| Program Description | Our lessons focus on painting, sculpting, sketching, dance/movement, singing, traditional arts, eco-literacy and urban culture-intertwined with common core standards. Special projects are shared school-wide throughout the year and saved to display again as decorations for our annual year-end Culture Night event. Through this program, K-5 students learn about different ethnicities that correspond to cultural and historical monthly celebrations. Each presentation begins with a history lesson of the group we are focusing on and is followed with a complimentary art project. Our school has a culturally diverse core group of parents, grandparents and relatives who are professional working artists and social justice advocates. Many of them make time to help facilitate our projects to ensure authenticity. They are also invited and encouraged to give presentations during school assemblies.
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