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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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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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