MIGRANT EDUCATION PROGRAM 2017-2018-2019
Educational support program designed to provide teaching to migrant children of farm worker parents during the summer in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
Teaching Program through Art for Migrant Children. The program is supported with a grant by the Illinois State Board of Education and sponsored by Parkland Community College and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Objectives of the Visual Arts Program
• To provide an approach to artistic training during the summer of 2017 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois to migrant children and youth and offer them a quality educational opportunity and a space for creation that allows them to value their lifestyle.
• To allow children and youth to express their feelings by telling their stories and experiences in their constant change of address due to the farm work their parents do and how to discover through art how these stories can be recreated and imagined.
• To promote the idea of identity, creativity, collaborative work and community, these being fundamental premises for the artistic expression of each of the children and youth during the project.
• Guide students, and at the same time propose and complement their creative abilities, imaginations and ideas, so that they enjoy and discover their expressive abilities and new ways of being and interacting through art.
Workshop Dynamics
The topics or sessions of each workshop will be based on the exchange of opinions and experiences through storytelling and conversation, to then express the ideas in the form of creative artistic compositions.
A variety of materials will be available and the technical possibilities will be very open and will be determined by the needs of each work group, due to the diversity of ages and cultural characteristics.
Project Sample: Calendar
The most representative works will be selected to make a twelve-month calendar, representing a story that reveals the life process around the harvest or agricultural work carried out by the parents of migrant children.
The calendar will be the vehicle to show the reality of the experiences of migrant children to society.
The calendar will be designed when the artistic workshop sessions are being finalized, and will include the most representative works made by the project participants.
The printing and publication of the calendar will be done with the support of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) of the University of Illinois, who will also support the entire process during the workshop sessions together with Parkland College, who are the creators of the Migrant Education Program.
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