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Apr. 5th, 2004 01:13 pmPosted from CNN.com:
Communities rally to supplement art for students
Monday, April 5, 2004 Posted: 10:13 AM EDT (1413 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two dozen youngsters bundle up in their winter coats and head out the door of Public School 191. About 10 minutes later, they arrive at a small studio a few blocks away to take a weekly art class.
There are no complaints, though, as the fifth-graders trudge through the chilly Manhattan streets. In fact, they consider themselves lucky: P.S. 191 does not have an art teacher, an art room or art courses. And unlike other schools in the country where art no longer is taught, students from P.S. 191 have a studio where they can paint, sculpt and draw.
They pile into a white room and sit at four large tables covered with brown construction paper. Several mirrors and six packages of Cray-pas -- a blend of paint and crayon -- are spread across each work space.
Teacher Damilla Miller talks to her students about the self portraits they will create. She refers to the children as "artists" and discusses their "choices" of color and "shape" as they try to portray themselves. She holds up portraits by van Gogh and Brooklyn artist Rafael Tufino to demonstrate different uses of color and texture.
"Your tools are your hands," Miller tells the class. "Focus your imagination and use colors you wouldn't normally use. Think about what is around you."
Meiling Jabbaar, a thin, soft-spoken 10-year-old with sandy hair, pulls up her sleeves and settles in to work. She studies her face in the mirror as she blends bits of blue and yellow, trying to find the right mix to reflect the light browns of her cheekbones.
"I'm learning to look at myself in the light and see colors other than just skin," she says.
Public School 191's weekly art classes are run by Studio in a School, a program that works with New York City schools to offer classes both at the small studio and in classrooms.
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Communities rally to supplement art for students
Monday, April 5, 2004 Posted: 10:13 AM EDT (1413 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two dozen youngsters bundle up in their winter coats and head out the door of Public School 191. About 10 minutes later, they arrive at a small studio a few blocks away to take a weekly art class.
There are no complaints, though, as the fifth-graders trudge through the chilly Manhattan streets. In fact, they consider themselves lucky: P.S. 191 does not have an art teacher, an art room or art courses. And unlike other schools in the country where art no longer is taught, students from P.S. 191 have a studio where they can paint, sculpt and draw.
They pile into a white room and sit at four large tables covered with brown construction paper. Several mirrors and six packages of Cray-pas -- a blend of paint and crayon -- are spread across each work space.
Teacher Damilla Miller talks to her students about the self portraits they will create. She refers to the children as "artists" and discusses their "choices" of color and "shape" as they try to portray themselves. She holds up portraits by van Gogh and Brooklyn artist Rafael Tufino to demonstrate different uses of color and texture.
"Your tools are your hands," Miller tells the class. "Focus your imagination and use colors you wouldn't normally use. Think about what is around you."
Meiling Jabbaar, a thin, soft-spoken 10-year-old with sandy hair, pulls up her sleeves and settles in to work. She studies her face in the mirror as she blends bits of blue and yellow, trying to find the right mix to reflect the light browns of her cheekbones.
"I'm learning to look at myself in the light and see colors other than just skin," she says.
Public School 191's weekly art classes are run by Studio in a School, a program that works with New York City schools to offer classes both at the small studio and in classrooms.
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