Exciting work has been going on at PAST and all of our buildings as we explore what 2012 has to offer. In December we were generously awarded a grant from the Women's Fund of Central Ohio (check out their site and see all of the 2012 projects they support: http://www.womensfundcentralohio.org/) to fund our Girls Empowerment Mural(GEM) Program. This program will have students design and manage a community based mural program within the Linden Area. To kick off our introduction to murals and community based art The Ohio State University Art Education Department generously offered to invite Mural Artist and Educator Olivia Gude to help share her expertise and experience with our teachers and community partners. We came together at the newly renovated Linden McKinley STEM Academy on Saturday February 3, 2012 to explore the space as well as begin possible mural ideas to share with our schools and the Linden community. This was a phenomenal experience as we heard Gude speak to the notion "Teachers who instruct...through collaborative public art projects understand that, while it is true that people are shaped by their environments, it is also true that people have the capacity to alter and change environments, and thus to be reshaped themselves." It was a wonderful day and a great catalyst in brainstorming ways to share with our students that they can be agents of change in their communities through thoughtful creation of space!
Teachers and community members came together to brainstorm and share ideas on beginning our collaborative mural program.
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