Arts Learning
ACHF Arts Education
The quantitative outcomes proposed are that five Artist Mentors will work with 60 middle school students assisted by ten High School interns with a final Community Showcase attended by an audience of 250+ at Hope Academy. The qualitative outcomes are that students discover their creative potential, reach the learner objectives set for each class, create an original work of art from their own unique perspective and show growth in artistic ability, experience, and self-confidence. Quantitative outcomes will be measured by program class/intern/Artist Mentor count and Community Showcase audience count. Qualitative outcomes will be measured by Showcase participation and presentation, pre and post student program evaluations, parent/guardian evaluations, and program team evaluations that include input from Artist Mentors, Hope Staff and teacher assistants.
We reached our intended community as outlined. The diversity of the South Minneapolis/Phillips Neighborhood was reflected by students, interns, and by the 250+ family members and friends attending the Showcase. This continues to be an underserved population of the Twin Cities and Hope Academy has a great need but very few resources for arts programming. Inverted Arts was able to provide quality tools and training by a group of professional and diverse Artist Mentors and put them into the hands of the student participants so they could discover their own creative voices. Our outreach efforts did result in a celebration of community diversity. Student creative voices and stories reflected their own unique perspectives. Evaluation results show positive increases in student creative confidence and self-image. Empowered students in will impact their diverse community through their new-found confidence, creativity and expanded creative dreams. Student creativity affects their families, friends and their interactions with the community. The families and community are affected as they attended the Showcase Celebration and by their presence affirming the value, talent and creative potential of students. We met our accessibility goals with the program was open and accessible to every middle school student at Hope Academy, with a wide range of artistic experiences, a convenient time slot in conjunction with Hope’s Summer Session, free of charge, and transportation and lunches included. Hope Academy’s facility is fully ADA accessible. Over 250 family and friends attended the Showcase celebrating the achievements of 65 middle school students and 10 high school interns with 5 Artist Mentors hosting the event. Student pre/post evaluations showed an increase in every area including a 30% increase in the question about artistic confidence! 100% of the parent/guardian evaluations rated the program’s effectiveness as 5 out of 5!
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