Art Residency Program

Only outcomes to date is that 30,000 Feet has established the 12 artist who will be facilitating the residency. All of the artist who will be working in relation to this grant are artsist of color. ; 9 workshops were conducted during summer camp. The workshops are as followed:
* Mural art w Helen Peightal: Students created practice art in the classroom to creating symbols like Jean Michele Basquit to share the things that mattered most to them. Then they spent time adding those things to the outside of the Black arts and tech center
* Drumming with Jamal Saalam: Students learn the basics of beat making and working as a team to create songs to be performed at the center and in the communities in which they live.
* Spoken word with Sagirah Shahid: Students worked to learn the meanings and power of words. They created poetry and spoken words to help speak truth and inspire others to do the right thing through this art form. This workshop time was shared with DJing workshop as well because many students lacked in literacy so the task of writing poetry and spoken word was challenging for many of the youngest youth. The DJ workshop consisted of small group sessions on a dj board learning about how to please your crowd and get excitement from an audience. This was taught by Dj huh what?! our former DJ It was also replaced with Basics of drawing and Painting with Cald to Art
* Photography with Awa Mally: Students learn how to use a professional camera to take photos of one another to share the joys of being a black youth in summer camp as well as did photography to show the poor conditions in which they reside.
* Basics of drawing and painting with Kenneth Caldwell: Students learned how to use shapes to create powerful images to share with the community.
* Singing with Gary Hines the Director of Sounds of Blackness: Students learned and recorded songs from the sounds of blackness to share with the youth community.
* Arts & Crafts with Coco Caldwell: Students worked on a range of arts and craft projects to take back and to do in their homes and communities such as crown making, dream catcher making
* Beautifying and making meaning in our ceilings at 30k w/ Tegan Malon: Students choose something that was meaningful and purposeful to them in their community and painted it on ceiling tiles that are up for display at the 30k center
* From nothing to something creating art w/ Art Spring: Students did a range of projects some examples include using old boxes to make play areas (Harmony's house), puppet stages, household items for slime and more.
As we continued to offer workshops, we found that the young people enjoyed the opportunity to create more visual arts projects and doing things that allow for them to get out of their seats so we made some adjustments to workshop facilitators to accommodate the participants need, wants and desires based on the surveys. As a result students found more buy in

In the fall the following arts have and will occur:

* Stepping with Sean Burns: Students learn self-control through coordinated steps and chants to share with the community to encourage positive self-worth
* Magazine making with Teresa: Students worked with graphic design team to create mini zines to share with the community what is important to them and what they enjoyed about being a member of the 30k summer camp.
* Create posters with Bobby: Students will work with the Bobbby from the bearu to establish posters for print and sale in the community. Each poster will share something that the youth find signifacnt to the african american culture