The Collage as Storyteller Project-Teacher Feedback

The Visual Literacy Program was a success because of the commitment of individuals from Preservation LINK, Inc., the Gantt Center, University Park and Bruns Academy. Teachers reported that they were able to connect the Collage as Storyteller curriculum to content that they were teaching their students in their classroom. As one teacher reported, “Using the art work to find facts and inferences ties into our Literacy Curriculum. This project taught students to discern fact from opinion as well as not just create, but explain what they have created and why.”

“The students who participated in the program have loved and looked forward to each session. The teachers have described feeling re-energized by the sessions!”

“Students are well behaved when engaged. There are students who persistently call out, get over stimulated, and don’t stop their work. But this program leveled down these behaviors.”

“In the art curriculum, for fourth graders, students must be able to identify objects and items, create questions, criticize an idea, and make inferences, along with being exposed to resources and artist in North Carolina and the surrounding environment. THANK YOU, THIS whole program was based on achieving
these objectives. I am so humble to have these students be part of this program. It gives them an extended level of learning by participating in an integrative project. There was also another level of reading and writing that was beneficial to students’ core curriculum.” 









“Arts education should be a viable part of each child's education - it informs, it transforms and exposes students to the world around them.”
                                                            -Principal