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Ms. Pace from Los Angeles, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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What Kind of Society Cuts the Arts? Help us Get Supplies!

My students need to have the materials to create art via sculpting, sketching with charcoal, and using watercolors.

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My Students

Do you remember art being only crayons, construction paper, scissors and glue, with an occasional foray into tempera paints or watercolors? Well, things haven't changed much, because that's pretty much all my school has available for kids to use as they learn the elements of art.

My students are all low income, second language learners, going to school in the inner city where opportunities are few and far between.

Crushed by the culture of poverty and all that it doesn't offer, coupled with our current education culture of everything being about test scores, my students spend 90% of their week learning Language Arts and Math. We have turned around the notion of an education so far that our district just recently announced the CLOSURE of the entire Arts Branch! Clearly, the message that art is not important is being sent out loud and clear. But you can't crush a kid's spirit and desire to create. My students long to explore all areas of art but we are handcuffed by the limited materials offered in a typical inner city elementary school.

My Project

I am trained in the arts and can give my students great experiences, but I need the tools. I remember carving things out of balsa wood as a kid and how amazed I was to create something from a block of wood. Now they have balsa FOAM available...so soft that you can use almost anything to shape it and not have to worry about using sharp knives and other unsafe tools. I want my kids to have those same awesome moments as they make something out of nothing. I also remember how exciting it was to draw something that looked 3D because I had learned to shade with charcoal. That led me to explore still lifes, landscapes, and portraits and it made me better as an artist, and more aware of art in general. Experiences like these formed me into an artistic person on many levels. I want that feeling of creation and artistic beauty to find its way into my students. That just doesn't happen without experience and exposure. I want them to leave 4th grade with some real art experiences!

Nothing on this planet can ever replace experience nor a good foundation.

Our society will be severely lacking in the future if we continue to discount the arts education. What kind of imbalanced society will we be? What will we leave behind for the generations after us if we don't educate and expose our kids to the arts? I don't mean to be overly dramatic, but with all the obstacles my students already face, something as seemingly small as art supplies can have a truly life changing effect.

Ms. Pace First Street Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Los Angeles, CA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
FACTIS EX SOFT ERASR/ERASER • Blick Art Materials $0.65 35 $22.75
FOUNDTN CHARCOAL PAD/WHT 9X12 24SHT • Blick Art Materials $4.39 4 $17.56
BLICK CHARCOAL/WILLOW HARD 12/BX • Blick Art Materials $3.81 4 $15.24
BLICK CHARCOAL/VINE MED CANISTER • Blick Art Materials $44.81 1 $44.81
CRAYOLA WC PENCIL/240CT CLASSPACK • Blick Art Materials $47.25 1 $47.25
BALSA FOAM II/PROJECT SQUARE 48/PK • Blick Art Materials $23.99 1 $23.99
BALSA FOAM II/CARVING BLOCK 36/PK • Blick Art Materials $48.66 1 $48.66

Materials cost

$220.26

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $20.15

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$278.71

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$49.18

Total project goal

$327.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $327.89

4 Donors

-$327.89

Donations toward project cost

-$278.71

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.18

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