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The young artists used their knowledge of contrasting colors in order to create a customized shoe design inspired by the works of Baltimore artist Amy Sherald and D.C. artist Clay Huffman to show what it means to be a D.C. artist.

Amy Sherald’s (Baltimore, MD) works can be found at her website below.

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Fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like

2014, 54 x 43 inches, Oil on canvas

Grand Dame Queenie

2013, 54 x 43 in, Oil on Canvas
collection: Smithsonian African American Museum

Equilibrium

2012, 100 x 67 in, Oil on Canvas
collection: US Embassy Dakar, Senegal

High Yella Masterpiece: We Ain't No Cotton Pickin' Negroes

2011, 59 x 69 inches, Oil on Canvas

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Fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like 2014, 54 x 43 inches, Oil on canvas Grand Dame Queenie 2013, 54 x 43 in, Oil on Canvas collection: Smithsonian African American Museum Equilibrium 2012, 100 x 67 in, Oil on Canvas collection: US Embassy Dakar, Senegal High Yella Masterpiece: We Ain't No Cotton Pickin' Negroes 2011, 59 x 69 inches, Oil on Canvas

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Clay Huffman, from the D.C. area, was a silkscreen artist with a studio at the Torpedo factory. Many of his prints were created in the late 80s and early 90s.

“One cheeseburger sub…to go” by Clay Huffman, silkscreen print

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KIPP DC Young Artist Gallery June 30, 2021

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KIPP DC Young Artist Gallery June 30, 2021

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All young artists were between 10 and 12 years old and practiced using contrasting colors to make shoe designs using colored pencils and glow-in-the-dark paint.

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The young artists used their knowledge of contrasting colors in order to create a customized shoe design inspired by the works of Baltimore artist Amy Sherald and D.C. artist Clay Huffman to show what it means to be a D.C. artist.

Amy Sherald’s (Baltimore, MD) works can be found at her website below.

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Fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like

2014, 54 x 43 inches, Oil on canvas

Grand Dame Queenie

2013, 54 x 43 in, Oil on Canvas
collection: Smithsonian African American Museum

Equilibrium

2012, 100 x 67 in, Oil on Canvas
collection: US Embassy Dakar, Senegal

High Yella Masterpiece: We Ain't No Cotton Pickin' Negroes

2011, 59 x 69 inches, Oil on Canvas

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Fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like 2014, 54 x 43 inches, Oil on canvas Grand Dame Queenie 2013, 54 x 43 in, Oil on Canvas collection: Smithsonian African American Museum Equilibrium 2012, 100 x 67 in, Oil on Canvas collection: US Embassy Dakar, Senegal High Yella Masterpiece: We Ain't No Cotton Pickin' Negroes 2011, 59 x 69 inches, Oil on Canvas

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Clay Huffman, from the D.C. area, was a silkscreen artist with a studio at the Torpedo factory. Many of his prints were created in the late 80s and early 90s.

“One cheeseburger sub…to go” by Clay Huffman, silkscreen print

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KIPP DC Young Artist Gallery June 30, 2021

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KIPP DC Young Artist Gallery June 30, 2021

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All young artists were between 10 and 12 years old and practiced using contrasting colors to make shoe designs using colored pencils and glow-in-the-dark paint.

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Elementary School - Designing Safe Spaces

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Elementary School - Designing Safe Spaces

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Art Objective: Young artists will use their knowledge of sculpture to create a 3D paper building inspired by the “new crayon box” in The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt, Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. The 3D building will be the young artists’ representation of a safe and welcoming space.

Read aloud (10 min): The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt, Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers

Teaching notes:

This story is about crayons that got lost, stepped on, melted, etc. and are sending postcards back to their owner to let him know how they’re doing. At the end of the story, he finds all of the crayons and realizes that they’ve changed so much, they won’t fit in the crayon box they came in. So instead of throwing them away, he creates a new “crayon box” for them, so that everyone belongs.

Guiding questions: Which crayon would you be if you could be a crayon in the story?

What kind of crayon box would you build for the lost crayons?

If you could build your own building (store, house, school, etc) that was built so everyone would be welcome, what would it look like? What would it feel like? What would it smell like?

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Using oil pastels, paper bags, pencils, paint, and construction paper, the young artists designed their own safe spaces. At the end, we remarked on how all of the safe spaces create a neighborhood where we would want to live.

These safe spaces were dance studios, art supplies stores, grocery stores, homes, etc. The young artists did an incredible job!

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A place to play the video game “Fortnite”

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A house full of love!

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A FREE pizza place

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Another FREE restaurant

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Free Hugs

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A grocery store (vegetables are in the right bottom corner)

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A neighborhood view

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A privately owned Wal-mart

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Neighbors sitting down to eat at a local restaurant

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The menu

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A Plants Shop

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Farming tools

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A house that is happy to see you

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Adjusting his house