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Klair
Miller
Grant
Writing
I
planned projects and wrote grant proposals to fund activities that
brought
over $25,000.00 in funding to my schools and
the city of
Philadelphia between 1992 and 1999. The funders included The
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Arts in Special Education Project
of Pennsylvania,
Very Special Arts USA, and Very Special Arts PA.
Grants & Awards
- 2011
- 2002
- 1999
- Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts -I proposed and received
a $5000 award to implement a multimedia project for my
students in Kindergarten through grade two using Time
as a theme.
- 1997
- Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts AIE -
I proposed and received a $10,000 award to conduct
an Artist in Residence collaboration with sculptor
Mark
Kobasz, at the Anna B. Pratt Elementary School in North
Philadelphia. I served as site coordinator and team
taught implementing a visual arts residency focusing
on The
City as a school wide subject for art expression and
academic exploration. Media included painting, drawing,
digital multimedia, wood, metal and glass.
- 1996
- 1995
- Exemplary
Art Teacher of the Year - Martha Washington Academics
Plus School, Southwest Region, Philadelphia, PA
- Murals
Reflecting Prevention - I received a Mini-Grant
to conduct projects at Pennypacker and Martha Washington
Academics Plus School. The students’ activities
resulted in a large group mural composed of may individual
mixed media squares that reflected a prevention theme
through positive self images and a personal vision
of the future. The work was chosen to represent Pennsylvania
in an exhibition on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.
- 1993
- The
Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation - Nominee
for the George Bartol Arts in Education Fellowship.
- Murals
Reflecting Prevention - I served on the
design team in Washington D.C. to develop the Murals
Reflecting
Prevention Project, which used the arts to engage students
in grades 1 through 12 in the discussion and expression
of drug prevention themes. The project was developed
by Learning Systems Group and Very Special Arts USA,
in cooperation with, and funded by the United States
Department of Education
- Exceptional
Painters II - Arts in Special Education Project
of Pennsylvania - I proposed and received a grant to
implement a multi-arts project with special education
students and
their peers at Anna B. Pratt Elementary School and the
G. W. Childs Elementary School. Students stretched canvases
and created autobiographical paintings and poems and
wrote to politicians, funders, celebrities, and artists
about
their work. The culminating event exhibited the students’ work
at Moore College of Art & Design and the Federal
Reserve Bank.
- Philadelphia
Murals Project Model Cities Grant - I acted
as liaison for Very Special Arts PA and teachers in the
Philadelphia
School District to plan and organize the project and
exhibition, "Our
Town, Philadelphia Proud" for School District of Philadelphia
students at ten school locations and art students at five
community based organizations, Prints in Progress, Taller
Puertoniqueno, Asian Americans United, Anti-Graffiti Network,
and the Minority Arts Resource Council. The exhibition
traveled from Moore College of Art & Design to The
Federal Reserve Bank and Prints in Progress.
- Dance
Conduit - I participated
in creative movement/dance artists' residency funded
by the Gratz Connection for students at Anna B. Pratt
Elementary School. Served as the faculty moderator for
the after school dance club for the core group.
- 1992
- Start
With the Arts from Very
Special Arts USA - I assisted in
the application process to bring this arts infused curriculum
and related materials developed for four to six year old
students to Anna B. Pratt Elementary School. I implemented
the visual arts component as part of the field test with
the transitional first grade.
- Exceptional
Painters - Arts
in Special Education Project of Pennsylvania - I designed,
proposed, and implemented an intensive
painting project for special education students at the Anna
B. Pratt Elementary School.
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