Forest Charter class project raises money for Nevada County artists
Submitted to The Union On a mission to teach their students about descriptive writing while guiding them to impact their community, student teacher Alicia Frost Vandevorst and teacher Michelle Litton Ogaidi organized “The Mirror Project.” They challenged their students — the sixth- through eighth-grade PACE program at Forest Charter School — to set a scene through a piece of descriptive writing, which 26 local artists then used as inspiration for pieces of art meant to reflect the students’ writing as closely as possible. Ogaidi said that, after asking the local artists for their he...
Source: theunion.com