Art Changes

Art Changes offers a video demonstration by featured artists AND a student project based on each artist’s work. It's designed to help AUSD teachers provide visual arts instruction in their classrooms. AEF's Art Changes program was originally developed in collaboration with Rhythmix Cultural Works to provide a visual art component aligning with RCW’s PAL program.

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Each of these featured artists introduce their work, weaving into it stories of inspiration and perspective that reflect the rich diversity of the Bay Area. Each artist video is augmented by an accompanying art project instructional video. Teachers can use the videos as guides for multi-cultural discussions and art centered lesson plans in the classroom. These visual artists have generously permitted AEF to showcase their work on an ongoing basis, enabling the catalogue to grow each year as new artists and art projects are developed. Alameda school children can continue to learn and be inspired by these diverse artists.

AEF renewed focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion means that we are striving to provide our diverse body of students with representation as well as access to the different lived experiences the Bay Area has to offer.

New for 2024: New things are happening with Alameda Education Foundation’s Art Changes program! This year's theme, This is My Story, is interwoven in our 3 new artist videos. Plus we’re introducing writing by adding a poet to our set of artists. And our art projects are more sophisticated. Students will be working with watercolor for amazing results.

Our newest three artists are Alex D. da Silva , Bill Jeng and Shanti Lair Croom. Videos by Alex D. da Silva and Bill Jeng show how the artists' work tell stories that lead to understanding and give us strength. Shanti Lair Croom's electrifying reading of her poem Living Poetically inspires students to tell their stories through poetry.

Are you a teacher who has used Art Changes? If so, we'd love to hear about the impact of Art Changes in your classroom and keep you up to date on other educational opportunities. Please email us at info@alamedaeducation.org.

Meet the Artists

The student art took the form of watercolors, collage, drawings, and ceramics based on work by four Art Changes artists: blacksmith Celeste Flores, abstract painter Ken Gotuaco, children’s book illustrator Constance Moore, and ‘en plein air’ painter Claire Lau. Students created robots, planets, books and suburban landscapes.There will be a drawing to win a basket of fine art supplies! The exhibit runs through June 24, 2023.

East Bay Community FoundationThe Art Changes program is made possible by a generous grant from the Schuler-Heimburger Family Fund of the East Bay Community Foundation.

For Art Changes artists who need to upload videos, images or other documents, please click here. - https://alamedaeducationfoundation.org/for-artists/

If you need the password, please contact:

Jillian Saxty - jillian@alamedaeducation.org

Pam Riley Chang - aefpam@gmail.com