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Our Programs I Made It Myself – Building Self-Esteem through Art
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Teen Mentoring Program - Video Visions, Graphic Design Foster Pride connects teens in foster care with professionals in creative industries through our Teen Mentoring Program. We provide a place for teens to push their creativity to the limits with supportive adults who set high standards for achievement and hands-on guidance to help them achieve their goals.
For young people in foster care who do not have family support, we help guide them through the difficult and dangerous transition to adulthood. With Foster Pride’s help, many are finding a successful future. One of the students who received guidance through our Teen Mentoring Program was accepted at Parsons The New School for Design and graduated in 2006. He is now living in his own apartment and working as a graphic designer. Find out about other Foster Pride Success Stories. |
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Enrichment Program - Scholarships Foster Pride's Enrichment Program provides scholarships to private art classes for talented and dedicated young artists. Students who exhibit strong interest in a specific medium or technique are nominated by their social worker, caseworker, birth parent, foster parent, or Foster Pride teacher. Foster Pride interviews candidates, and finds a local organization with suitable art programs. Foster Pride makes all arrangements for private classes, and provides materials and transportation. Recent scholarships have provided the following opportunities for young people:
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Special Projects and Partnerships Whitney Museum of American Art – Visual Literacy Project A recent collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art helped Foster Pride teachers learn to help students develop literacy skills through the arts. For youth in care who are often two to three years behind grade level, Foster Pride’s Visual Literacy Project provides an opportunity to develop skills needed to succeed in the classroom. Foster Pride teachers attended a series of professional development opportunities in which they learned strategies for using works of art and visual literacy techniques in their Foster Pride classes. The lessons in these programs are designed to support The New York City Department of Education’s Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Visual Arts: Strand 2; Literacy in the Arts, Strand 3; Making Connections, and Strand 4, Community and Cultural Resources. The Door – Summer Culture and Express Yourself! In Summer 2007, Foster Pride teachers expanded upon the successes of this project with Summer Culture, a collaborative program with The Door. Affiliated with University Settlement, the oldest settlement house in the United States, The Door offers comprehensive educational, health, nutritional and counseling programs for youth ages 12-21, including specialized programs for youth in foster care. Youth in Foster Pride’s Summer Culture program participated in an 8-week program during which they visited many of NYC’s most exciting cultural institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Students worked with Foster Pride educators to develop skills in both art-making and literacy. A new collaboration, Express Yourself, gives teens an opportunity to explore issues addressed by contemporary art and respond creatively through their own art making. School of Visual Arts Graduate Art Therapy Department – Make Art! for teens who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Foster Pride takes every opportunity to respond to the needs of the ever-changing foster care community. When a long-time collaborator closed down its group home for Deaf and hard of hearing teens in care, Foster Pride partnered with the School of Visual Arts Graduate Art Therapy Department to provide a space where former housemates could gather to make art, and reclaim their connection to their community. Foster Pride teachers and SVA Graduate Students collaboratively teach the monthly art classes, which help students express themselves positively and creatively through the arts. Green Chimneys – Creative Writing When a caseworker at Green Chimneys, a group residence for LGBTQ teens in foster care, saw interest and talent in writing in the youth in her residence, she called on Foster Pride to help. Foster Pride developed and implemented a creative writing program for these budding young writers to help them develop writing skills and express themselves |
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Student Art Show: Fostering Pride in the Community Each year, Foster Pride takes our young artists to the next level of feeling pride in themselves and their achievements—by exhibiting their artwork in a professionally-presented gallery show. Artwork is framed and mounted and invitations showcasing student work go out to the children, their parents, foster parents, agency workers and the press. Foster Pride arranges transportation to the show for the children and their families, where they see their work on display and attend a celebratory opening reception with refreshments and entertainment. Through these annual exhibitions, Foster Pride students get a taste of the pride and recognition professional artists enjoy when their work goes on view in a public space. These exhibitions are the culmination of the year’s activities and are a chance for students to share their achievements with parents, teachers, and the larger museum-going public.
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