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In February, 2010, OneWorld Classrooms and muralist/teaching artist Susan Shanley will lead a team of volunteers and Ecuadorian school children in a Magical Mural project in Baños, Ecuador. The mural project will be part of OneWorld Classrooms' Amazon Rain Forest School Project. (See ABOUT THE PROJECT below for more information.) THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS YOU AND YOUR CLASS/SCHOOL MAY CONTRIBUTE OR PARTICIPATE: 1. Make a contribution! All proceeds help OneWorld Classrooms to purchase paint for the mural, art supplies for participating Amazon and Baños K-12 schools, and wish-list items (including books and art materials) for our Baños partner Fundacion Arte del Mundo's library and Rural Outreach Initiative (which brings books and literacy to rural schools surrounding Baños). We will also accept library WISH LIST items small enough to pack in our luggage. Please mail your contribution to OneWorld Classrooms, PO Box 534, N. Andover, MA 01845 or use our Make a Difference contribution form now. If using the contribution form, please note in the COMMENTS line that you would like the contribution to go to the mural/Amazon project. 2. Donate student artwork! We will distribute donated student artwork to a dozen or more K-12 schools in Baños and the Ecuadorian Amazon. Please mail your students' artwork to OneWorld Classrooms, PO Box 534, N. Andover, MA 01845. Please note: If you donate student artwork, you will NOT receive artwork in return. To receive student artwork in return, register for Canopy level participation in our Amazon Rain Forest School Project, or for our International Art Exchange (see #3 and #4 below). 3. Participate in OneWorld Classrooms' Amazon Rain Forest School Project. Participating schools will receive electronic content and interact with students in the Ecuadorian Amazon! Art, music, PowerPoint and video exchanges are available. Register here! 4. Participate in OneWorld Classrooms' International Art Exchange. We will share your student artwork with participating schools around the world (including in Baños and the Amazon) AND we will send you student artwork from around the world (including Baños and the Amazon). Register here! 5. Travel to Baños and the Amazon Rain Forest right inside your own classroom using OneWorld Classrooms' Travel & Learn Online content. Note: The Electronic Cultural Exchange Library section requires a username and password. To get yours, sign up using the small box at the top right of this or any OWC Web page. In February, 2010, OneWorld Classrooms Director Paul Hurteau will join teaching artist and muralist Susan Shanley and a team of educators and volunteers on an educational adventure to Baños, Ecuador on the edge of the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Rain Forest. Susan will lead volunteers and local students in the creation of a giant Animals of the Amazon Rain Forest mural at a local school. Meanwhile, Paul will travel with volunteers to nearby Amazon towns to involve schools in OneWorld Classrooms' Amazon Rain Forest School Project. Since 1995, artist and social worker Susan Shanley has organized more than sixty public art projects and school projects involving young people, including indoor and outdoor murals, metal sculptures, dried-bean mosaics, and textiles. Last February, Susan led a group of volunteers on a trip to El Salvador where her team worked with 200+ local students to create a 260' mural featuring the animals of Central America. Back home, Susan has worked on mural projects with teachers and students at schools across New York State. Her murals celebrate the cultures of the Native peoples of the Northeastern US, the creatures of the ocean and the animals of the Amazon Rain Forest! Visit Susan's Mural Gallery for photos of some of these incredible mural projects. Learn more about Susan's Arts in Education mural projects in New York State here. You can also read more about the El Salvador mural project in this blog entry from the Albany, NY Times Union's Web site. WHY MURALS? OneWorld Classrooms believes in the transforming power of art to create dynamic educational connections between people of different world regions. Susan's mural projects involve hundreds of local students and community members in a memorable and long-lasting community beautification initiative. The project also spotlights and supports local educational efforts, builds cross-cultural awareness and educates students in both Americas about the world around them and the people who share it with them.
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