thrilled and amazed. Kicking off 2025 with hope and creative joy will fill hearts with great inspiration. This donation brings much more than materials into the hands of kids, these are all potential learning pathways teaching the importance of taking creative risk, strengthening fine motor abilities and building multiple solutions in creative ways.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marian
Sparking Ideas and Building Skills in the Creative Process
Funded Jan 3, 2024It is my honor each day to work with students through such a creative process. Simple materials like the watercolors, and gel crayons have brought a lot of joy, and power to our students. They are proud of their work. And the materials in the art studio can feel like they have tapped into something special and different than what they have access to in their classrooms and at home.
Thank you so much for lighting up their eyes. For helping to bring artistic conversations and inspiring vocabulary like vibrant, vivid, contrast, bold. I am hearing so many conversations about how their next projects. "I can't believe I made this" "Ms. Marian, I am going to be an artist."
With Great Appreciation,
Marian Fink”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marian
Adapt, Access, and Create: Personal Agency in Art
Funded Mar 19, 2023Our most highly impacted students at our school are our special education students in our distinct program. Many struggle with fine motor grip, sensory aversion, muscle strength, mobility, not to mention social and emotional supports. These students often times have difficulty joining in art with their peers for these reasons.
When a district equips an art room and any new classroom for that matter, it is seldom that they have these students in mind. Adaptive pencil,marker, crayon grips, scissors, and other adaptive materials that are essential for supporting these students with their general education neurotypical peers are often an after thought. Materials that engage these students in play, like puppets and various materials that serve to strengthen coordination like looms, and adaptive paintbrushes allow these students to create alongside their classmates. Thank you so much for helping me provide these materials and experiences in my art room. Students are engaged, and growing their skills both physical and emotional.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marian
Teaching for Artistic Behavior: Sculpture Studio
Funded Dec 24, 2021Wow, what an amazing few months this has been! I want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts. You have given our students the supplies to help them bring to life their imaginations. They constructed with boxes, created with polymer and hot glued and taped together 3D sculptures like Dragons, swords, and dollhouses. It has been wonderfully busy exploring the materials.
When the students first saw the new materials their minds immediately began buzzing with ideas. I had students list the different things they imagined building. They keep these lists in creative group journals so that they can go back to reference their ideas.
Next steps will be more explorations. We have had so much discussion around stability in sculpture, balance etc. In coming projects, students will begin to make plans and blueprints before diving into materials to create.
Thank you again for your amazing generosity. Our students are overjoyed and grateful for your help as we stretch our creative thinking and build our wildest dreams.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marian
Stronger Together Through Creative Art
Funded May 17, 2021Wow, what a year it was! Amidst all the stress and changes in the 2020-2021 school year, we ended with a creative explosion thanks to your generosity and support.
Many of our students are unable to afford to send their children to enrichment classes of any type and during a year of COVID quarantine, classes were not an option for many at all. Art was not an offering at our school aside from what the classroom teacher was able to make happen in the classroom. So this was an important opportunity.
It was such a gift to bring local teaching artists, paints and canvases and murals to all of our students whether they were joining the class remotely or in person. The artists were engaging, compassionate and inspiring.
All students displayed their painted canvases in our first annual art walk across the school grounds the last week of school. An amazing community mural was unveiled that our younger students worked on with a muralist, and families were finally able to see some of the beautiful pieces that students showcased. It was an amazing success and a much needed joyful ending to a year that was so challenging and isolating for many.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Marian