2023-2024 SRAA Grant Recipients are as follows:  

    Tara McPherson of Central School who teaches Pre-K through 12th Grade students needed to replace old, smelly paints and brushes so that students could produce quality art works. She was able to purchase a variety of name brands and a few unique paint samples as well as a variety of brushes. Student artworks this year showed much quality and improvement with good supplies.

     Brandy Ward of Berryhill Elementary School, also a grant recipient, was able to teach 4th and 5th Grade students about animal eye shapes, colors, and purposes as she incorporated STEAM lessons plans into her art sculpture projects. Each student was able to choose a glass animal eye and to create an individual modeling-type clay eye sculpture mounted on black poster board.

    Athaya Dinwiddie of Sims Middle School was a scholarship gift recipient of $400 to buy stencils and Mayco screen printing media for clay application. Her students produced some impressive and gorgeous clay pieces using a variety of underglaze colors with this newly learned decorating technique.

    Susan Pond of Gulf Breeze Elementary School asked SRAA for $200 to purchase photography supplies for her young students to learn about photographic processes, especially polaroid-type instant prints. Again, SRAA members donated the full amount to award this learning request, and students were fascinated to learn of what could be done with a Fuji Film Insta-camera.

 

Congratulations to all of these teachers and students. We are very, very impressed with all of these teachers’ and students’ learning and successes this year.

Several benefactor donations have arrived from businesses for this next SRAA year, but we still need to collect quite a bit if we want to again be able to deliver another $1,400.00 in grants for 2024-2025.

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