2018 Sonoma Valley Public School Grants
Dunbar School
Dunbar Elementary is continuing their successful Art at Lunch Program. The program serves approximately 160 students in grades 1-5 by enriching the lunch time with regular access to a variety of art experiences. The Art at Lunch Program offers students six art centers which enable them the opportunity to explore and be exposed to a variety of mediums and techniques while also fostering skills of collaboration, problem solving, communication, and self-expression.
Dunbar Elementary is continuing their successful Art at Lunch Program. The program serves approximately 160 students in grades 1-5 by enriching the lunch time with regular access to a variety of art experiences. The Art at Lunch Program offers students six art centers which enable them the opportunity to explore and be exposed to a variety of mediums and techniques while also fostering skills of collaboration, problem solving, communication, and self-expression.
El Verano School
Art in Action Program, Poetry and Art public art project, Individual/group poems memorialized on solar panel, teacher, paint supplies, artist.
Art in Action Program, Poetry and Art public art project, Individual/group poems memorialized on solar panel, teacher, paint supplies, artist.
Flowery School
Flowery Elementary School piloted the Art in Action curriculum based visual arts program for Grades 1-3 with 2016 Sonoma Plein Air Foundation funding, and continues the program in the current school year, starting with Kindergarten and providing sequential art experiences for students as they advance grade by grade. The abundance of resources to support the artistic genre, including art history, strong visual support, and highly engaging and-age appropriate projects were excellent for our students.
Flowery Elementary School piloted the Art in Action curriculum based visual arts program for Grades 1-3 with 2016 Sonoma Plein Air Foundation funding, and continues the program in the current school year, starting with Kindergarten and providing sequential art experiences for students as they advance grade by grade. The abundance of resources to support the artistic genre, including art history, strong visual support, and highly engaging and-age appropriate projects were excellent for our students.
Prestwood School
Clay, drawing, painting and instructors, puppets, basket weaving, print making, 3-D sculptures,
Clay, drawing, painting and instructors, puppets, basket weaving, print making, 3-D sculptures,
Sassarini School
Local artists’ fees, clay, glaze, oil pastels, water colors, tempera, photographic experience in grades 4-5, SDC students.
Local artists’ fees, clay, glaze, oil pastels, water colors, tempera, photographic experience in grades 4-5, SDC students.
Altamira Middle School
Pictographs and petroglyphs, Renaissance techniques (large painting in VanGogh style), ceramics, color wheels, paint in Thibaud style, leather bracelets, wall hangings and coasters, field trip to SFMOMA.
Pictographs and petroglyphs, Renaissance techniques (large painting in VanGogh style), ceramics, color wheels, paint in Thibaud style, leather bracelets, wall hangings and coasters, field trip to SFMOMA.
Adele Harrison Middle School
Native American petroglyphs, rock carving, techniques from Renaissance, origami paper bookets and birds (copper tape and LED lighting), ceramics, paint in triplets (Thibaud), Japanese NoTan paper art, SFMOMA trip.
Native American petroglyphs, rock carving, techniques from Renaissance, origami paper bookets and birds (copper tape and LED lighting), ceramics, paint in triplets (Thibaud), Japanese NoTan paper art, SFMOMA trip.
Sonoma Charter School
Art projects
Art projects
Woodland Star School
Woodworking, sewing, batiks using natural dyes, frame stretchers, oil pastels, wool, embroidery needles, yarn, felting project.
Woodworking, sewing, batiks using natural dyes, frame stretchers, oil pastels, wool, embroidery needles, yarn, felting project.
Special Education Classes
Grades 6-12, tye dye, felt, sketch books, hammers, pliers, canvases,
Grades 6-12, tye dye, felt, sketch books, hammers, pliers, canvases,
Sonoma Valley High School
Bas relief sculptures, clay totem, landscape diorama, lino-cuts, stencils, pinch pots, coil vessels, figure, & surrealist line drawing, printmaking, box assemblage, pin hole cameras, darkroom processing, social/digital photography, photo collage. Supplies: sketchbooks, safety glasses, glazes, assorted acrylics, lino plates, inks,charcoal pencils, vinyl, ceramic wheels pottery tools, film, batteries, mat boards,frames, SFMOMA, SVMA, diRosa, Pier 24 field trips.
Bas relief sculptures, clay totem, landscape diorama, lino-cuts, stencils, pinch pots, coil vessels, figure, & surrealist line drawing, printmaking, box assemblage, pin hole cameras, darkroom processing, social/digital photography, photo collage. Supplies: sketchbooks, safety glasses, glazes, assorted acrylics, lino plates, inks,charcoal pencils, vinyl, ceramic wheels pottery tools, film, batteries, mat boards,frames, SFMOMA, SVMA, diRosa, Pier 24 field trips.
Creekside High School
Make & donate blankets to Sonoma Blanket Brigade, “permanent but changeable” outdoor art for campus to be mounted on exterior walls in the garden and back walls, and kits, acrylic paint, raw canvas, wood, nails, glue.
Make & donate blankets to Sonoma Blanket Brigade, “permanent but changeable” outdoor art for campus to be mounted on exterior walls in the garden and back walls, and kits, acrylic paint, raw canvas, wood, nails, glue.
2017 Community Grants
Sonoma Community Center
Painting activity at Plaza during SPAF festival, Scholarships for Mentoring Alliance art lessons (mentees), and Trashion Fashion, Clay Day Camp and Teen Clay Camp with new ceramics-in house artist, sculpture and encaustic materials, paint, clay, and glaze.
Painting activity at Plaza during SPAF festival, Scholarships for Mentoring Alliance art lessons (mentees), and Trashion Fashion, Clay Day Camp and Teen Clay Camp with new ceramics-in house artist, sculpture and encaustic materials, paint, clay, and glaze.
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
Bringing 4-5 grades in SVSD, 200 hours of instruction, 29 classrooms, 800 students, 3,200
individual art experiences, class size 24-34, themed around Joseph de Lappe, art supplies, teaching artists honoraria.
Bringing 4-5 grades in SVSD, 200 hours of instruction, 29 classrooms, 800 students, 3,200
individual art experiences, class size 24-34, themed around Joseph de Lappe, art supplies, teaching artists honoraria.
Arts Guild
"Small but Grand” show of 8x10 canvases, gallery space/printing & reception.
"Small but Grand” show of 8x10 canvases, gallery space/printing & reception.
Art Escape
Mobile art studio (VanGogh) to Prestwood, after school with Flowery 3,4,5, Fridayafter school, Flowery Plein Air painting, SDC, paints, watercolor, acrylic, foam core, glue, pencils brush, clay, posterboard, art pens.
Mobile art studio (VanGogh) to Prestwood, after school with Flowery 3,4,5, Fridayafter school, Flowery Plein Air painting, SDC, paints, watercolor, acrylic, foam core, glue, pencils brush, clay, posterboard, art pens.
