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• National Endowment for the Arts grant

• June 19-26, 2011

• Goal: To develop educators’ ability to teach more authentically about West African art

• Participants studied with traditional Ghanaian artisans

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Bringing the artists and their traditional techniques to the USA

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Daily studio work

Community open house

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Exit survey and reflection

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• Authentic African Restaurants

• Trip to Cincinnati Art Museum

• African Drumming

• Lectures/video presentations

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Application in the classroom

• Taught unit plan on West African Art with 2nd grade

• Discussed Kente weaving, purpose of Kente cloth, how it is made, overview of the history and culture of the Asante people in Ghana

• Math, poetry/literature connections, real-world connections

• connected to Colonial African-American Folk Art and Contemporary Folk Artist Nick Cave

• culminating at the Cincinnati Art museum

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Reflection. . . . teacher comments

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