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Art Aware Newsletter
#5 (2000)
Art Aware
1701 South 4th Street
Camden, NJ 08014
(609) 365-0831
artaware@hotmail.com
Student Calendars |
Camden children need to be
acknowledged
tor the good work that they do!
The 2001 Peace Calendar
of Camden
students' artwork is in production. In December, ten thousand copies
will
be distributed to every public and private elementary school classroom
in Camden, government offices, businesses, supermarkets, churches,
students,
parents, citizens, etc.
Plans are underway to
collaborate
with Rutgers University and the American Association of University
Women
for Art Aware classes and trips for elementary school children in the
fall.
Dr. John Giannotti,
Chairman of the
Fine Arts Department of Rutgers will introduce the Calendar with a
letter
stating how visual art in Camden contributes to peace in students'
lives
and to the life of the city itself!
The following is a brief
summary
of Art Aware activities from 7/1/99 to 6/30/00:
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Art Aware Peace
Calendars - 1)
10,000 Y2K Calendars produced and distributed, 2) interaction with 30
public
& private Camden elementary schools for 2001 Calendar contest, 3)
2001
Calendar artwork chosen, layout completed.
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Art Aware classes
- for approximately
2,000 students at public and private elementary schools, after-school
and
summer recreation sites.
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Art Aware sponsored
trips - for
750 students to various sites including: 1) Philadelphia Museum of Art,
2) Camden Children's Garden at the N.J. State Aquarium, 3) Camden
Neighborhood
Renaissance Arts Festival.
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Aware exhibitions of
students' artwork
- (approx. 2,500 pieces) and student photos (approx. 500) at various
sites
including: 1) elementary schools, 2) City Hall, 3) NJ State Aquarium
and
Camden Children's Garden, 4) UMDNJ (Univ. of Medicine & Dentistry
of
NJ), 5) Camden Neighborhood Renaissance Arts Festival, 6) Camden
Housing
Authority headquarters and recreation sites, 7) South Jersey Performing
Arts Center, 8) Blockbuster Sony E-Centre, 9) Campbell Soup Foundation,
10) L-3 Communications, 11) Camden Pathmark Supermarket.
After ten years, Art Aware
is finally
being recognized as a creative influence in the schools, in the lives
of
Camden children and in the community. Camden's face is changing and Art
Aware and all of its supporters can take some of the credit.
Residents, young and old,
and visitors
are smiling because, through Art Aware, they know some of the positive
accomplishments of Camden children and their wonderful artwork!
Copyright © 2001-2004 Art
Aware.
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17 April 2001, Updated 19 August
2004
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