2005 Teacher Incentive Grant Awards

This was the first year for the Teacher Incentive Grant Project funded through the Ohio Art Education Foundation. The 2005 grant recipients are Cheryl Furda and Sally Windle. A brief description of their grant projects follows.

Cheryl Furda, Art Teacher
Eagle Heights Academy
Youngstown, Ohio

Students the fourth grade will design and create a totem pole based on the culture of the Northwest Coast Indians. Students will examine totems poles and create their own personal symbol that will be added together to create a totem pole that will become a permanent installation in the school.
This is an integrated lesson that will involve collaboration with the 4th grade social studies teacher and the art teacher.

Sally Windle, Art Teacher
Lima Senior High School
Lima, Ohio

The Lima City Schools have razed former schools and built new buildings. Community landmarks are now gone. To represent the loss of these community landmarks it is our intent to design a repeatable module that is emblematic of the word school. Each module will serve as a "shrine" and be erected on the site of the building it reflects. Students and faculty will work in each of our now nine buildings, researching, discussing and writing about the lost schools, with the intent of designing and executing a shrine for each. As the shrines are installed, the community will be informed. There will be the invitation to place objects, notes, flowers "offerings" at these various shrines. As the shrines come down in late June '06, these offerings will become part of the exhibition at the Allen County Museum.