SOS Art
216 Erkenbrecher Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45229
Part time artist/art educator to lead SOS ART children/youth art workshops
Grant Application:
SOS ART will hire a part time (20 hours a week) artist/art educator to lead and insure throughout the year free and open to all art workshops for children/youth. The workshops will be held weekly and will involve children/youth ages 8 to 16 years. They will serve as a means, in addition to triggering the artistic creativity and expression of the children/youth, to introduce, discuss and create artworks on themes of peace and justice. The artworks produced by the children/youth will be exhibited and open to the public; they will also be posted online on a special page of the SOS ART website.
Goals/Objectives:
To provide classroom/after school opportunities for children to be exposed to, discuss and create artworks related to values of peace and justice through the offering of art teaching classes using, whenever possible, an art curriculum that SOS ART has developed to that effect. For its effective implementation this program would require teacher, promotion, art material, local and art exhibition facility, publications, etc.
Grant Evaluation Report:
The program was overall very successful since, as intended, it reached a large number of children and in a wide variety of settings, and was able to engage them in art classes and art activities linked to a theme of peace and justice; also allowed the results of their works to be exhibited, posted online and shared with the many. This was precisely the goal of the program and it was very well achieved.
Results:
SOS ART hired initially a part time teacher for implementing the program, however, for personal reasons, the hired teacher quit soon thereafter. SOS ART, resorted then instead, and in lieu of rehiring a steady art teacher, to contracting with many qualified art teachers and to arranging to implement the program in various schools, after school programs and art centers settings.
The program was therefore offered, and is still ongoingly being offered, at Frederick Douglass Elementary School, at the Fitton Center for the Arts, at Oak Hills High School, and in various other high schools and after school programs (Bridgetown Middle School, Loveland High School, Mariemont High School, Princeton High School, Seton High School, Butler Tech SOA and Pleasant Ridge CRC) part of the Youth SOS ART exhibit for peace and justice that took place at Oak Hills High School in February 2022.
This led to:
* teaching the SOS ART curriculum on Compassion and Tolerance at Both Frederick Douglass ES and at the Fitton Center for the Arts for children age 8 to 13.
* teaching about racial justice at Oak Hills High School, part of the Race and the City art project implemented by SOS ART (this led to an exhibit in May at Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church(MAPC) and at SOS ART 2022 at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in June/July 2022; pls see submitted images)
* teaching about peace and justice in the settings listed above as part of the Youth SOS ART exhibit (this led to an exhibit in February at Oak Hills High School; pls see link to the online exhibit documented on the SOS ART website:https://sosartcincinnati.com/youth-sos-art-2022/)
* Involving students from both Oak Hills HS and Princeton HS in the Pride Art event and exhibit that SOS ART organized in June 2022, and exhibiting their responsive artworks in both the Pride Art Exhibit at MAPC in June 2022 and at SOS ART 2022 at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in June/July 2022; (pls see submitted images)
Website:
http://www.sosartcincinnati.com Amount: $25,000
Date: September 2021
