The mission of the Anyone Can Fly Foundation, Inc. is to expand the art establishment's canon to include artists of the African Diaspora and to introduce those artists and art traditions to kids as well as adult audiences.
To achieve our goal the Art with Kids Grant for Elementary Schools is offering awards to teachers, teaching parents or graduate students who will present a three lesson art appreciation program at a designated Host Elementary School.
New this year, Trish Maunder, Project Director, 2005 African-American Timeline of Art History, along with the Anyone Can Fly Foundation is providing Art With Kids Grant Recipients with teacher's kits for use at Host Elementary Schools. From Harlem to the Classroom: The Art of African-American Masters for Elementary and Middle School Kids will contain teaching materials on Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, and Jacob Lawrence including slides, teaching posters and posterettes, and lesson plans. These kits remain the property of the Anyone Can Fly Foundation.
- A slide lecture with Q & A (included in the Foundation Art Teaching Kit);
- Art making workshop limited to no more than 25 students (included in the Foundation Art Teaching Kit)
- A group trip so that the children can see the Master Artist's original works at a museum or art gallery (organized by the 2006 Art With Kids Grant Recipient).
The award consists of $600.00 for the slide lecture, art making workshop, and museum trip presentation on any one of the featured Master Artists; $1,000.00 for presentations on two of the featured Master Artists; $1,400.00 for presentations on three; and if a 2007 Art With Kids Grant Recipient completes presentations on all four Master Artists, the total award will be $1,800.00.
An additional stipend of up to $200.00 is available for miscellaneous expenses and supplies upon presentation of receipts. This year the Art With Kids Program may be presented to up to 4 approved host elementary schools for a maximum total of $8000.00. The dates of presentation are from September 2007 - May 2007.
The Art With Kids Grant program focuses on those African American artists born on or before 1920 whose careers began on or before 1940, and whose contributions to the visual arts have been summarily dismissed by the mainstream establishment of art history. Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, and Jacob Lawrence are a few of the artists this program supports. The Grantee, Host school and Art museum for the 2007 grant period must be located within the Metropolitan New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania Tri-State Area.
Applicants for Foundation grants are selected without respect to their race, creed or color. Materials will not be returned. To check on the status of your application please email enquiries@anyonecanflyfoundation.org.
