Collaboration

Within each residency, students achieve success as individual artists as well as in collaboration with fellow students.

Chesapeake Bay Life Banner Project

This 3rd and 4th grade banner project was created by integrating fourth grade Chesapeake Bay science curriculum and MD fine arts content standards.

Our focus was to identify the key components to a healthy bay, it’s floor, water and watershed. Together we identified important organisms that live in the bay’s environment and created drawings and paintings to represent them. The mural came together as a powerful depiction of the interdependence of all who live in Chesapeake Bay watershed.

More than 120 students, faculty, staff and PTA volunteers collaborated on the 14ft x 12ft artwork’s concept, design and painting.

The project is supported by


and the Fairland EC PTA

NEA report Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005.

Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005.
Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005 is the first nationwide look at artists' demographic and employment patterns in the 21st century. Artists in the Workforce analyzes working artist trends, gathering new statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide a comprehensive overview of this workforce segment and its maturation over the past 30 years, along with detailed information on specific artist occupations.

I want to share this information with everyone. It came out in June 2008 and has great information about our communities.
http://www.nea.gov/research/ResearchReports_chrono.html

I encourage your feedback and ideas for action!