The Clay for Kids Auction is OVER!
July 10-19
Our goal for the KIDS FOR CLAY Auction was $5,000 and we raised $4,452 (89%!). We want to thank the many people who placed 258 bids over the last ten days to help create a new clay curriculum for DC Public Schools and enable hundreds of DC Public School kids to discover the magic of clay next school year.
If you weren't able to make the auction, you can still donate to Community Clay and help support our new expanded program with DC Public Schools this fall by going here.
For those bid winners, we will be in touch soon!
If you weren't able to make the auction, you can still donate to Community Clay and help support our new expanded program with DC Public Schools this fall by going here.
For those bid winners, we will be in touch soon!
More About Our Plans this Fall with DC Public Schools:
Our CLAY FOR KIDS auction of artist pots helped to fund a major expansion of Community Clay into DC Public Schools. We raised $4,452 to spread the wonder of clay to teachers and students through DC Public Schools this fall.
The Community Clay Program would like to dramatically increase the number of students we reach! To do this we are partnering with DC Public Schools for their fall year. We want to connect with the teachers to train and assist them in how to manage a clay studio within the classroom setting and create lesson plans regarding clay and ceramics. To reach as many students as possible, we need to fund the curriculum development and the materials to support each classroom and lesson.
While we hope to have a long-term on campus presence in our partnership with the District of Columbia Public School System, we understand that being in a physical classroom will likely be on hold due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Our short term plan is to give students an opportunity to work with clay either at home or in the classroom.
We are fundraising to create a series of ceramics teaching supports for the art teachers of DC Public Schools, and clay kits with tools for students to use at home or in school. This will include creating lesson plans, professional development for teachers, and instructional videos. Please consider supporting our Community Clay program! And giving as many students as we can an opportunity to be creative with clay!
If you would like to support this program, please go here:
Our CLAY FOR KIDS auction of artist pots helped to fund a major expansion of Community Clay into DC Public Schools. We raised $4,452 to spread the wonder of clay to teachers and students through DC Public Schools this fall.
The Community Clay Program would like to dramatically increase the number of students we reach! To do this we are partnering with DC Public Schools for their fall year. We want to connect with the teachers to train and assist them in how to manage a clay studio within the classroom setting and create lesson plans regarding clay and ceramics. To reach as many students as possible, we need to fund the curriculum development and the materials to support each classroom and lesson.
While we hope to have a long-term on campus presence in our partnership with the District of Columbia Public School System, we understand that being in a physical classroom will likely be on hold due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Our short term plan is to give students an opportunity to work with clay either at home or in the classroom.
We are fundraising to create a series of ceramics teaching supports for the art teachers of DC Public Schools, and clay kits with tools for students to use at home or in school. This will include creating lesson plans, professional development for teachers, and instructional videos. Please consider supporting our Community Clay program! And giving as many students as we can an opportunity to be creative with clay!
If you would like to support this program, please go here:
About Community Clay!
by the District Clay Center
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Community Clay! by the District Clay Center brings clay and ceramics to the youth of DC, with a focus on Wards 7 and 8.
Through our partnership with ArtReach GW, Community Clay! has brought the joy of clay to 46 students ages 8-16 at no cost to them, with 35% of students returning to take the class again. Of these students, not a single one had the chance to work with clay in their school. Among other skills, our students learned how to work with coils, slabs, pinch pots, attaching clay together, glazing, texturing, slump molds, abstract sculpture, wheel throwing and sgraffito. Students gained experience making both functional and decorative works, including a field trip to the District Clay Center for a studio tour and some work on the wheel. Returning students created advanced projects which built on prior class experiences. Each term culminated in a showcase of student work at the art gallery in THEARC. “I enjoy it because it’s really fun and it’s really happy to see our own concept and we get to paint and decorate our art and make all kinds of stuff.” - Community Clay! student “I like the more challenging projects because it expands your mind.” - Community Clay! student “It helps all the stress come out. It makes me happy to see all of y’all’s faces every day.” - Community Clay! student For the coming year, District Clay Center is working to expand our programming to reach more students and get more kids involved with clay. We are developing a new partnership with DC Public Schools, working alongside public school art teachers to help deepen students’ experience with clay. Heading into the 2020-2021 school year, we will work with DCPS to develop clay projects for students to do, whether learning in the classroom or at home. As the needs of the upcoming school year become clear, this will likely include teacher training and assistance with materials that students can use while learning from home. Our Community Clay! Program is run under District Clay Center's 501(c)3 arm, the District Clay Educational Fund (DCEF). All donations to the Fund and our Community Clay! program are tax deductible. |
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