By Karina Panameno | Project Leader
Attack Poverty empowers people to attack poverty in their life and community through spiritual growth, education, revitalization and basic needs.
Understanding the importance of reaching the youth, Attack Poverty began a program dedicated to the outreach of elemnetary age students. This program is called You Can Academy. Through this after school program, students are not only supported with their homework but their potential is being awakened with other subjects and components. One of those subjects being art.
Art is taught through socioemotional components to allow students various avenues to identify and express different emotions through art. This semester art is taught by local artist Corie Fairfield. Mrs. Fairfield has created a 12 week curriculm in which emotions are presented in combination or artist, art element and art principle.
One of the first emotions presented was love. Students learned about cubism through the art work of Pablo Picasso. Students were challenged to create a self portrait of how they viewed themselves. Viewing Picasso's work as abstract allowed students to accept all parts of their being as wonderfuly made.
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