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= Help Fund Lakeland Art! =

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 * || In an age where smartphones make our kids dumber and test-taking skills are prioritized above all others, Arts education has never been needed more. I see students for just 40 minutes once per week. Students spend more time in Math class for one day then Art for two weeks, more time at recess in three days than Art classes for a month. With time as a precious commodity, I need to get as much ‘bang for my buck’ as I can. As schools in neighboring districts cut funding for art programs, financial scarcities concern me more every year. Our district provides just under $2.00 per student for art supplies for the year: not enough for any class to aspire to do a true fine arts painting project. This is why I'm asking for your help to fund a Fine arts painting project with our oldest students. ||

==My Official Lakeland School District Page ==
 * ==Contact me at jswarts@lakelandsd.org ==

|| My project would fund acrylic paint supplies for all of our 6th grade students, including our autistic and Emotional Support students, to create a wet-on-wet acrylic landscape painting based on the oil painting technique of Bob Ross. This 5-week unit would occur at both Scott and Mayfield campuses and would seek to increase student artistic confidence, teach fine art painting techniques, create student interest to continue their art education. Please contact me to help in this fundraising effort. See photos of project samples. ||