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
