P-4247

Smart Art Peace through Art

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Financing

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History Logs

Project Description

Country: USA

Location: Chicago IL

Total Budget: $20,000

Areas of Focus: Peacebuilding and conflict prevention, Basic education and literacy

Activity Type: Peace: General

Summary: Bring art into the lives of poor Chicago school children followed by personal instruction regarding the art and peace through art


The project brings children to the Alfred Smart Museum on the University of Chicago campus. The children are conducted through the museum by docents bringing the story of the pieces to life. Teaching artists then conduct six one-hour sessions, over six weeks in the classrooms. These sessions use art to bring a message of hope and peace to the children through the art instruction. The children are brought back to the museum, seeing the art with their new eyes and ideas of peace. They are allowed to display their own art in the lobby and their parents are welcome.

We hope to be back in classrooms in the fall. There is concern about our ability to bring the children to the classrooms or teaching artists to the classrooms. The pandemic has caused us to work with the U of C We are currently adapting the curricula to allow virtual visits to the museum and virtual visits by the teaching artists.

This will ultimately allow us to develop a program that is self-contained and able to used in other museums. Peace Art in a box. This is a program which will allow art museum across the globe to use local cultural art into classrooms of children in need in any country with a Rotary Clubs.

The costs to bring the children to the museum twice and six one-hour sessions with lunch after the second visit is $85 to $100 depending on the cost of the busses and art supplies. The U of C is helping to develop the virtual program and the Peace Art in a Box program. We hope to bring up to 10 classrooms, roughly 230 children into the program in the 2022/2023 school year.

Project Contact Person

District: 6450

Rotary Club of: Chicago Financial District

Primary Contact: Cliff Harstad

Email: c.harstad@gozdel.com

Project Status

Completed
This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners.

Project listed for the 2022-23 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Chicago Financial District (6450)

7-May-22

$19,247

$753

$20,000

Total

$19,247

$753

$20,000

Project Supporting Documents

Project Photos

History Log Entries

6-May-22

System Entry

System Entry: Creation of project page.

7-May-22

by Rachel Ossyra

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

16-Jul-22

by Gerald McIlvain

This project takes place during the school year. We do not expect significant expenses to be incurred until after September 2022 and perhaps after 1/1/2023.

9-Aug-22

System Entry

System Entry: Project signed by Gerald McIlvain.

16-Aug-22

System Entry

System Entry: Project signed by Cliff Harstad.

17-Aug-22

by Karen Swinger

System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee.

21-Sep-22

by Ed Graziano

System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.

29-Mar-23

by Rachel Ossyra

System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded.

14-Apr-23

by Bill Lyman

Stewardship review is complete. Meets all necessary criteria. Final report reviewed. Project okay to be approved by District Approval Committee. WL/LG

14-Apr-23

by Bill Lyman

Stewardship review is complete. Meets all necessary criteria. Final report reviewed. Project okay to be approved by District Approval Committee. WL/LG

14-Apr-23

by Bill Lyman

Stewardship review is complete. Meets all necessary criteria. Final report reviewed. Project okay to be approved by District Approval Committee. WL/LG

14-Apr-23

by Rachel Ossyra

System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.

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