{"id":4510,"date":"2015-12-08T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2015-12-11T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:57:00","slug":"green-run-collegiate-visual-art-students-partner-with-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/green-run-collegiate-visual-art-students-partner-with-penn-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Run Collegiate visual art students partner with Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green Run Collegiate (GRC) International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program Visual Art students have partnered with Penn State University in learning and leading in the <em>African Diaspora Water Crisis Curriculum<\/em> project.<\/p>\n<p>This project aims to develop and implement an arts-based high school curriculum and instructional resources in response to the global water crisis in the African Diaspora.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"688\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1.jpg 688w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a>According to water.org, 345 million people in Africa and 32 million in Latin America and the Caribbean lack adequate access to potable water.\u00a0GRC Visual Arts students traveled to Penn State University to work with Dr. Stephen Carpenter, art education professor, to study the global water crisis and create ceramic water filters.<\/p>\n<p>The students were introduced to Carpenter last year when he traveled to GRC and transformed the art room into a workroom to produce small water filters and teach art and design students about the global water crisis in our country and other areas around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"682\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a>This September, 24 IB Diploma Program Visual Art students traveled to Penn State for three days to work with Dr. Carpenter and his art education students in learning more about the crisis and understanding their role in creating change. Students also participated in classes at Penn State and met the several leaders in the fields of arts and education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"682\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/3.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/3-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/3-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a>The production, use, and implications of affordable ceramic water filters in Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Honduras will be central to the curriculum. This project is based on the premise of working collaboratively with teachers as participatory action research collaborators. GRC Visual Arts students are now working on extension projects to create awareness and action throughout their school community. Carpenter, along with\u00a0GRC IB Visual Arts teacher Erika Hitchcock, are currently developing collaborative curriculum and instructional resources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"676\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/4.jpg 676w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/4-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/4-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a>This project was made possible thanks to the\u00a0Africana Research Center\u00a0(ARC) at Penn State, which provided for its financial support. For more information about this collaborative project, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.psu.edu\/watercrisis\/\">http:\/\/sites.psu.edu\/watercrisis\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Run Collegiate (GRC) International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program Visual Art students have partnered with Penn State University in learning and leading in the African Diaspora Water Crisis Curriculum project. 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