Crescent City Art Project
 
 
 



Our mission is to transform school landscapes from mundane environments to ones of color, art and education by way of engaging individuals in service.

We envision communities being aesthetically enhanced through artistic expression that embraces culture, individuality and pride for one’s community; ultimately proffering an ownership and respect for ones’ surroundings.

Our images encapsulate the essence of the environments in which they are created. Our community partners and volunteers are the sole beneficiaries and therefore the focus of our work.

Currently in New Orleans there are 81 schools open; serving 32,149 students.* Some schools are in old buildings, while others are operating out of a series of trailers called a modular campus. In both cases there is a distinct need to enhance these environments with color, art and educational images. Crescent City Art Project will serve both models.

However, our initial focus will be on modular campuses as our past experience has shown these projects to be an immense need and a great impact through one day projects.

* Source: Greater New Orleans Community Data Center,
www.gnocdc.org

 
 
 
 
 
Modular Schools

The modular campus typically consists of white trailers lined with gravel surrounded by high chain link fences; a picture that reminiscent of a prison yard. We plan to add visual stimuli thru our “Paint the Change” program. This program will infuse these drab campuses with colorful, cultural murals on canvass and wood panels, as well as educational sidewalk murals and mosaics.

Over the next two years we will engage our non-profit partners to transform schools in this way. Most of the art that we create is portable and thus able to be brought to non-modular schools as they are renovated, rebuilt and reopened. This model has been tested and proved successful at Carver Elementary, Carver High School and Fannie C. Williams Elementary School.
 
 
Annual Service Days:

At a frequency to be determined, Crescent City Art Project will engage volunteers in annual service days, such as “Paint the Change.”  These events will be dedicated to celebrating the talent of many local young artists and to transforming a campus from a blank canvas to a visually stimulating, education rich environment.  The ultimate goal is to enhance the school’s identity and the pride of the student body.

 

 

 


Complete List of Schools

 

Albert Wicker Lit. Academy

Banneker Elementary School

Bauduit

Booker T. Washington

Central City E.O.C.

Clark High School 

Craig Elementary

Carver High

Carver Elementary

Dibert School

Dryades School

Fannie C Williams

Frederick A Douglass H.S.

Gregory School 

H.C. Schaumburg Elem

Habans School

Harney School 

James Weldon School

Julian School

L. E. Rabouin  School

Kipps Carrollton

Kipps Royal

Marie Henderson

Singleton High 

Sylvanie F. Williams

Walter L. Cohen H.S

Warren Easton School

Welcome Middle School

 

 

 

 

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