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These materials will allow us to create a one week out-of-the-classroom arts learning experience for 18 students in alternative photography techniques. We will go out shooting all over the city of Boston at museums, parks, and historic sites. We will then return to classrooms to process our photos into unique pieces of art. A chemistry teacher will lead our students in processing digital images into negatives and then printing the negatives using cyanotypes. An English teacher will lead our students in editing, printing, and transferring images onto wood panels. A Special Education teacher will lead students in taking classic Polaroid-style instant prints, then removing the emulsion layer and lift printing the emulsion to watercolor paper. Your donation has the power to transform our classrooms into STEAM studio spaces. We will be using donated digital cameras, phone cameras, and our school's laptops and free software for editing. Your donation will provide the other supplies we need: an inkjet printer and cartridges, photo paper and transparencies, materials for the surfaces we will print on (wood, watercolor paper, cyanotype paper), gel medium and fixitive, instant cameras and film. Our students have limited exposure to arts education, but this one week hands-on experiential project will help fill the gap. If funded, all of our students will be able to take home pieces of original art. We have included two frames for each student in our request, so that each student may have a finished piece of their own and a finished piece to proudly share with their family.
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