Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant

Though he shows nationally and internationally Adam works and lives in Cloquet on a small organic farm and this is the perfect opportunity to bring a community-based system of education into the school. Adam's children are both enrolled in the Cloquet School District, one of which goes to CMS. Adam has been involved in community art shows at the Pine Knot newspaper and County Seat Theater in Cloquet and is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT with the Cloquet Area Fire District. Adam has also been a guest artist at the Bee Friendly Corridor Festival in Cloquet and Pollinator Awareness Campaign in Carlton, MN for the past four years. Most recently he created a mural in Lincoln Park Duluth about manoomin (wild rice) restoration efforts in the St. Louis River Estuary in collaboration with Fond Du Lac Natural Resources and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Outcomes will be satisfied. -875+ Students will learn about pollinators from Carlton Soil and Water. -875+ Students will learn about pollinators from Northeast Minnesota Beekeepers Association. -875+ Students will learn about healthy foods and community gardens from Fond du Lac Bimaaji'idiwin Ojibwe Garden Program. -875+ Students will work with Adam Swanson to sketch, ideate and collaborate on mural imagery ideas. -875+ Students will work with Adam Swanson to compose a collaborative mural that integrates their collective thinking. -875+ Students will prepare, create and paint a mural in collaboration with Adam Swanson. -875+ Students will contribute unique painterly work on sections of Polytab in school Art rooms that will later be assembled into one cohesive mural. -Community members will contribute painting to Polytab mural sections outside of school day and will help assemble finished mural in final outdoor location. -Event will celebrate student learning and finished mural.