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Student Voice Revealed
Student Voice Revealed

“Equality is my main thing.”

Maria Castro is in the seventh grade at Hamilton Grange Middle School and a participant in Creative Art Works in-school digital art program, where she has been creating posters that promote social justice issues that matter to her. Maria says her opinions have been shaped by her family and her teachers, but she has also been influenced by the social upheaval happening around the world in recent years.

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empowerment, graphic arts, in-school, middle school, mixed media, Multimedia, public speaking, social justiceBrian RicklinCreative Art Workart education, Art, arts, girl power, DOE, Harlem, interview, youth development, youth voice, BLM, in-school, HGMS, Hamilton Grange, middle school, Mark Levine, student, student voice, pixlr, remote, arts education
Art and Culture Meet at Crossroads of the World
Art and Culture Meet at Crossroads of the World

“During ‘turn and talk,’ it’s natural for students to share about their cultures. Sometimes it’s just a little thing, like the word for a color in their language. Other times, they might talk about the ways customs and traditions are different in their country, or maybe not too different. They learn a lot from each other.”

— Teaching Artist Fabio Puentes

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after-school, Out-of-school-time, primary education, cultural immigrantBrian RicklinP.S. 88 Senecaart education, Art, arts, art, Community, diversity, DOE, empathy, galebrewer, Manhattan, Queens, is93 queens, ps88 queens, hamilton heights, NYC, nycdca, OST, out-of-school, primary, primary education, cultural immigrant initiative, ecuador, CAW4kids, creativeartworks, tughra, tigua, juliotoquiza, islam, spain, hispanic
The Trifecta
The Trifecta

According to a study by the Wallace Foundation, middle school students say they want three things from an art program: they want to learn real skills from real teaching artists in a real art space. Last fall, Creative Art Works hit the trifecta at two after-school programs in The Bronx. Students at MS 45 created their own comic book characters in the Cartooning and Anatomy class, while students at IS 254 explored a variety of techniques in a formal drawing class. Both these semester-long programs were taught by CAW Teaching Artists and offered a deep dive into a single subject.

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